Daily Newsletter, September 22, 2023

PENELOPE ANTENA JAMES AND JUNE YOUNGBLOODS & PARAPENTE MUSIC If the excellence of James And June, the new album by Penelope Antena, comes as a bit of a shock to the uninitiated, it shouldn’t be. First of all, Antena is the granddaughter of pianist and jazz-rock pioneer Marc Moulin (Placebo, Telex) and daughter of electro-samba […]

JENNY OWEN YOUNGS AVALANCHE YEP ROC RECORDS There might not have been an album for a decade from Jenny Owen Youngs until Avalanche, her latest, but that doesn’t mean that she was standing still. In those ten years, she’s toured the world, co-written a #1 hit single, launched a wildly popular podcast, landed a book […]

THE MATINEE CHANGE OF SCENE INDEPENDENT After 15 years on the scene, sticking to your guns by remaining within a genre (in this case roots, Americana/Canadian), you might expect an artist or a band to show the signs of getting tired, or being stuck in a rut. Vancouver’s The Matinee played so many shows in […]

Lessons from a month of celebrities who don’t know when to stop talking.

Leo Chadburn speaks to composer Gavin Bryars, who introduces a personal selection of ten tracks from his discography, ahead of a number of 80th birthday concerts celebrating his unique music

Two sides of the same musical coin.

A new report from crypto researchers dappGambl estimates that 23 million investors own NFTs that have no effective monetary value.

In 2009 the classic line-up of Gong reunited – and recorded a brand new album 2032. This is the story

Rattle and waltz with us through a ziggy summer of sense.

These were the 11 most banned books of the 2022-2023 school year, according to PEN America's Index of Banned Books. The banned book list 2023 includes Tricks and The Bluest Eye.