This week's Q2 Music Mixtape comes courtesy of Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, whose debut record Rhízōma was released late last year on Innova. Tune in today at 3 pm for a playlist that ranges from Kaija Saariaho to Japanese composer pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto.

This week on Hammered! we hear five consecutive cases of works that require an extended temporal space to achieve a more slowly evolving mode of expression. Otherwise put: works that last the full duration of each episode.

A child of the MTV generation, music and video will forever be tied together for Nadia Sirota. This week on her show, a look at pieces that have either been adapted visually or incorporate a visual element in performance.

This week, a visit with the NOW Ensemble's pianist Michael Mizrahi, whose solo recording "The Bright Motion" is our Album of the Week and available this month.

For Mixtapes, we ask artists to assemble an hour of new music that they find particularly compelling. Today's comes courtesy of composer, guitarist and trumpet player Rhys Chatham.

This week on the New Canon, we take an in-depth look at our Album of the Week, the first volume of Danish composer Rued Langgaard's string quartets courtesy of the Nightingale String Quartet for Dacapo Records.

This week on Hammered! we explore the mountains of chamber music that includes piano(s), or, otherwise put, music for piano+. Hear music from Thomas Ades, Ezequiel Vinao, Benjamin Broening and many more. 

It’s that time again! Tuesday marks the beginning of our Spring pledge drive. As you’ve probably noticed, we’re making some pretty rad changes over here at Q2. We’ve brought you more hosts, more weekly programs, more live events, more streaming albums and more mobile listening, and we’d LOVE to continue this rad trajectory, but we simply cannot do this without your help!

Today's mixtape comes courtesy of Los Angeles-based experimental singer/songwriter Julia Holter, whose recent album Ekstasis is itself as much "new music" as it is "indie rock."

This week on The New Canon, we spin our Album of the Week, John Luther Adams's Songbirdsongs, in its entirety, along with newly minted material from Rihm, Dufallo and more. 

Yep, it’s that time again! Time to explore the placed between notes, the tunings that have existed on earth before we even existed, the non-Western-oriented, and the just plain weird. This week, my show will be lousy with microtones!

Did you know that Stephen Sondheim was a pupil of Milton Babbitt? Or that Cage studied with Schoenberg? This week we tease out the often unexpected musical relationships between some of the last century's greatest pedagogues and their students.