The biography 'Jazz Revolutionary' illuminates the complex world of Eric Dolphy through meticulous research and fresh interviews. Grasse discusses his decade-long quest to understand one of jazz's most enigmatic voices.
After his brother's recent passing, the English singer-songwriter channels profound personal loss into his latest album, weaving together electronic textures, folk sensibilities, and raw emotion in songs that speak to healing and hope.
Through projects like 'Circuits & Skins' and A.I.RE, Pegher demonstrates how classical percussion can speak to modern audiences. Her instruments become both timekeeper and time machine, connecting orchestra halls to electronic festivals.
Mondo 2000 founder R.U. Sirius unpacks Bowie's remarkable evolution from hippie fellow traveler to critical observer, tracking the artist's fifty-year dialogue with American counterculture.
Between visual art and sonic experiments, Avi C. Engel's latest album 'Nocturne' weaves together ancient sounds, field recordings, and poetry into music that demands its own imaginary cinema.
From Alex Ross's expansive classical music history to Justin Walter's Lynchian trumpet notes, this week's picks traverse genres and decades with unexpected connections and revelations.
Three seasoned jazz musicians, 250 concerts, and one nonprofit later, Brooklyn's WORKS return with an album that captures their decade-long musical conversation.
From his early days with a guitar-shaped flyswatter to his current work with Alisa Rose in Scroggins & Rose, the mandolinist and writer shares stories of musical growth while exploring bluegrass's past and future.
Free jazz meets mysticism, Fourth World aesthetics find new disciples, and forgotten shoegaze gets its due. Welcome to 2025's inaugural collection of essential listening.
Mondo 2000 founder R.U. Sirius unpacks Bowie's remarkable evolution from hippie fellow traveler to critical observer, tracking the artist's fifty-year dialogue with American counterculture.
From Tupac's fear of reincarnation to Buddhist concepts of suffering, Kendrick Lamar weaves together hip-hop history and religious philosophy to examine what it means to return to life eternally — and whether such return might be the Devil's own prison.
In 1984, Rubén Blades wrote four stories of everyday people who vanished without explanation. Four decades and countless covers later, their ghostly presence still echoes through Latin American music, memory, and consciousness.
In "Watch The Party Die," Kendrick grapples with his calling as a musical prophet, torn between peaceful Christian ideals and the violent justice he feels compelled to deliver.
In a remarkable 1983 film set during World War II, two musical titans—David Bowie and Ryuichi Sakamoto—delivered haunting performances that helped create a meditation on humanity that resonates four decades later. Spoilers ahead.
On October 27th, after a break of almost a year and a half, Catalan artist Marina Herlop released her new album Nekkuja. As she speaks about the album – working on it was a process of finding and affirming the inner light.
Solarrio invites us into the bouncy groove of his latest release, “NLF”, a collaboration he made with fellow record producer/ artist and friend, Holland Izz, shedding light on the song’s organic genesis and the compelling fusion of 80s R&B/Funk legends' homage with their individual creative flair.
Abi Clements caught my attention the second I heard her voice resonate through the streets of Brighton on a rainy day of The Great Escape Festival last May.
The celebrated saxophonist talks about his place in the jazz tradition, playing with masters of the genre, and his soundtrack for the documentary With Peter Bradley.
From the heart of Naples, three buddies have brewed up something special, spreading their musical magic all over Italy. Blending rap, techno, and psychedelic punk, when they perform, it's not just a show, it's like a spark that lights up everything - from clubs to festivals.
The author grapples with the unknown and the extraordinary in his many books, which include Heroes In The Night, American Madness, and Monster Hunters.