Tortoiseshell Music Home of composer Nathan Curtis

Kyle Gann's blog at ArtsJournal. Kyle is a multi-faceted musician and scholar: a composer of post-minimalist/totalist music; a musicologist specializing in contemporary music, particular of the "Downtown" variety; and former music critic for the Village Voice. In this blog, he covers a wide variety of topics concerning "postclassical" music -- his favored term for what might be called "classical music" these days, if the term had not become increasingly unusable. A lot of my recent aesthetic tendencies, particularly in terms of rhythmic conceptions, have come from reading his articles.

Matthew Guerrieri is a composer and performer living in the Boston area, who also does freelance reviews for the Globe and other publications. He blogs on a wide variety of musical topics, and offers some very informed economic analyses of various trends in the music world, but I would be utterly remiss in my duties if I did not mention his sporadic but wonderful comic strip, "Strauss and Mahler Re-Enact Your Favorite Movie Moments".

Alex Ross is the music critic for The New Yorker, and author of the wonderful book The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. Here, he increases his scope, documenting his travels, unearthing old nuggets, and reporting on events throughout the classical music world. Also, he has pictures of his cats.