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.
Melding Steve Reich's cyclical patterns with club music's magnetic pull, this unconventional trio of piano, clarinet, and drums transforms mathematical precision into pure physical motion.
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.
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.
Since 2007, Michel Gentile, Daniel Kelly, and Rob Garcia have done far more than practice. Their new album 'Scouring For The Elements' reveals how life, art, and community shaped their distinctive jazz sound.
Exploring the Seattle composer's unique vision of music as a continuous spectrum, where the boundaries between improvisation and composition disappear.
The Seattle-based singer and composer reflects on familial influences, spiritual connections through music, and the transformative power of performance, while championing diversity in classical and contemporary spaces.
Drawing from classical training and jazz freedom, the South Korean pianist invites audiences to help create each performance. Her new album 'Improvisations Live in Germany' captures these magical moments of musical alchemy.
The acclaimed saxophonist discusses genre fluidity, Wayne Shorter's wisdom, and why limitations can unlock creativity on his adventurous new album 'Unusual Object.'
From church piano lessons to collaborations with McCoy Tyner, the celebrated bassist reflects on his musical journey while discussing his latest album, 'I Am My Neighbor's Keeper,' a multimedia response to America's social divisions.
After a hand injury sidelined his violin playing, the Calgary-based composer created 'Odd Stillness,' an album that challenges traditional notions of performance and recording.
A seasoned film and television composer discovers creative liberation in a 24-string electronic instrument that bridges ancient African tradition with space-age design. The result is 'New Modern Strings.'
India Gailey's new album 'Butterfly Lightning Shakes The Earth' showcases her dual talents as composer and cellist, blending climate change awareness with Buddhist philosophy in a groundbreaking orchestral work.
Balancing innovation and tradition, the saxophonist's latest project features original compositions and reimagined Monk standards, demonstrating his versatility across two distinct trio settings.
The English composer's musical palette ranges from Chuck Berry to Karlheinz Stockhausen. Lewis John Gill reflects on his artistic journey, dream collaborations, and the enduring appeal of progressive rock.
Tabla virtuoso Shawn Mativetsky discusses the instrument's complexity, the guru-disciple tradition, and his latest album 'Temporal Waves,' which marries classical Indian percussion with synthesizer soundscapes.