When Phil Cook found himself living alone in the North Carolina woods, he returned to the piano — his first instrument — working through loss, grief and the promise of new possibilities.

The band’s maximalist tendencies have been reined in, their Siouxsie-Sioux-gone-Black-Sabbath vibes boiled down and seasoned with deathrock influences that encompass both the rangy punkishness of ...

J’Nai Bridges will perform the world premiere of “Everything Hurts,” a musical setting of poet Amanda Gorman’s “Hymn for the ...