Live In New York Laurie Anderson scored an improbable hit in the early ?80s with the atmospheric "O Superman," a song that appears near the end of this exhaustive two-disc... more
Life on a String A new Laurie Anderson album is usually a thing to welcome. Often less a performance artist than point person for global-village storytelling--as on 1995's... more
Talk Normal: A Laurie Anderson Anthology Laurie Anderson is something of a missionary. Having endured the scorn of some influential avant-garde peers for "selling out" (by signing to a major label... more
Bright Red How do you make a pop song work without the safety net of melody? Rappers do it with hyperactive dance beats and lots of attitude, but Laurie Anderson... more
United States Live For most musicians and groups, the live box set marks the culmination of a lengthy recording and concert career. Not so for Laurie Anderson, whose United... more
Big Science Big Science prompted trendy early-'80s art students to plug in their synthesizers and start their own postpunk performance-art-cum-rock-&-roll projects.... more