In a milestone for the nascent Pakistan dance music community, Boiler Room announced their first-ever show in Pakistan. Local dance music fans were swept off their feet when a striking poster popped up on Instagram […]
‘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 […]
The singer-songwriter has been married three times, and has a son and four daughters, plus eight grandchildren. — © AFP Charles ONIANS Paul McCartney turns 80 on Saturday and a week later becomes the oldest […]
Ayman Rostom, better known as The Maghreban, will release his second album in July. Rostom, a native of Guildford, England with Egyptian and Saudi heritage, has been working on Connection since 01DEAS, his last album, […]
Late one Thursday in March 1988, Dave Swindells walked into a tiny, sweat-drenched club in central London and found himself present at the birth of a new cultural revolution. The venue, behind Charing Cross station, […]
The most apparent truth about Mike Paradinas’s glitchy, skittering music is that it doesn’t like to sit still. As μ-Ziq, Paradinas established himself in the arena of 90s experimental, abstract and tweaked-out electronica, his sense […]
PRIEST, the synthwave act featuring former members of the Grammy Award-winning Swedish rock act GHOST, will release a new full-length album, “Body Machine”, on July 15 on all formats, including CD, vinyl and digital. The […]
Stripped-back grooves and funk-laden deep house from three special names We’re ready to launch the 38th edition of XLR8R+. For our members, a new month means a package of previously unreleased music, and this time […]
“Neptune Frost” — the mesmerizing Afrofuturist musical brainchild of multihyphenate poet-rapper-writer-musician Saul Williams and his wife, Rwandan artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman — opens with a cacophony of color and sound, both digitized and natural. […]
What a year for hip-hop it has already been. After four years of radio silence from Kendrick Lamar, the Compton poet returned with one of the most vulnerable projects of his career. Another returning veteran […]
Charlotte de Witte is set to make Tomorrowland history in 2022. The Belgium-based festival of nearly two decades will for the first time feature a closing set by a woman on the main stage. Fittingly, organizers […]
Australian label Butter Sessions has released the debut album from Japanese producer Yuzo Iwata. Other than single-track contributions, remixes, and singles as Fabio Lazaro and Almost East since 2015, Iwata has kept a reasonably low […]
Buh Records curates Síntomas de techno (Symptoms of techno): Underground electronic waves from Peru (1985-1991), an ode to the originators of Peruvian electronic music Síntomas de techno cover image via Rogelio Martel Reviewed: June 1, […]
For all the promise of gender equality on lineups, UK music festivals are still dominated by male artists – a BBC study last week found that only 13% of headliners at top festivals this year […]
The sheer diversity of the concertgoers who descended upon Kraftwerk’s tour kickoff at The Pageant in St. Louis is a testament to the genre-spanning influence of the German electronic music pioneers. Punks, goths, metalheads, record […]
Over the past few years, Sydney-born DJ, producer and songwriter Haai – real name Teneil Throssell – has become something of an underground star in her adopted hometown of London. A two-year resident at the […]
Dion Mckenzie, better known as TYGAPAW, will release his debut album on vinyl. The Brooklyn-based artist originally released GET FREE in November 2020 on Mexican label N.A.A.F.I., delivering an 11-track collection of hard-hitting, cathartic energy […]
Andy Fletcher of the band Depeche Mode performs in 2017 during their “Global Spirit Tour” at the Capital One Arena, in Washington, D.C. Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP Andy Fletcher of the […]
Greek pop music of the 1960s is not an area of musical history where anyone who doesn’t fondly remember it first-hand is advised to dwell. There are a few exceptions – garage rock collectors have […]
Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar has made a career of unifying unexpected collaborators. His 2016 debut album, Day to Day, featured the folk music of the Sidi community from rural Gujarat, mixing west African rhythms […]