Photo Credit: Marc Millman On Wednesday, Jan. 15, Relix celebrated its 50th anniversary at New York’s Brooklyn Bowl by hosting a night billed as Taper’s Choice with Friends & Casual Acquaintances. In the magazine’s spirit, […]
André 3000 stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night to perform a rendition of his song “BuyPoloDisorder’s Daughter Wears A 3000® Shirt Embroidered.” Donned in workman overalls and a blue hockey jersey, […]
From the mariachi’s booming guitarron on “Cielito Lindo,” to the powerful accordeón in Los Tigres del Norte’s “Ni Parientes Somos” to even the trap drums of a Natanael Cano corrido tumbado, the sound of música […]
On most Thursdays, Danny Ramirez begins his weekly routine: a fresh haircut, beard trim and boot shining. But he isn’t prepping for a date or a night out with friends. It’s all part of the […]
Dame Area is the industrial synth-punk duo of Silvia Konstance and Viktor Lux Crux. Based in Barcelona, and descending from both Catalan and Italian roots, the duo stumbles into an anarchic industrial wilderness on Toda […]
Fievel Is Glauque have a new album on the way. Rong Weicknes, out October 25 via Fat Possum, follows the jazz duo’s 2022 LP Flaming Swords. “As Above So Below,” which you can hear below, […]
Photo Credit: Dino Perrucci On Tuesday, June 11, Wynton Marsalis stopped in at New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club to deliver his first performance of the 2024 Blue Note Jazz Festival. Alongside an all-star lineup […]
Photo Credit: C. Taylor Cruthers Previously, Béla Fleck announced the impending release of his final duo project with jazz titan Chick Corea. Titled Remembrance, the set is slated for release on May 10 via Thirty […]
The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from Cardi B, Flo Milli, Tierra Whack, and more. Guys, it’s finally happened: A Best New Hip-Hop column in which I could literally get […]
In the National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, violinist Joshua Bell and conductor Dalia Stasevska are on an intensely focused mission to get the opening bars of a concerto just right. The work begins with a […]
10. Nikki Iles – Face to Face Since the 1990s, the pianist and composer Nikki Iles has been a sought-after accompanist with a flawless anticipatory ear, a harmonically innovative composer and a piano improviser in […]
Denny Laine, the frontman of the Moody Blues who went on to huge success with Paul McCartney in Wings, has died aged 79. He had lung damage caused by interstitial lung disease. His wife, Elizabeth […]
For the past four years, André 3000 sightings have practically become a thing of folklore. The circumstances tend to fit a pattern: someone stealthily films the Outkast legend playing a wooden double flute in public, […]
Tank and the Bangas have unveiled the special guests that will be joining their upcoming residency at Blue Note New York next month. See the schedule below: November 16: Tank and The Bangas w/ Terrace […]
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 […]
It’s easy to take Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood for granted. For three decades, the pair have put out consistently beautiful music as the principal songwriters of Radiohead, challenging listeners with each record on their journey […]
Melissa McCarthy in “The Little Mermaid.” (Disney) The animated Ursula, voiced by Pat Carroll, “is not only flashy and flamboyant but also understands the power of transformation and performance — as well as ‘body language’ […]
Four Tet’s shows have never had such a clash of audiences. Some know Kieran Hebden as the grandfather of a certain introspective strain of UK club music; others know him as part of a trio […]
It was the Neanderthals who imagined a soundmaking miracle hiding in a cave bear’s leg bone and carved it into the oldest known musical instrument. Should any of them happen to drop by 50,000 years […]
African Head Charge, the group formed by percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, will release a new album on On-U Sound Records. Whereas Noah’s previous albums have been a melting pot of global influences, A Trip To […]