Adjunct Ensemble: Sovereign Bodies/Ritual Taxonomy review – a disorientating act of resistance | Music

The artwork for Sovereign Bodies/Ritual Taxonomy

Anyone who has heard the Beatles’ Revolution No 9 will be familiar with musique concrète: a compositional style based around the manipulation of existing recordings and found sounds, one pioneered by the likes of Pierre […]

KAMELOT Announces August/September 2023 North American Tour With BATTLE BEAST And XANDRIA

KAMELOT Announces August/September 2023 North American Tour With BATTLE BEAST And XANDRIA

Modern heavy symphonic metal leaders KAMELOT have announced the 2023 “Awaken The World” North American headline tour, featuring special guests BATTLE BEAST and additional support from XANDRIA. The tour kicks off in Silver Spring, Maryland […]

Watch: KAMELOT Performs New Single ‘One More Flag In The Ground’ Live For First Time Aboard 70000 TONS OF METAL Cruise

KAMELOT Announces First Album In Five Years, 'The Awakening'

Modern symphonic metal icons KAMELOT performed their new single, “One More Flag In The Ground”, live for the first time during their February 2 set aboard this year’s 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise. Fan-filmed video […]

MANOWAR Shares Lyric Video For ‘Immortal’ From ‘The Revenge Of Odysseus’ EP

MANOWAR Shares Lyric Video For 'Immortal' From 'The Revenge Of Odysseus' EP

MANOWAR has released the official lyric video for the song “Immortal”. The track is taken from the band’s latest digital EP, “The Revenge Of Odysseus (Highlights)”, which came out in June via Magic Circle Entertainment. […]

What Whitney Houston was supposed to sing

Whitney Houston in "The Bodyguard."

What a difference a song makes — especially when it’s sung by the Greatest Voice of All. That was no doubt the case when Whitney Houston’s epic rendition of “I Will Always Love You” hit […]

‘My heart is racing, I’m terrified’: Cat Power on recreating Bob Dylan’s infamous 1966 ‘electric’ gig | Cat Power

Wired for sound … Bob Dylan performing at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester in 1966.

Recently, Chan Marshall was driving to a rehearsal studio in Los Angeles. It was days before she was heading to Europe for a run of dates that includes a night at the Royal Albert Hall, […]

Leslie Jordan Opened Up About Being Embraced by Nashville Before Death – Rolling Stone

Watch Leslie Jordan Sing About Going to Heaven a Day Before His Death: ‘Love. Light. Leslie’

Country music star was one of the last things Leslie Jordan added to his long list of joy-bringing talents before his unexpected death on Monday, Oct. 24, following a fatal car crash in Los Angeles […]

‘A nonconformist with a conservative’s regard for tradition’: Ralph Vaughan Williams at 150 | Ralph Vaughan Williams

The composer with his second wife and muse Ursula Vaughan Williams.

When encountering an unfamiliar composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams, I find myself asking the same questions: where have I heard this before? Do I know this already or am I simply imagining it? Clear answers […]

The Top 10 Most Popular & Admired Indian Musical Instruments In 2022

Ravanahatha

Music is by far the most important kind of art and culture in India, where it plays a significant role in people’s daily life. India is a country of music, as evidenced by the audience […]

‘It’s so alien, I’ve never heard anything like it’: folk collective Heilung on recording the world’s oldest song | Folk music

Heilung performing in Berlin in 2019

About 300,000 years ago (give or take a few millennia), the human larynx dropped downwards, an evolutionary advance as vital in separating us from the apes as the development of opposable thumbs and a large […]

Ogi Is Still Making Sense Of Her Success, But To Her Credit, She’s Releasing Great Music In The Process

Ogi 2022 Press Photo

Kanya Iwana Ogi actually had no plan to be a full-time singer. That’s the most shocking part about the Chicago-born Nigerian-American singer. Prior to everything that’s occurred for her over the last four years, Ogi […]

‘Like seeing Stonehenge for the first time’: the visionary genius of Vaughan Williams | Classical music

‘He witnessed things he was never to speak of … except perhaps in music’ … Vaughan Williams serving in the Field Ambulance in 1915.

Ask people about Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose 150th anniversary we celebrate this year, and you might be told either that he is hands down Britain’s favourite composer or a parochial embarrassment whose music sounds like […]

Watch: MANOWAR Performs In Athens During ‘Crushing The Enemies Of Metal Anniversary Tour’

Watch: MANOWAR Performs In Athens During 'Crushing The Enemies Of Metal Anniversary Tour'

Fan-filmed video of MANOWAR‘s June 22 concert in Athens, Greece during the “Crushing The Enemies Of Metal Anniversary Tour” can be seen below. Earlier this week, MANOWAR released a new digital EP, “The Revenge Of […]