Pitchfork — Photo by Kathryn Yu What are your kids doing this weekend? Climbing trees? Playing Wii Tennis? Still shaking their Easter candy hangovers? Tell them to knock it off! It's time for the Thurston Moore noise lecture! As Paper reports (via Moore's own Ec... more info

Pitchfork — Photos by Tim Kiernan; Above: The xx Last year, at the first Big Ears music festival in Knoxville, Tenn., Jon Hassell headlined the opening Friday night at the Bijou Theatre, then the event's largest venue. Despite two balconies and the twin overhead... more info

Pitchfork — Artist: Awesome ColorAlbum: Massa HypnosRelease Date: April 6Label: Ecstatic Peace Tracklist: 01 Transparent02 Flying03 Oaxaca04 White Cloud05 Vision06 Zombie07 Slaughterhouse08 IOU Notes: Third album from this Brooklyn-via-Detroit garage-psych band,... more info

Guardian Music — The city's most vibrant sounds are being made by a ragged breed of pan-generational improvisers producing free-jazz fire musicEven now, New York remains one of the spiritual homes of jazz. It's a reputation based on black and white images of cigarett... more info