CH25: Kathleen Supové

The NYC performance artist who’s radically reinventing the piano recital

Photos of flaming grand pianos and vintage uprights smashed to smithereens. YouTube clips of Liberace sledgehammering his ivories on “The Monkees” variety hour. Kathleen Supové gets a kick out of all of it, and thanks you very much, friends and fans, for sending them her way. But her “Exploding Piano” pieces aren’t quite that literal. The contemporary pianist blows up conventions of the instrument’s uses …

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A stunning video from Seinabo Sey, new music from New Order and more in this week's musical round-up

New Order: Restless It’s safe to say that much of the dance music we listen to today wouldn’t exist without the ’80s influence of New Order. The group took a genre to soaring heights with bold, charged music. New Order has released a new single, “Restless,” that takes their impeccable song-crafting to the present day. Catchy and clearly New Order, the thoughtfully upbeat track offers …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Test riding the hoverboard, digital detox, an alien voiced by Kathleen Hanna and more in this week's look around the web

1. A 390-Year-Old Bonsai Tree that Survived an Atomic Bomb Washington DC’s National Arboretum will honor its oldest artifact this week: a 390-year-old bonsai tree from Japan. But perhaps more impressive than its age is the tree’s history—which was fortuitously revealed in 2001. The miniature white pine is actually a survivor of the 9,700-pound atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima and was quietly donated to the …