Gimme some of that ol’ atonal music. It lingers in my ears! Schoenberg and Alban Berg were the genre’s pioneers. Keep your Bach and Chopin, they’re melodic and passe. Gimme some of that ol’ atonal ...

I vaguely remember the first Atonal back in 1982. Apparently I performed at it with my band Die Unbekannten. I only know this because I still have the flyer. Dimitri “Leningrad” Hegemann had ...

I can imagine readers thinking to themselves what a nonsensical title this post bears – atonal music as a model for democracy? Really? What possible connection could there be? And yet, someone ...

• Johnny Weir is pretty wonderful, and he embraces his individuality with a kind of fearlessness that has always impressed me. But even knowing those things about him, I was really moved by the ...

A plan to use ‘hostile’ music to clear the homeless from the city’s S-Bahn trains has been forced off the rails by concerned musicians When it was announced that atonal music would be played in Berlin ...

"Audiences Hate Modern Classical Music Because Their Brains Cannot Cope": an arresting headline from London's Sunday Telegraph. This is the argument of a new book, "The Music Instinct" by Philip Ball: ...