Why I Experience Spiritual Moments at Bomba Estéreo Shows

Why I Experience Spiritual Moments at Bomba Estéreo Shows

Bomba Estéreo has made an impact since catapulting onto the global music scene in 2015 with their album “Amanecer” and the hit single “Fiesta,” featuring Will Smith. While they’ve been nominated several times over the […]

Duval Timothy: Meeting With a Judas Tree review – disrupted piano minimalism at its most satisfying | Music

Duval Timothy: Meeting With a Judas Tree Album artwork

One would hope that the profile of the pianist and composer Duval Timothy might rise exponentially after his high-profile production work on Kendrick Lamar’s Mr Morale & the Big Steppers. This former art student – […]

JOURNEY’s JONATHAN CAIN Releases ‘Christmas Is Love’ EP

JOURNEY's JONATHAN CAIN Releases 'Christmas Is Love' EP

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee and JOURNEY bandmember Jonathan Cain has just released “Christmas Is Love” from Identity Records with The Fuel Music distribution. The EP is available now at digital and streaming […]

Tom G Warrior of Celtic Frost: ‘Metal was so limited. We were anarchists’ | Music

Celtic Frost photographed for Morbid Tales in July 1984.

Back in the 80s, the 4AD record label was synonymous with a certain ineffable otherness. Its albums had beautiful covers, designed by Vaughan Oliver, and inside those covers was music routinely described as “ethereal”. 4AD […]

How Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels made ‘Omar’ at LA Opera

A portrait of Rhiannon Giddens with a banjo hanging in the background.

Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar from Senegal, wrote an autobiography in 1831 about how he was captured and sold into slavery for decades in the Carolinas. His memoir, written in Arabic, brims with quotations […]

Psychedelics, spies and Swedish jazz: how Deathloop made video games sound cool | Games

Deathloop soundtrack composer Tom Salta with his Minimoog.

How do you make music sound cool? How can you explain why the soundtrack to, say, any of the spy films of the 1960s still sound cool decades later? How can Foxy Lady still get […]

‘I was ready to throw the tape away’: how we made What a Fool Believes by the Doobie Brothers | Pop and rock

record cover - Doobie Brothers, The - What A Fool Believes

Michael McDonald, singer Kenny Loggins and I had been chatting about getting together to write some songs. He came over to my house in LA just as I was playing what I had for What […]

Beth Orton review – a redefining moment | Beth Orton

Beth Orton at Koko.

It’s extraordinary how unchanged Beth Orton appears, given the skirmishes over her very selfhood she has apparently fought in the six years since her last album. Clad in a mirrored dress and glittery shoes – […]