Daily Newsletter, March 20, 2025

Got some blues this week, Carolynn Wonderland and Ollee Owens. Plus Ariana Grade’s new album and the very fu and playful Cuarteto De Nos.

Browse the best of the new releases on AllMusic

Music of the True North, boxing days, the Bobbsey Twins as vocabulary builders, no soul radio (see also: Mark. 8 Verses 34 to 38), patriotic verb clusters, and remembering David Johansen.

Curated by Mitch Mosk, this week's Editor's Picks features music from Attention Bird Utopia, Your Smith, Bo Staloch, Matilda Mann, Courting, & ESKA!

Michał Fundowicz is a tape enthusiast through and through. He runs the Molt Fluid cassette label which unites experimenters working in fields loosely adjacent to sound art and musique concrète but with a DIY, homemade spirit – think somewhere between GRM and Siltbreeze and you’ll get an idea of Molt Fluid’s aesthetic. He also hosts […]

The German music innovator discusses his journey from playing in the original iteration of Kraftwerk to bringing live sounds to Los Angeles’ Intuition Festival this weekend at The Broad.

Gigspanner Big Band’s ‘Turnstone’ is a great example of how traditional song can provide a template for exciting new musical discovery. It’s also a career-defining release from one of folk’s most powerfully creative groups.

While Paul McCartney and George Harrison collaborated on a lot of music, this is the only Beatles song officially credited to them as a duo and no one else.

How good is 'The Electric State?' Here are some thoughts.

Beth Harris puts it in the new Smarthistory video above. Throughout its fifteen minutes, she and her colleague Steven Zucker explain as much as possible of this jam-packed triptych — not that even a lifetime would be long enough to understand it fully.