Now Watch This: Ride away the summer on these 5 new music videos
It's all in the visuals for this second installation of our music video column—with new work from Fontaines D.C., Frank Ivy, Sylvan Esso, and more.
Star producer Ricky Reed steps back from the mic on ‘The Room’
Grammy-winning beatmaker talks life after notorious electro project Wallpaper., and how catching up with friends morphed into new album.
Remembering Kool & The Gang’s perpetual reincarnation, in the wake of Ronald Bell’s passing
The legendary group maintained a five-decade career through reinvention—and its cofounder's expansive songwriting.
All Ears: 25 new albums for fall survival
From Sade and Róisín Murphy to Hot Chip and the Flaming Lips, here are the sounds you'll need to keep your own world spinning.
Qur’an Shaheed offers meditative frequencies on debut EP ‘Process’
Her boom-bap self-help hits all the right notes, assisted by musicians well-versed in satellite orbit neo-soul.
The genius of Chadwick Boseman’s James Brown
In the James Brown bio-pic Get On Up from 2014, actor Chadwick Boseman presented the American composer and bandleader in the same manner life presented itself to Brown from a...
SF Symphony dives into diverse local sounds with online ‘Currents’
"Music isn't just about an end result. It's about what people do and how people come into things," conductor Michael Morgan told me over the phone. "While symphonic music...
New Music: Big Joanie, Eki Shola, Osees, Clipping., more deliver fall-ready tunes
August may be fading into fall, but the music in 2020 keeps on a-coming.
Here are some joints resonating with us.
PSA: STOP MURDERING BLACK PEOPLE. WE JUST WANT TO LIVE.
Buscrates,...
Review: Pandemica! Metallica jams (safely) at the drive-in
For decades, some of the greatest pleasures that have made me feel like me have involved attending and writing about concerts and music festivals. So something in my dead soul...
On experimental duo Matmos’ latest, 99 is the magic number (and collaboration is key)
M.C. Schmidt of Matmos waves a limp assemblage of taped-together scraps of paper in front of his computer camera. “This is the third hour, this is the second hour,”...
