NOLA Funk Fest announced that this year it will be ushering in some of the most celebrated and passionate artists to represent the funk that percolated from the Crescent City’s fertile musical soil on the […]
Photo Credit: Laurenz Heymann A jazz trumpeter has taken on Apple Music’s trademark overreach, winning a long-standing battle with the tech giant in a US appeals court. Apple lost a bid to register part of […]
The members of Metallica have also witnessed their children forge their own paths through the first 72 seasons of life. While he and Ulrich walk a fine line between supporting background roles and veteran advisors, […]
Thomas Bangalter, half of the former Daft Punk duo, composed the score for the ballet Mythologies, choreographed by fellow Frenchman Angelin Preljocaj. Jean-Claude Carbonne/Biz 3 hide caption toggle caption Jean-Claude Carbonne/Biz 3 Thomas Bangalter, half […]
Arve Henriksen has made his name by being a trumpeter who doesn’t really sound like a trumpeter. On his albums for ECM and Rune Grammofon, on collaborations with the likes of David Sylvian and Iain […]
Robert Glasper, Terrace Martin, and Kamasi Washington have joined together once again as the jazz/hip-hop collective Dinner Party to unveil their second joint album, Enigmatic Society. The full-length follow-up to their 2020 self-titled debut with […]
On the heels of their 2021 release, The Future, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats have returned with a five-track EP, What If I, due June 2 via Stax. The EP features four previously unreleased […]
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning filmmaker Erika Dilday is joining Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon as co-director and co-producer of the upcoming documentary film Emancipation to Exodus (working title). It’s a long-term commitment – the film […]
Renowned Grammy-nominated band GOV’T MULE will release a new studio album, “Peace… Like A River”, this spring. The LP’s first single “Dreaming Out Loud”, featuring Ivan Neville and Ruthie Foster, can be streamed below. For […]
Wata Igarashi will release his debut album, Agartha, on Kompakt. Named after a mythical secret kingdom, understood as a complex maze of underground tunnels, Agartha is a “similarly mystical, perhaps even cosmic trip,” we’re told. […]
The first thing Dee Williams noticed was that it felt like home. It was December 2019, and the Los Angeles-based photographer had just touched down in Accra, Ghana, for the first time. What she found […]
Done (Let’s Get It), the groovy, squelching centrepiece of Yaeji’s debut album With a Hammer, is proof that inspiration – and life-altering revelation, in fact – can arise from the most unlikely of places. A […]
Lindsay Olsen, better known as Salami Rose Joe Louis, will release a new album on Flying Lotus‘ Brainfeeder. Drawing from her studies in planetary sciences, Olsen explores ideas of multiverses and climate change through the […]
Ryuichi Sakamoto was not a man cut out to be a pop star. As a teenager, he liked the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but his abiding passion was New York’s underground avant garde art […]
Ray Shulman, a co-founding member and bassist of the influential prog-rock band Gentle Giant, has died at the age of 73. According to his brother and bandmate, Derek, Ray passed away on March 30th after […]
Scott Weiland‘s solo debut, “12 Bar Blues”, marks its 25th anniversary today, and Rhino is celebrating by remastering and expanding the acclaimed album for two upcoming releases. On Record Store Day, the album will make […]
The iconic queen of New Orleans Bounce, Big Freedia, is back with a new upbeat dance single, “Central City Freestyle.” Listen to the track and watch its delightfully uninhibited video below. Built around a lively […]
In this series we ask authors, Guardian writers and readers to share what they have been reading recently. This month, recommendations include a searing poetry collection, a brilliant history of dancefloors and unputdownable novels. Tell […]
Longtime political humorist Mark Russell, the wise-cracking piano player who skewered Washington’s elite with pithy one-liners and upbeat tunes, has died. He was 90. The irreverent satirist died Thursday at home in Washington, D.C., of […]
Photo by Danny Clinch Today, the legendary Bettye LaVette shared she’ll release her next offering, LaVette!, on June 16 via Jay-Vee Records. In celebration of the announcement of the collection of songs written by Randall […]