RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE bassist Tim Commerford has joined forces with Mathias Wakrat and Jonny Polonsky to form a new trio, 7D7D. The band’s debut track, “Capitalism”, has just been released via Mad Bunny Records […]
SEPULTURA bassist Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. has joined long-running South American metallers CULTURA TRES. The band, led by brothers Alejandro and Juanma Montoya, will release a new album, “Camino De Brujos”, on April 7, 2023 […]
Julia Holter’s mercurial career has taken her from traditional pop to chamber music, indie to electronica, the avant grade underground to the Top 20 and recently to film scores. Here, the Los Angeles-based composer has […]
Sony Music today announced the upcoming release of Roger Waters “Comfortably Numb 2022”. The iconic song originally appeared on the seminal Pink Floyd album, The Wall. Comfortably Numb 2022 will be available on all streaming […]
The 23rd Latin Grammy Awards made a major impression in the best new artist category on Thursday: The voting body bestowed the prize upon two artists, one of whom was nonagenarian Angela Álvarez. The Cuba-born […]
Mali Obomsawin is a musician from the First Abenaki Nation, growing up on ancestral land in Maine and Quebec, whose debut album asks vital questions about the reception and expression of indigenous and traditional music. […]
Stockholm-based composer Kali Malone has announced a new album with Lucy Railton (cello) and Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley (electric guitar) called Does Spring Hide Its Joy. The 3xLP release has a runtime of more than […]
Stockholm-based composer Kali Malone has announced a new album with Lucy Railton (cello) and Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley (electric guitar) called Does Spring Hide Its Joy. The 3xLP release has a runtime of more than […]
It’s nearly impossible to hear the score in “Tar” — but that’s by design. In a story about an elite classical conductor, who is constantly wielding a symphony orchestra, a traditional score “would just be […]
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic have earned a Grammy Award nod for best orchestral performance alongside another L.A. nominee, conductor Christopher Rountree’s experimental new music chamber orchestra, Wild Up. The two groups are […]
Much has been said of how João Gilberto disrupted Brazillian music with his take on samba, which went on to become bossa nova. His whispering vocals and offbeat, percussion-laced guitar were a novelty to Brazil […]
For most metal bands, a power outage spells doom. It’s a genre that requires sheer volume. No power = no show. Or so one would think… When the power went out before Stryper’s set at […]
Jeff Tweedy, Wilco; producer, The Invisible Way Low goes really far back in my family – my wife had a rock club in Chicago called Lounge Ax, which Low would play all the way back […]
It has been a head-spinning year for drummer Tom Skinner. He has been crossing the globe touring new albums simultaneously with London jazz group Sons of Kemet and with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood as […]
Mimi Parker, drummer, vocalist and songwriter for the Minnesota indie band Low, has died, her husband and bandmate Alan Sparhawk has said. Parker was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December 2020. She was 55 years […]
There are few places to hide on a solo piano record. The often fragile and expressive format has been a gauntlet for some of music’s great improvisers, including Abdullah Ibrahim on 2021’s Solotude and Keith […]
Kristin Hayter will retire her beloved experimental project Lingua Ignota in early 2023. Known for composing bracing, cross-genre epics, Hayter said the decision would promote her mental health and prevent her from being “mired in […]
When Ileana Cabra Joglar, known professionally as iLe takes the stage at Brooklyn’s Public Records, it is to a round of raucous applause and whistles—something the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter is no doubt used to by […]
Kacho, Kilos and Mongo Gama grew up performing in cemeteries. Along with their father, José (a.k.a. Batuco), the brothers would play next to the mariachi and Norteño groups performing for families visiting their relatives during […]
Burial has surprise released the Streetlands EP, a three-track, 34-minute ambient collection from Hyperdub. Streetlands is described as a follow-up to January’s ANTIDAWN, a concept EP about wintertime in the city. The new project didn’t arrive with an official explanation, […]