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Tracks of the Week 11.09.21

Tracks of the Week
This week the drummer and bandleader Johnathan Blake lingers lightly over the life of Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, the daughter of the saxophonist Jimmy Greene and flautist Nelba Márquez-Greene, who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting almost a decade ago. Conjuring her lively presence and the blessing of her birth, Blake pays a form of tribute to his...

Tracks of the Week 26.06.21

Tracks of the Week
This week on Icons the percussionist and composer Eli Keszler makes abstract expressionism out of the cultural detritus of New York. Matt Sweeney and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, the Superwolves together with Emmett Kelly, find tranquility among the pack at the Apex Protection Project in Los Angeles. And Angel Bat Dawid speaks to the spirituality of Sunday mornings in her...

Tracks of the Week 01.05.21

Tracks of the Week
The frames of reference and sly subversions arrive preloaded on the screen: Marilyn Monroe with some of the accoutrements of glitching cyberspace, old Hollywood musicals buoyed by driving percussion, the blue lodge atmosphere of The Bang Bang Bar swaddled in neon lights. But on her debut album, straight out of the City of Angels, the Los Angeles native Glüme...