Around Valentine's Day, music has the tendency to degenerate into trite love songs and Kenny G Hallmark-inspired drivel so wimpy that even the guys responsible for elevator music cover their ears.

With bassoonist Rachael Elliott and percussionist Thomas Kozumplik on temporary hiatus, Clogs pares down to a duo, leaving guitarist Bryce Dessner and violinist/violist Padma Newsome as the driving ...

As Clogs head west for a date at Café Du Nord in San Francisco Monday, Aug. 25 with provocative singer-songwriter Mia Doi Todd, composer Newsome grants the logic of the post-rock comparisons. Speaking ...

Behind today’s indie-rock curtain, crossover classical bands like Clogs have been shattering musical barriers by orchestrating instru-mental arrangements for rock nerds. On four albums since 2001, ...

Padma Newsome, the Australian principal composer of the trans-national quartet Clogs, would rather we didn't try to explain what kind of music his group plays. It's not that he wants to be difficult, ...

Sound is spiritual. The sound of a single, unaltered string quivering against the force of a finger can be religious. With its third album, Stick Music, the Australian-American group Clogs devotes ...