Daily Newsletter, June 1, 2024

Beth Gibbons seems to have that slow-evolving, meticulous songwriting and arranging process, scrutinizing every note, every word placed in the lyrics. For some artists, such a process makes no difference in the final result, but with Gibbons, as evidenced here, the results are no less than mesmerizi

With her latest album, 'Moonstone & Tar Sands', composer/vocalist Leila Adu, transcends genres, coming up with some quite personal music that easily reaches listeners.

Wu-Tang Clan's infamous 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' album will be a centerpiece of an exhibit at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art.

The Pine Hill Haints is an American band known for its unique blend of musical styles, drawing inspiration from traditional folk, bluegrass, country, and, to a

Bat For Lashes reflects on motherhood in her first album for five years, ‘The Dream of Delphi’, an ethereal avant-pop gem. Read more here.

For those who know Gnod as purveyors of the sort of music that suits getting blasted and waving your arms around, new album Spot Land might at first come as something of a shock. 2022’s Hexen Valley was a trans-Pennine bad trip with hints of the later Fall-era’s sludgy intensity but with (given the title, appropriately) bad-vibes murk, as […]

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Crosby, Stills & Nash's "California sound"-defining self-titled debut album was released 55 years ago, on May 29, 1969.

Car, Scratch, Melt and Security log the incredible distance he covered between leaving Genesis and creating So

Say you were a fan of Steven Spielberg’s moving coming-of-age drama Empire of the Sun, set in a Japanese internment camp during World War II and starring a young Christian Bale. Say you read the autobiographical novel on which that film is based, written by one J.G. Ballard.