In the year of 2023 artists from Tyla, Bad Bunny and NewJeans to Vagabon, Tems and Sofia Kourtesis continued to redefine the borders of contemporary pop, while Cassandra Miller covered Beethoven’s ‘Heiliger...
It’s an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never...
Between the portrait of the gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson which adorns the cover of the record and the sliver of ice ecstatically recalled in memory of her friend and mentor...
Now well into its second decade, the Coin Coin project by the saxophonist and mixed-media artist Matana Roberts continues to explore African-American history through a recuperative focus on memory and ancestry, summoning...
In the spring of 1971 the release of What’s Going On saw Marvin Gaye switch things up with a song cycle written from the perspective of a Vietnam War veteran, who returns...
Venturing out under his own name for Voices of Bishara, the Sons of Kemet and Smile drummer Tom Skinner drew inspiration from Abdul Wadud’s percussive approach to the cello and a jazz...
In lieu of a festival edition, Berlin Atonal revives its legendary imprint for the five-part compilation More Light. From Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, Daniel Lopatin dusts off his ‘Midday Suite’. ANOHNI covers...
The documentary Racing Extinction, directed by Louie Psihoyos – whose previous film The Cove, which investigated Japanese dolphin hunting, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2010 – looks at the ongoing...
Xiu Xiu – ‘Falling’ * * * ANOHNI – ‘Drone Bomb Me’ * * * Kelly Lee Owens – ‘1 of 3’ * * * Terrace Martin – ‘Think Of You’ (feat....