Daft Punk‘s farewell album is now saying farewell to its drums. Long-starved for fresh beats after the duo’s shocking disbandment, fans of Daft Punk can now look forward to “new” music by virtue of a […]
New York composer Lea Bertucci will release a new album on her own Cibachrome Editions. Of Shadow and Substance explores dissonance, drone, and dynamics with two new long-form compositions. The record opens with “Vapours,” whose […]
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Minimalism is usually cool, detached, frictionless and mathematical. The music made by percussionist Bex Burch is not any of these things. What she calls “messy minimalism” shares some characteristics with the music of Steve Reich […]
Corinne Bailey Rae wanders the stage wordlessly, wafting handheld percussion instruments at amplifiers and members of her band as though burning sage to cleanse the space. All around her is the sound of more percussion […]
Hauschka, stage name for Volker Bertelmann, drops found objects in his piano to “create electronic music with an analog instrument.” Hannes Caspar/Pitch Perfect PR hide caption toggle caption Hannes Caspar/Pitch Perfect PR Hauschka, stage name […]
Nihiloxica, the dark electro-percussion group, has released a new album on Crammed Discs. Source of Denial comes more than three long years after Kaloli, their album debut. It points a (middle) finger at the hostile […]
Nabil Ayers and Lol Tolhurst, photographed by Sophie Wilde Spare. The Cure’s very first performance was at their Catholic School end-of-year assembly. Covering Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out,” Lol Tolhurst, the band’s drummer and co-founder, wore […]
Trevor Rabin, the South African guitarist, singer, multi-musician, writer and producer, recently announced “Rio”, his first solo album of vocal material in 34 years, set for release on October 6 worldwide. He has now revealed […]
On Tuesday, Madison Square Garden in New York once again reverberated with the mesmerizing sounds of Phish, drawing in a sea of enthusiastic fans. The evening was a spectacle of rare performances and memorable jams, […]
‘We were not trying to make people dance, we were not trying to ‘rock’ – we were trying to make things that were beautiful,” says Dean Wareham, who formed Galaxie 500 in Boston in 1987 […]
Cull Portal slowly mutates in various directions. Analogue synths burble; intense meditative improvisations develop on the piano; pastoral string sections fade in and grow more harmonically complex; wispy saxophones spray modal jazz riffs over coruscating […]
One of the most highly anticipated music festivals of the year is quickly approaching. Lollapalooza is set to bring several fan-favorite artists and up-and-coming musicians, all bringing a very distinctive sound throughout the 4-day event. […]
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Billy Joel. Photo Courtesy of Myrna Suarez On July 24, Billy Joel played a show at Madison Square Garden as part of his monthly residency. He also took the time to remember the late Tony […]
I’ve always seen Ozuna, as a curious case in modern reggaetón. As one of the most recognizable faces of the current generation of reggaetóneros and traperos, he is constantly in demand as far as features […]
Paul Simon can’t tour again because he hasn’t “figured out how to perform with the hearing loss”. The 81-year-old singer has suffered hearing loss in his left ear over the last few years and he’s […]
Photos by Emilio Herce @emilioherce This week on July 18, 19 and 20, Canadian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Mac DeMarco performed at New York’s Webster Hall as part of his Five Easy Hot Dogs […]
Mongolian music has a long history of producing captivating vocal styles. The best-known is throat singing – a reverberating technique that produces multiple pitches during a single phrase. Raw, earthy and a predominantly male pursuit, […]
It’s sometimes said that jazz vocals are supposed to sound like the singer, not the song. Departed legends from Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald to Mark Murphy and Betty Carter have epitomised that, as idiosyncratic […]