Kylie, Genesis Owusu and David Bridie: Australia’s best new music for June | Australian music

It’s a Padamic! Kylie Minogue performs live in London in 2021.

Kylie Minogue – Padam Padam For fans of: Ava Max, Eurovision, all the fake-sounding RuPaul songs Padam Padam, the first single from Kylie Minogue’s forthcoming 16th album Tension, has proven as inescapable (and about as […]

Review: Afrojack throws a lengthy electronic music party at New York’s Brooklyn Mirage

Afrojack performing live at Brooklyn Mirage

Afrojack performing live at Brooklyn Mirage. Photo Credit: Chris Lavado On Sunday, May 28, world-renowned electronic dance music superstar Afrojack performed a six-hour set at the Brooklyn Mirage in New York, for a great fan […]

Apple Launches New Concert Discovery Features on Apple Maps

Apple Music concert discovery

Photo Credit: Apple Music Apple launches new concert discovery features on Apple Maps and Apple Music with live show curation, browsing venues’ upcoming shows, and more. Apple has launched new concert discovery features on Apple […]

Beyoncé review – a spangled supernova of joy | Beyoncé

Beyoncé on stage in Cardiff

It begins with what looks like an old-fashioned TV test card but is in fact the colours of the Progress Pride flag, arrayed across the back of the giant stage. It ends with a photo […]

Legendary Electronic Producer Ryuichi Sakamoto Compiled a Playlist for His Own Funeral

Legendary Electronic Producer Ryuichi Sakamoto Compiled a Playlist for His Own Funeral

Ryuichi Sakamoto, who tragically succumbed to cancer in March, was a trailblazer in the electronic music space, paving the way for the sounds of today through his influential work with the iconic Yellow Magic Orchestra. […]

Overmono: Good Lies review – UK rave history is distilled to perfection | Music

The artwork for Good Lies.

Overmono take their name from a suburb of their Welsh home town. You could take that as a knowing joke from a duo steeped in wilfully urban-sounding music, who specifically intended their celebrated 2021 Fabric […]

Black Light Smoke Spans Origins of House Music on Scissor and Thread

Black Light Smoke Spans Origins of House Music on Scissor and Thread

Black Light Smoke (a.k.a Jordan Lieb) will return to Scissor and Thread with his second album. Ghosts, which is Lieb’s first release on the Brooklyn, New York label since 2019, was written across a two-year […]

‘Liverpool is a Little Kyiv’: cities unite on livestream for Rave UKraine events | Ukraine

People pointing phones at screen

“Hello Liverpool!” came the enthusiastic greeting from Vlad Yaremchuk, one of the organisers of a dance event livestreaming to the UK from behind the decks in the free-spirited Kyiv club HVLV. “I really hope you […]

Prog, angst and cosmic pyramids: why Daft Punk are my generation’s Pink Floyd | Daft Punk

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (left) and Daft Punk Random Access Memories.

Few records in the 21st century have divided a band’s fans as much as Daft Punk’s fourth studio album, Random Access Memories. While the reviews were largely positive, a significant swathe of the band’s fanbase […]

Berghain Bouncer Sven Marquardt brings photo exhibit to NY Art Week

Berghain Bouncer Sven Marquardt brings photo exhibit to NY Art Week

Berlin nightlife icon Sven Marquardt has announced his DISTURBING BEAUTY New York Art Week photo exhibition at ArtsDistrict Brooklyn May 18-21. In collaboration with New York nightlife impresarios Teksupport, DISTURBING BEAUTY will see the Berlin […]

3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: The Lemon Twigs, Fred again.. and Eno, and Flume

The Lemon Twigs

3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: The Lemon Twigs, Fred again.. and Eno, and Flume The Lemon Twigs image via Stephanie Pia May 8, 2023 There’s so much good music […]

Adjunct Ensemble: Sovereign Bodies/Ritual Taxonomy review – a disorientating act of resistance | Music

The artwork for Sovereign Bodies/Ritual Taxonomy

Anyone who has heard the Beatles’ Revolution No 9 will be familiar with musique concrète: a compositional style based around the manipulation of existing recordings and found sounds, one pioneered by the likes of Pierre […]

ARC Music Festival adds Dax J, Sara Landry, Mike Dunn, and More in Massive Phase 2 Announcement

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On the heels of their initial lineup announcement only two months ago, ARC Music Festival is back to add even more talent to an already overflowing lineup. Phase two additions include Monnom Black label head […]

The Type of Music Each Zodiac Sign Should Listen To — Best Life

Megan Thee Stallion

Whether you typically gravitate toward songs with a danceable beat and catchy lyrics or you prefer something more mellow and chill, it’s always fun to listen to new artists. After all, you never know which […]