As a student at Goldsmiths I was out practically every night attending concerts and was at nearly every important premiere – Ferneyhough, Maxwell Davies, Birtwistle, Boulez, Reich, LeFanu – mostly male composers, it is true. […]
Billie Eilish has seen your “What Was I Made For?” TikToks, and yes, they wrecked her too. “When the song started to have a life of its own there, I spent one night staying up […]
Carla Bley, the American jazz composer-pianist celebrated for boldly avant-garde work as well as her uplifting and beautiful takes on the genre’s mainstream, has died aged 87. Her death was announced by longtime partner and […]
In 2017, Sampha Sisay released his debut album Process. A troubled, sometimes harrowing, frequently beautiful response to his mother’s death, it was rapturously reviewed and a Top 10 hit. It wound up high in critics’ […]
This week, THE ROLLING STONES achieved a significant milestone by claiming their 14th Number 1 album in the United Kingdom with “Hackney Diamonds”, outperforming all other albums in the Top 5 in terms of sales. […]
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 […]
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This past June, Paul McCartney disclosed that he had embarked on a new musical endeavor, crafting what he affectionately termed the Beatles’ ultimate song with the assistance of cutting-edge AI software. He further hinted that […]
Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, author as well as founding member of hard rock bands ALTER BRIDGE, CREED and TREMONTI, Mark Tremonti has just released his first-ever Christmas album, “Christmas Classics New & Old”. The official […]
Soon it will feel like “Yesterday” all over again. That’s because there will be a brand-new Beatles song — yes, you read that right — coming here, there and everywhere in just one week. On […]
Now and Then, the long-awaited “final” Beatles song featuring all four members, is to be released next week thanks to the same AI technology that was used to enhance the audio on Peter Jackson’s documentary […]
Carla Bley performs in Nice, France, in 2009. Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images Carla Bley performs in Nice, France, in 2009. Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images […]
A 24-year-old piano prodigy, Jahari Stampley, has won one of the most prestigious awards in jazz. The competition held by the Herbie Hancock Institute is widely seen as anointing new stars. Marcio Toledo hide caption […]
“High School Musical,” who says we have to let it go? The last film in the “High School Musical” trilogy, “High School Musical 3: Senior Year,” turns 15 on Tuesday, and you know what that […]
Tom Hulce, played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I’d really wanted the part of Younger Brother in Miloš Forman’s previous film Ragtime and had had a couple of disastrous meetings with him. When I met him for […]
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 […]
Tom Petty’s estate is celebrating what would have been his 73rd birthday by sharing some previously unreleased demos from the artist. Listen to tracks from Petty’s Wildflowers and Mojo eras below. Mojo (Extra Mojo Edition) reissues Tom Petty and […]
Madonna has kickstarted her “Celebration Tour” and is honoring her fellow legends while she’s at it! The highly anticipated tour began its kickoff on Saturday, October 14, at the O2 Arena in London, and the […]
LONDON — First Blue Ivy practically stole the “Renaissance” Tour from Beyoncé. Now it’s Madonna’s 11-year-old daughter Estere showing that she got it from her mama, at the opening of the Queen of Pop’s “Celebration” Tour […]
Agnetha Fältskog’s recent single, Where Do We Go From Here?, came with an animated video. It depicted the cartoonish version of the Abba singer that is permanently burned into the collective memory: blond hair, blue […]