Laurie Anderson returns to the BAM stage one week from today, to open the 2010 Next Wave Festival with the New York premiere of her new performance piece, Delusion. The festival will include 12 performances of the piece at the BAM Harvey Theater in Brooklyn, from September 21 to September 26, and September 28 to October 3. To mark the occasion, Nonesuch Records is giving away three pairs of tickets to a weeknight performance of Delusion. To enter to win, simply e-mail info@nonesuch.com or leave a comment below by this Thursday, September 16, at 5 PM ET.

Says the New York Times: "Expect Ms. Anderson’s grippingly idiosyncratic mixture of speaking, singing and electric violin playing, along with puppetry, Tibetan horns and Arabic strings."

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Homeland, Anderson's latest Nonesuch release and her first studio album in nearly a decade, has landed at the No. 1 spot on Greil Marcus's Real Life Rock Top Ten in the September issue of The Believer. He considers Homeland to be Anderson's best album yet.

Marcus calls attention to the album track "Only an Expert," a revised version of which Anderson performed on The Late Show with David Letterman this past summer. It "is not anything anyone could have expected from Laurie Anderson: a pop song," writes Marcus. "The chorus is pure pop, the singer taking pleasure in the momentum of a few words that quickly cease to mean anything—they could be doo-wops. The music is that cool, that unafraid of itself ... This song is very funny for more than seven and a half minutes, and it gets funnier the more you listen to it."

There's much more at believermag.com.

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Consequences of Sound, in its review of Homeland, says of Anderson: "Her 40-year career as a performing artist can be described as unclassifiable, which defines and yet defies the odds of how a true artist can be labeled." Reviewer Daniel Kohn goes on to explain: "Thus, it should be no surprise that on Homeland, Anderson’s eerie yet angelic voice grabs your attention along with the unorthodox sounds that support her words. Furthermore, she expands on the time-tested templates of her earlier material, albeit with more singing, violin playing, and unapologetic politics."

Kohn concludes: "Homeland is consistently unafraid to take chances. But that sums up the artistry of Anderson: indefinable yet avant-garde music at its finest."

Read the complete review at consequencesofsound.net.

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To pick up a copy of Homeland, with audiophile-quality 320 kbps MP3s of the album included at checkout, head to the Nonesuch Store. For more tour information, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.