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Curated by the National's Bryce Dessner, the Music Now Festival is probably the hippest experimental music event taking place in Cincinnati March 11-12. (Probably.) We already reported most of the line-up-- the Books, Toumani Diabate, Kronos Quartet playing a new composition from Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry-- but something new and exciting has come up.

Turns out the fest nabbed Battles dude Tyondai Braxton (yes, he's the guy who does all those evil Keebler Elf vox on Mirrored) to compose a new piece, which will be played by the Kronos Quartet on day one of the two-day extravaganza at Cincinnati's Memorial Hall. Ok, now it's definitely the hippest experimental event taking place in Cincinnati March 11-12. Case closed.

Music Now Festival

03-11 Cincinnati, Ohio - Memorial Hall (The Books and world premieres of new works by Richard Reed Parry and Tyondai Braxton played by Kronos Quartet)
03-12 Cincinnati, Ohio - Memorial Hall (Toumani Diabate and Kronos Quartet)