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from48 hills
15 hours ago

At the Warfield, Baroque pop avatar Oklou emerged a star - 48 hills

Oklou blends Baroque pop with modern elements, creating a unique sound that resonates with a niche audience in the hyperpop scene.
fromwww.theguardian.com
15 hours ago

Jean-Michel Jarre urges music and film industries to embrace AI

Jarre stated that while the existing creative industries were freaking out over the technology, artists would use AI to create the cinema of tomorrow, the hip-hop of tomorrow, the techno of tomorrow, the rock'n'roll of tomorrow.
Intellectual property law
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fromPitchfork
1 day ago

Tiga, Massive Attack, and Nine Inch Noize: This Week's Pitchfork Selects Playlist

Pitchfork Selects playlist showcases favorite new music from staff, featuring diverse artists and tracks.
NYC music
fromPitchfork
6 days ago

PPP (Piezo, Plead & Python): "Wisco"

PPP's 'Wisco' is a standout track for summer 2023, blending deep house and unique sound design for a dancefloor experience.
NYC music
fromGothamist
1 day ago

How a Brooklyn musician uses her Norwegian fiddle to make a sound all her own

Zosha Warpeha records an album in a historic Brooklyn theater, using the space's acoustics as an integral part of her music.
Music
fromPitchfork
1 day ago

Frog: Frog for Sale

Daniel Bateman's creative process emphasizes prolific output, allowing for experimentation and growth despite not always achieving perfection.
NYC music
fromGothamist
1 day ago

How a Brooklyn musician uses her Norwegian fiddle to make a sound all her own

Zosha Warpeha records an album in a historic Brooklyn theater, using the space's acoustics as an integral part of her music.
Music production
fromPitchfork
1 day ago

Tiga, Massive Attack, and Nine Inch Noize: This Week's Pitchfork Selects Playlist

Pitchfork Selects playlist showcases favorite new music from staff, featuring diverse artists and tracks.
NYC music
fromPitchfork
6 days ago

PPP (Piezo, Plead & Python): "Wisco"

PPP's 'Wisco' is a standout track for summer 2023, blending deep house and unique sound design for a dancefloor experience.
Writing
fromThe Atlantic
15 hours ago

Peter Hujar's Photos Are All the Rage. He'd Be Shocked.

Peter Hujar's work, characterized by its handmade quality and erotic portraiture, is gaining renewed attention decades after his death.
Arts
fromMission Local
6 hours ago

Review - Smuin Ballet's Future Forward

The show 'Future Forward' features a mix of classic and contemporary ballets, highlighting themes of lineage and connection.
SF music
fromFuncheap
19 hours ago

SF Neo-Futurists "The Infinite Wrench" (30 Plays in 60 Minutes, every Fri & Sat)

The Infinite Wrench features 30 unique plays performed by the San Francisco Neo-Futurists, with audience participation determining the order.
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

We did a seance for Beethoven, to see what he thought': the playful, pioneering life of field-recording maestro Annea Lockwood

Annea Lockwood transforms pianos through destruction, exploring their evolving sounds and pioneering field recordings since the 1960s.
Humor
fromVulture
4 days ago

Julio Torres's Second Brain

Julio Torres skillfully blends his persona with creativity, showcasing insights through his notebooks filled with ideas for performances, designs, and writing projects.
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fromPitchfork
6 hours ago

Baauer's Announces First Album in Six Years, Shares New Single

Baauer's new album 'U' features 16 tracks and aims to deliver 'super happy music' inspired by early 2000s dance genres.
NYC music
fromBrooklynVegan
1 day ago

Tour news: Sparta, Violent Femmes, Mac DeMarco, Wednesday, Book of Love, Balmora, more

Numerous artists have announced upcoming tours and shows across various locations in the U.S.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
7 hours ago

Joan Semmel & Rama Duwaji

MoMA PS1's 'Greater New York' survey showcases early-career artists and captures the essence of New York City.
London music
fromPitchfork
1 day ago

Handle: COLLIDE

Handle's second album COLLIDE features a unique blend of sounds and spontaneous creativity, defying conventional music narratives.
SF music
fromFuncheap
3 days ago

Free Vinyl Night w/ Circuit73 + Special Guests (SF)

An eclectic vinyl music event featuring DJ Circuit73 and guests at 540 Bar in San Francisco.
Music
fromSPIN
4 days ago

Failure Finds New, Fertile Ground On 'Location Lost' - SPIN

Failure's seventh album showcases their unique chemistry and sonic exploration, defying typical rock expectations and featuring notable collaborations.
Berlin music
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
4 days ago

Thomas Azier releases his most personal work to date. Exploring love, illness, and his upcoming album PANORAMA - KALTBLUT Magazine

Thomas Azier's new works reflect his personal journey through love and illness, culminating in the album 'PANORAMA' set for release in 2027.
fromPitchfork
12 hours ago

Patti Smith, Morrissey Booked for CBGB Festival 2026

The event is set for Saturday, September 26 at Brooklyn's Under the K Bridge Park, which also hosts the annual Pride festival LadyLand.
NYC music
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Genesis P-Orridge's Subversive Mail-Art Goes on View

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's mail art from the 1970s is showcased in a focused exhibition at Art Metropole, highlighting their early career and subversive practices.
London music
fromwww.london-unattached.com
3 days ago

Dorrance Dance, The Centre Will Not Hold

Michelle Dorrance's new production, The Centre Will Not Hold, integrates tap dance with various urban dance styles, showcasing a collaborative and innovative approach.
Berlin music
fromwww.nytimes.com
4 days ago

Nico Muhly, Stephen Hough and Alondra de la Parra on the Most Difficult Pieces of Classical Music They Composed, Conducted or Performed

Composers face challenges in creating works that blend historical and contemporary themes, requiring innovative approaches to composition.
#wendy-eisenberg
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fromPitchfork
1 week ago

Wendy Eisenberg: Wendy Eisenberg

Wendy Eisenberg embraces love songs with newfound confidence, exploring themes of happiness and vulnerability in their latest work.
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fromSPIN
2 weeks ago

Wendy Eisenberg Unplugs and Taps In - SPIN

Wendy Eisenberg's music blends introspective folk with experimental elements, showcasing a shift towards conventional instrumentation while maintaining an underlying weirdness.
Writing
fromPitchfork
1 week ago

Wendy Eisenberg: Wendy Eisenberg

Wendy Eisenberg embraces love songs with newfound confidence, exploring themes of happiness and vulnerability in their latest work.
Music production
fromSPIN
2 weeks ago

Wendy Eisenberg Unplugs and Taps In - SPIN

Wendy Eisenberg's music blends introspective folk with experimental elements, showcasing a shift towards conventional instrumentation while maintaining an underlying weirdness.
fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Jule Korneffel Finds Meaning at the End of Light

Korneffel develops a palette for each painting based on research and intuition, paying particular attention to the paint's viscosity and its capacity for making distinct kinds of marks.
Arts
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from48 hills
1 month ago

Lucrecia Dalt: 'How lucky are we to land at the core of this vibration?' - 48 hills

Lucrecia Dalt's latest album A Danger to Ourselves explores love as a transformative force that drives people toward uncertainty and risk, reflecting her personal creative shift from conceptual frameworks to intimate storytelling.
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fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Listen to this: Mabe Fratti's experimental cello pop

Mabe Fratti's 2024 album Sentir Que No Sabes blends new age, industrial, and folk elements into cohesive pop-influenced experimental music.
Music production
from48 hills
1 month ago

Lucrecia Dalt: 'How lucky are we to land at the core of this vibration?' - 48 hills

Lucrecia Dalt's latest album A Danger to Ourselves explores love as a transformative force that drives people toward uncertainty and risk, reflecting her personal creative shift from conceptual frameworks to intimate storytelling.
Music production
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Listen to this: Mabe Fratti's experimental cello pop

Mabe Fratti's 2024 album Sentir Que No Sabes blends new age, industrial, and folk elements into cohesive pop-influenced experimental music.
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Sean Shibe: Vesper review ever imaginative guitar virtuouso brings mind-expanding flights of fancy

Sean Shibe's new album showcases the guitar's expressive potential through works by three British composers, blending traditional forms with imaginative interpretations.
Music
fromPitchfork
4 days ago

Souled American: Sanctions

Souled American created a unique sound that influenced many but was never widely replicated, leading to their eventual obscurity.
NYC music
fromVulture
1 day ago

Jerry Saltz's '90s Art World

The end of the 1980s marked a shift in the art world, leading to new opportunities amidst a market recession.
Arts
fromwww.nytimes.com
4 days ago

7 Key Works of Avant-Garde Theater

Avant-garde theater originated in 19th-century France, emphasizing social reform and innovative artistic expression to critique mainstream culture.
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Add to playlist: the sweaty, unvarnished electropop of Punchbag and the week's best new tracks

Punchbag's music blends 90s rave and electropop, evolving from chaotic energy to darker themes in their latest EPs.
fromPitchfork
6 days ago

The Field Announces First Project in Eight Years

Axel Willner's new album 'Now You Exist' features five songs of meditative ambient techno and drone, showcasing his signature sound and artistic evolution.
Berlin music
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fromBrooklynVegan
1 week ago

Genghis Tron announce new album, share "I Am All"

Genghis Tron will release their fourth album, Signal Fire, on June 12, featuring a new lineup and co-produced with Seth Manchester.
#minimalism
Music production
fromwww.nytimes.com
4 days ago

Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never Picks 5 Essential Minimalist Compositions

Minimalist music, popularized in the 1960s, emphasizes repetition and process, influencing contemporary immersive music and film scores.
Music production
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Bill Orcutt: Music in Continuous Motion

Bill Orcutt creates layered guitar compositions using software to explore minimalism through evolving drones and subtle temporal shifts.
Music production
fromwww.nytimes.com
4 days ago

Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never Picks 5 Essential Minimalist Compositions

Minimalist music, popularized in the 1960s, emphasizes repetition and process, influencing contemporary immersive music and film scores.
Music production
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Bill Orcutt: Music in Continuous Motion

Bill Orcutt creates layered guitar compositions using software to explore minimalism through evolving drones and subtle temporal shifts.
fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

Art Talk With Rama Duwaji

In what became a standard studio visit, I discovered a humble and thoughtful artist who refuses to use her celebrity for easy career gains.
Arts
London music
fromBrooklynVegan
6 days ago

clipping announce NYC 'Splendor & Misery' fest ft. SPELLLING, Shabazz Palaces, Elucid, Fatboi Sharif, more

clipping will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their album Splendor & Misery with a special NYC show on August 13.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

Harry Bertoia Gets His Moment

Harry Bertoia's long-lost sculpture resurfaces in Detroit, prompting a retrospective at Cranbrook Academy of Art for the artist's 90th anniversary.
fromPitchfork
6 days ago

Oneohtrix Point Never Shares New Song "Dim Stars"

Oneohtrix Point Never has released a two-track single, led by an original called 'Dim Stars.' The B-side, 'For Residue (Extended),' is a meditative version of the Tranquilizer track.
London music
NYC music
fromwww.amny.com
6 days ago

Where NYC finds its voice: Inside Michael Minelli's Step to the Mike' | amNewYork

Step to the Mike transforms New York City sidewalks into live platforms for discovering raw musical talent.
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fromSPIN
4 days ago

Sean Solomon's Busy, Messed-Up World - SPIN

Sean Solomon's solo debut blends whimsical animation with disillusioned songwriting, showcasing a clean folk sound influenced by indie music of the 2000s.
Berlin music
fromwww.amny.com
1 week ago

Inheritance in sound: Young Concert Artists and the future of music

Music is an inheritance that preserves human feeling, and institutions like Young Concert Artists are essential for fostering talent and ensuring its future.
NYC music
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More

Aadam Jacobs' concert recording archive preserves over 10,000 performances, now accessible through the Internet Archive.
Music production
fromPitchfork
5 days ago

Lyra Pramuk Announces Hymnal (Resung) and Shares New Djrum Rework

Lyra Pramuk's EP 'Hymnal (Resung)' features reworks from various artists, emphasizing themes of ecological grief and spiritual invocation.
Arts
fromwww.amny.com
5 days ago

Marcel Duchamp: The mind above the hand | amNewYork

Abstraction in art emerges through radical recalibrations, with Marcel Duchamp exemplifying a shift from representation to conceptual exploration.
Music production
from48 hills
4 days ago

Under the Stars: Irreversible Entanglements channel peace vibrations - 48 hills

Irreversible Entanglements' album 'Future Present Past' showcases a unique blend of free jazz and punk, emphasizing themes of resilience and trauma.
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Add to playlist: the endlessly inventive, radiant indie rock of Friko and the week's best new tracks

Friko's second album, Something Worth Waiting For, explores themes of yearning and growth through inventive indie rock sounds.
fromArtnet News
6 days ago

Painting Has Entered Its Performance Era | Artnet News

Much of Instagram's video content is organized around transformation-the virtual magic of the before-and-after and clips that show cause and effect. A person makes pasta from scratch in 20 seconds via edits that compress time-intensive labor.
Arts
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
2 weeks ago

Gost's James Lollar has died

James Cody Lollar, known as GOST, has passed away at age 46, leaving behind a legacy as a talented artist in the synthwave genre.
fromBrooklynVegan
2 weeks ago

No Fun Fest returns to NYC with Lee Ranaldo, Zola Jesus, Bill Nace, Nate Wooley, more

No Fun Fest returns to NYC for the first time since 2009 as No Fun New Perspectives, a three-day event featuring avant-garde and improvisational music.
NYC music
Music production
fromBrooklynVegan
5 days ago

Indie Basement (4/17): Nine Inch Noize, Jessie Ware, more

Nine Inch Nails collaborates with Boys Noize for a reimagined album, blending live and studio recordings of their classic songs.
Music production
fromSPIN
6 days ago

Amanda Bynes Launches Into Space with EDM Track "Girlfriend" Featuring Fenix Flexin - SPIN

Amanda Bynes' new dance track 'Girlfriend' offers a fresh EDM sound with catchy lyrics and engaging production.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

The Museum Breathing Life Into New York's Downtown Performance Scene

The Leslie-Lohman Museum connects art with the needs of the queer community amidst political challenges.
fromPitchfork
1 week ago

upsammy / Valentina Magaletti: Seismo

Drummers' timekeeping is fluid; even at its most rocksteady, it's enlivened by tiny, imperceptible pauses and hiccups. Sequencers and drum machines, on the other hand, march in lockstep.
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fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Room for the Moon is thrillingly weird experimental pop

The opener "Not Not Not" is almost goofy, its chaotic melodies constantly dancing around each other in a perpetually disorienting way. It lurches forward asymmetrically, grooving like a flat tire.
Music production
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fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Rare Rauschenberg Experimental Dance Revived at Brooklyn Roller Rink

The Trisha Brown Dance Company is reviving Robert Rauschenberg's 1963 dance 'Pelican' for the first time in 60 years at a Brooklyn event.
Music production
fromPaste Magazine
1 week ago

Meet EXO-TECH: An improvisational collective in NYC

EXO-TECH is a collective of musicians led by Sophia Brous and Kimbra, blending diverse styles in a vibrant live performance setting.
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

The Intermediate States of Eliane Radigue

Her slowly shifting synthesizer compositions and quiet, meditative pieces for acoustic instruments continue to inspire a deep immersion in their audiences, and her recordings and writings have influenced multiple generations of musicians worldwide.
Berlin music
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fromPitchfork
2 weeks ago

Daryl Groetsch: Fathoms

Daryl Groetsch's music as Pulse Emitter reflects a deep influence from New Age music, particularly from the 'Hearts of Space' radio station.
NYC music
fromBrooklynVegan
1 month ago

Haute & Freddy played the secret theater at Port Authority Bus Terminal (pics, video)

Los Angeles alt-pop duo Haute and Freddy released their debut LP Big Disgrace and celebrated with intimate NYC performances and fan events.
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fromLos Angeles Times
3 weeks ago

Irreversible Entanglements refuses to make 'safe' free jazz - and the genre is better for it

Camae Ayewa, known as Moor Mother, is a multifaceted artist blending genres and activism in her music and creative endeavors.
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
1 month ago

Notable Releases of the Week (3/13)

A weekly music roundup covers R.E.M. tribute news, Piebald's first album in 15 years, and multiple new releases across genres including Kim Gordon's experimental followup to The Collective.
SF music
from48 hills
2 months ago

Alexi Kenney packs nocturnal energy, psychedelic fantasy into SoundBox - 48 hills

SoundBox presents an immersive, late‑night multimedia music experience combining surround sound, entrancing visuals, theatrical performance, and cocktails in a casual lounge atmosphere.
Music production
fromPitchfork
3 weeks ago

James K Launches Friend Remix Album With New Tracks From Objekt and Jasss

James K announced a remix album featuring Objekt's first remix in over a decade and contributions from various artists.
fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Organ Tapes: (Yi Bao Yan)

Tim Zha is looking for the soul in the machine. While some might hear Auto-Tune as masking a singer's humanity, the London-based artist filters his vocals to highlight technology's inseparability with our notions of self. This is ground well-trodden by Afrofuturist techno pioneers, Atlanta trappers, and PC Music hyperpoppers; for Zha, Auto-Tune represents what he calls the "coincidence of human subjectivity and the networked machine system."
London music
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fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Brendon Moeller: Shadow Language

Brendon Moeller reinvents dub techno into 170 BPM drum'n'bass-infused, atmospheric tracks that emphasize texture and subtraction of rhythm over conventional beats.
London music
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Ben Vince: Street Druid

Ben Vince evolved from solo saxophone looping into collaborative compositions, culminating in his album Street Druid, which features more elaborate and enduring structures while maintaining his mystical, searching tone.
Music production
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

New York hip-hop experimentalist Elucid: I like the harmony of the city. Everybody's got a little solo'

Elucid experiences the Dream House installation's meditative drone composition, which triggers his creative process through sensory immersion and unconscious sound-to-word associations.
fromSPIN
2 months ago

Ragger Take Ragtime to the Warp Zone - SPIN

"Many found the music offensive, the dancing objectionable, and the popularity of both with young people verging on a mental health crisis." So writes music historian Susan C. Cook about ragtime, the heavily syncopated ancestor of jazz that arose in the late 1800s. Like all things, ragtime's subversiveness faded over time, and, a century later, the works of Scott Joplin and other practitioners had been relegated to carnivals and fairs, their jaunty piano melodies now evoking quaint notions of old-timey fun.
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fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Legendary composer Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and 'AI'

Laurie Spiegel's 1986 Music Mouse, an 'intelligent instrument' enabling algorithmic music via an XY mouse grid, is being revived for modern machines with Eventide.
Music
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
2 months ago

Choosing the Artificial Over the Real in Dash Hammerstein's "Noise Machine" - KALTBLUT Magazine

Dash Hammerstein blends Americana songwriting and filmmaking to create intimate, melody-driven songs and film scores that mix folk-pop sensibility with subtle production flourishes.
Music
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

A Pioneer of Electronic Music Reanimates Old Songs

Beverly Glenn-Copeland created influential electronic music, achieved underground recognition decades after self-releasing "Keyboard Fantasies," and recently recorded a new album amid hardship.
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fromPitchfork
2 months ago

The Messthetics / James Brandon Lewis: Deface the Currency

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis fused post-punk and avant-jazz into an intensified, integrated debut emphasizing deeper funk, harsher noise, and richer beauty.
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt Share First Songs From Collaborative Album

I connected a lot with his music and I had no idea that years later we would be collaborating! It was a total surprise that we started chatting on the internet about collaborating! We bounced ideas back and forth, all starting with a series of guitar solo stuff that Bill sent me.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Morton Feldman's Music of Stillness

Morton Feldman's slow, minimal, and softly textured music offers an unhurried refuge from algorithmic noise and deeply influences contemporary composers.
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fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

This music video captures the spirit of jazz drumming with musical glyphs and a nod to synesthesia

A visual film explores jazz music by assigning shapes to different drum sounds, creating a synesthetic experience where music transforms into colors and graphics.
from48 hills
1 month ago

Noise Pop Diary: SML cooked at SFJAZZ-all sauce, no Butterss - 48 hills

Intense listening capabilities from these exquisite players which required, more than anything else, a great deal of trust. They posited about thematic structures, which somehow got agreed upon, live in the moment through a collective groupthink. Right there on stage. No words spoken, just an exchange of bizarrely intense looks. Ranging from 'we're almost there' to 'don't you dare.' That's trust, people.
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