Daily Newsletter, August 23, 2023

Album review

CORDOVAS THE ROSE OF ACES ATO RECORDS These days, Americana music space is getting crowded with artists coming up with some high-quality music that spreads across genres with quite some ease. Still, even with such quality around, for whatever reason, only a few stand out as exceptional. It could be just the music that switches […]

On his latest single "Serenity," Dutch composer Maarten Rischen shows what a good post-classical/ambient combination should sound like.

Today 21/8/23 we bring to you our hottest finds of the week. We have curated a list of the best releases from our musical travels

When Lizzo’s dancers accused her of misdeeds in an Amsterdam strip club, it caused outrage. So is the kind of on-tour debauchery made famous by bands like Led Zeppelin now passé?

An incredible, era-defining record.

Forty years on from the magnificent sequence that began with Swordfishtrombones, collaborators and fans including Jim Jarmusch and Thom Yorke discuss Waits’s journey from bar-room balladeer to conductor of a junkyard orchestra

Five of the best counterfactual novels, as recommended by Catherine Lacey—author of Biography of X, and Pew

Al Green has released a cover of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day.” “I loved Lou’s original ‘Perfect Day,'” Green said in a statement. “The song immediately puts you in a good mood. We wanted to preserve that spirit, while adding our own sauce and style.” Green recorded last year with producers Matthew Johnson and Bruce Watson at Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, and he recruited some members of the Hi Rhythm Section house band that he worked with in the ’70s to play it with him in the studio.