Amanda Ghassaei, who’s been 3D-printing records from mp3s, is now focusing on wood. In her latest project she’s created the world’s first laser-cut vinyl discs from wood, including Radiohead’s “Idioteque” and the Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale” in maple.

Enamored by achingly beautiful deconstructionist pop? How about whiskey-soaked vocals? Jaunty handclaps? The Stool Pigeon takes “a magical journey through clichés as we look at the drivel that’s dearest to music writers’ hearts.”

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.