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Advertising In the Before Times, the Fulford Arms in York was an always-busy kind of place. This pub in the north of England would generally put on around 250 shows a year in its dedicated live-music space. It’s a classic stop on the UK’s indie touring circuit, and the place to go in this part of the country if you want to catch the latest British guitar band tipped to make it big. But then came Covid. Like countless other music venues around the world, the Fulford...

Tamara L. Smith Alejandro Morales, a drummer with the Chicago punk trio Running who also played with other experimental noise groups, died Jan. 3 while visiting his family in Puerto Rico, where he grew up. He was 46. The cause of death wasn’t disclosed. Ben Billington, a musician and friend of Mr. Morales, said he remembers seeing him play with Running when the group was first making a name for itself, playing seven- to eight-minute sets at DIY spots across the city. The group played so har...

Advertising It only took a few days for the live music industry to grind to a halt in March, as venues throughout the world closed their doors and summer festivals were canceled in response to a virus that spreads when people are in close contact with one another. Nearly nine months later, instead of packing in shoulder to shoulder at the Empty Bottle or Metro, we’re still logging on to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and other streaming platforms to watch bands perform. For the foreseeable futu...

The performer is back with two very different albums, one released under the Sparkle Division. Andrew Dansby December 22, 2020Updated: December 22, 2020, 2:53 pm Electronic music pioneer William Basinski Photo: Danilo Pellegrinelli William Basinski entered 2020 with big plans. He’d just released an album the year prior, the well-received “On Time Out of Time,” which found him collaborating with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory to turn the sound of two mergin...

George Becker In a lot of ways, shopping is a cathartic experience for people. It usually provides a short burst of endorphins when you make a purchase for something that you like. And, when you’re feeling down a day at the mall can really lift those endorphins so you can get back to normal. The problem with that is that it can lead to a lot of unseen social ills that take on a life of their own. For instance, there is a lot of sweatshop labor used to make many of the clothes we wear so they ...