There’s often a whiff of joss sticks surrounding the music of Los Angeles-based composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. In the past she has made an LP of drones for yoga and meditation, a new age album […]
Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH will release their 12th studio album, “Opvs Contra Natvram”, on September 16 via Nuclear Blast. The official music video for the LP’s fourth single, “Thy Becoming Eternal”, produced by animator Ruben […]
Dance music superstar KSHMR has released the full recording of his recent DJ set in Kashmir, a performance he called “a truly special moment” in his career. Heading out to the middle of a lake with the ravishing […]
Earlier this year, it was revealed that Calvin Harris had bought an organic farm in Ibiza. For a moment, it looked as though the 38-year-old, Dumfries-born DJ was giving up his crown as king of […]
One of techno music’s modern day icons, Charlotte de Witte, has landed herself in a page in the EDM history book. The renowned Belgian DJ and electronic music producer has become the first woman and […]
Sam Gendel will release a new full-length on Leaving Records. The bulk of blueblue was recorded in isolation in a makeshift studio built in a cabin floating atop a tributary of Oregon’s Columbia river. Having sketched out […]
Consider the wiggle released. When Beyoncé told fans about her seventh solo studio album, “Renaissance” — and let’s just say right here that as far as seventh albums go, this one feels like as big […]
In west Africa’s griot tradition, it’s men who play instruments while women sing. But Sona Jobarteh was determined to change that and asked her father to teach her to play: today she is the first […]
Abel Selaocoe walks into a bar in King’s Cross, London, with a small suitcase and a large, curvaceous silver case. “I’m sorry, sir, but you’re going to have to put that in the cloakroom,” the […]
Photo by Adam Berta Connecticut-based jamband Goose have announced a string of tour dates set for fall. The tour will see Goose–comprised of Rick Mitarotonda (vocals, guitar), Peter Anspach (vocals, keys, guitar), Trevor Weekz (bass), […]
Acclaimed American composer Caroline Shaw has announced her second album with Attacca Quartet. The new record, Evergreen, is out September 23 via Nonesuch. The LP opens with “Three Essays: First Essay (Nimrod),” which you can […]
‘Apocalyptic nightmares fuel my music’Mark-Anthony Turnage Tell us about your Proms piece … I wrote Time Flies three years ago, in what seems a more innocent era. It was a reaction to getting older. Having […]
David Lee Roth has shared a a new acoustic solo song, “Pointing at the Moon,” along with single artwork created by the singer. Like his other recent solo offerings, the song features mellow guitarwork, piano, […]
Australian lo-fi house producer 44 Ardent has released ‘intothedeep,’ the title track from his upcoming EP 44 Ardent image credit via 44 Ardent June 29, 2022 44 Ardent unleashes ‘intothedeep,’ a monstrous new track with […]
Pascal Bideau is a French composer based in London who has written and arranged music for dozens of films and documentaries. He has studied Indonesian gamelan, and in his alter ego of Akusmi he explores […]
AD 93 will release the debut album of Coby Sey, a London producer and vocalist. Known to many for his collaborations with Tirzah, Mica Levi, and Klein, Sey’s influence stretches across many of the most […]
From golden hour to blue suede shoes, Kacey Musgraves has taken her pop-country sound backwards in time and shared a cover of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” The song appears on the soundtrack […]
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | RSS “The Glamorous Life” proved to be a major solo breakout for Sheila E. in 1984. The classic pop track was one of her man collaborations with the legendary Prince, […]
‘New Black music is this: find the self, then kill it.” The US poet Amiri Baraka wrote these words in the liner notes to the 1965 live album The New Wave in Jazz, and through […]
Dancing to music is one thing; music making you move is another. This abstract hour by Benjamin Millepied, in the 10th anniversary year of his LA Dance Project, subtly explores the difference between the two. […]