Anthony Pirog's The Hunger Artist is a sprawling, bold opus that defies easy categorization. This sonic collision of jazz, rock, and experimental music is a semi-chaotic beauty that rewards the ...

When Anthony Pirog describes what changes when saxophonist James Brandon Lewis joins his avant-noise-jazz trio the Messthetics onstage, he talks about space. "It gives me the ability to stop playing, ...

Anthony Pirog, who you may know as the one third of The Messthetics who wasn’t in Fugazi, will release a new solo album, Nepenthe Series Vol. 1, on November 11 via Otherly Love. All but one of the ...

Seasoned musicians Joe Lally and Brendan Canty, who first found fame with the legendary hardcore Washington, D.C., outfit Fugazi, now make up the rhythm section of The Messthetics. They’re joined by ...

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The gritty, jammy sonics of the leadoff title track quickly convince the listener that avant guitarists Joel Harrison and Anthony Pirog are hellbent on getting it all out of their systems on The Great ...

2024 NYC Winter Jazzfest Announces Final Lineup For 20th Anniversary Season by A.A. Cristi - January 05, 2024 NYC Winter Jazzfest has announced the complete list of artists to be featured at the 20th ...

Guitarist, composer, and loops experimenter Anthony Pirog, whom you may know as a member of the Messthetics along with ex-Fugazi members Joe Lally and Brendan Canty, has announced a new album, ...

Anthony Pirog and Wayne Horvitz have never played together — in fact, they’ve never even met. “I’m definitely a fan of his, but I don’t know how he got my email,” D.C. guitarist Pirog says of ...

Music is a series of conversations. It’s a dialogue of moments and movements, in harmony or dissonance with what came before, after or simultaneously. It’s also the exchanges between players on a ...

Joe Lally and Brendan Canty hadn’t performed together in 15 years — the exact amount of time they’d spent as the bassist and drummer in Fugazi, one of punk rock’s most influential bands of the 1980s ...