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New Music: 5 transporting mixes to get you through

John-Paul Shiver - May 8, 2020

An effective mix incorporates obvious and hazy ideas, all at once, put together in the most artful way. Maybe it's for that living room...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: How Weird (that everything is virtual now)

Marke B. - April 30, 2020

As we move farther toward festival season, it's really dawning that our hugest events will take place on our screens. It's not like we...

New Music: DJ Amir unearths jazz-fusion communiqué ‘The Jupiter Effect’

John-Paul Shiver - April 29, 2020

Long before the Berlin-based DJ and producer Amir Abdullah became an esteemed music archivist, flying around the globe on the lecture circuit, discussing with...

Support musicians directly this Friday!

John-Paul Shiver - April 27, 2020

Bandcamp is waiving its revenue share again on May 1, looking out for independent artists right now. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the...

Culture

‘Hip-hop to Hamilton’ urges youth to pursue arts careers, despite COVID

Emily Wilson - April 22, 2020

Lily Ling, the music director and conductor for the tour of Hamilton, says we need the arts now more than ever. She saw that working...

New Music: Yves Tumor rumbles, soars with ‘Heaven to a Tortured Mind’

John-Paul Shiver - April 19, 2020

When conducting a Google search for interviews with Yves Tumor, trying to get a handle on one who stays slippery with their personals, the...

New Music: On Thundercat’s ‘It is What It Is,’ a fusion of love, life, loss

John-Paul Shiver - April 12, 2020

"Funk is anything it needs to be in order to save my life," soothsaid George Clinton, the Godfather of the Funk, into my ear over the phone sometime in...

New Music: Yazmin Lacey’s ‘Morning Matters’ keeps a high vibration

John-Paul Shiver - April 9, 2020

It is unfortunate that everything we read, do, and check, as in Right Now, gets processed through a ʻcrisisʻ prism. As much as I...

New Music: Isaac Aesili’s ‘Hidden Truths’ brings elegant electronic grooves

John-Paul Shiver - April 1, 2020

Released just a couple of weeks after the spring equinox, Issac Aesiliʻs sophomore release unfurls before a turbulent planet with the elegant poise of jejune lilies...

50 years of Jimi Hendrix’s radical, redefining ‘Band of Gypsys’

John-Paul Shiver - March 25, 2020

By the time Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsys—released on Capitol Records March 25, 1970—came together for their two-night performance at the Fillmore East on New Years 1970, with...

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