New recipients of the Doris Duke Artist Awards have been named. Among them are artists who have shared our stage (or will), including Ping Chong, Myra Melford, Tere O’Connor, Pavol Liska, Kelly Copper, David Lang, Elizabeth Streb, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and others.

“Where did punk rock start? Who cares? It’s not where did it start, it’s why did it start?” said Bob Mould in 1981. Before the Bob Mould Band and Sugar, before a prolific solo career, Mould was part of punk mainstays Hüsker Dü. Jeff Severns Guntzel looks at Mould’s Minneapolis origins and the unbroken line—personal, musical, and political—linking his work with the band and all that has come since.

Photographer Alec Soth is among 175 American and Canadian artists, scholars, and scientists named 2013 Guggenheim Fellows. Others making the cut: filmmaker Marie Losier, composer Myra Melford, artist Coco Fusco, and filmmaker Ira Sachs.

Tim Carr, the Minnesota–born A&R exec who signed the Beastie Boys, has been found dead in Thailand. He produced the Walker’s seminal M-80 festival, worked with bands like Babes In Toyland, and created Ramakien with Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Recapping our Zorn @ 60 music marathon Saturday, Pamela Espeland writes on John Zorn’s solo midnight organ concert at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral: “It was dramatic, deeply spiritual and thrilling. Let’s start a movement. More improvised music in churches!”

Sound is “getting recognized as a frontier,” says Barbara London, who’s curating MoMA’s upcoming Soundings: A Contemporary Score. The museum’s first big sound art show, it features recordings of, among other things, flying bats and Taiwanese factory.

“One cannot categorize [John] Zorn,” says cellist Fred Sherry, who dubs the New York music icon “a big subject: friend, composer, wild man, confidante, connoisseur, dreamer, idealist.” In a two-part online celebration of Zorn’s 60th birthday, we asked 60 artists, poets, and musicians—including Yoko Ono, Meredith Monk, and Terry Riley—to share their reflections on a music pioneer.

When we asked an array of musicians and artists—including Laurie Anderson, Nels Cline, and Bill Frisell—to share their reflections about John Zorn on the occasion of his 60th birthday, three words kept recurring: “visionary,” “mensch,” “dude.” In a two-part celebration of Zorn’s sixth decade, we share 60 birthday wishes for this celebrated improviser, experimenter, and genre-jumping producer.

In concert (ahem) with the March 31 broadcast of MN Original’s mini-documentary on Rock the Garden 2012, The Current shares a few web-only extras—footage of Doomtree, Trampled by Turtles, and Howler (covering Hüsker Dü’s “Don’t Wanna Know if You Are Lonely”).