ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz

We conclude our six-part Winter Music Preview with a slew of genres: not only those mentioned above, but doom, dub, raga, Afrobeat and more.  During this trip around the world, we’ll meet performers who operate as sonic chefs, spicing their

ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz

We conclude our six-part Winter Music Preview with a slew of genres: not only those mentioned above, but doom, dub, raga, Afrobeat and more.  During this trip around the world, we’ll meet performers who operate as sonic chefs, spicing their

ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Modern Composition

A change of direction, an anticipated collection and a slew of soundtracks mark the winter slate of releases in Modern Composition.  This music may be elegant, but it’s not just for highbrow audiences; a few of the albums below have

ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Modern Composition

A change of direction, an anticipated collection and a slew of soundtracks mark the winter slate of releases in Modern Composition.  This music may be elegant, but it’s not just for highbrow audiences; a few of the albums below have

ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Experimental

Here’s where the most unique music is found: the music that either captures the imagination or – in its use of abstraction, dissonance, atonalism and more – makes one swim back to the safety of shore.  While the outer edge

ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Experimental

Here’s where the most unique music is found: the music that either captures the imagination or – in its use of abstraction, dissonance, atonalism and more – makes one swim back to the safety of shore.  While the outer edge

ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Electronic

In a slight winter surprise, our largest preview is not ambient, but electronic.  Perhaps the winter release slate reflects a desire to dance the cold nights away, and to feel the warmth of summer in sweat rather than in sweaters.

ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Electronic

In a slight winter surprise, our largest preview is not ambient, but electronic.  Perhaps the winter release slate reflects a desire to dance the cold nights away, and to feel the warmth of summer in sweat rather than in sweaters.

ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Drone

If ambient music reflects the light of gently falling snow, drone represents the shift from gorgeous to dangerous: white-out conditions, howling winds, frigid temperatures, rattling pipes and overworked heaters.  Not that beauty is lacking from drone; the genre finds beauty

ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Drone

If ambient music reflects the light of gently falling snow, drone represents the shift from gorgeous to dangerous: white-out conditions, howling winds, frigid temperatures, rattling pipes and overworked heaters.  Not that beauty is lacking from drone; the genre finds beauty

ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Ambient

A new year, a fresh start, a clean slate: as we turn the page of the new year, we look forward to what it has to offer.  We hope it will bring health and happiness, prosperity and peace; but we

ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Ambient

A new year, a fresh start, a clean slate: as we turn the page of the new year, we look forward to what it has to offer.  We hope it will bring health and happiness, prosperity and peace; but we

Zakè & Benoît Pioulard ~ eve

While I’m not exactly what you’d call a “believer,” let alone a practicing anything, I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church, and like many Americans I have many positive associations with Christmastime. I’ve always especially loved Christmas Eve: The Feast

Zakè & Benoît Pioulard ~ eve

While I’m not exactly what you’d call a “believer,” let alone a practicing anything, I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church, and like many Americans I have many positive associations with Christmastime. I’ve always especially loved Christmas Eve: The Feast

Armand Hammer ~ We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

On the last verse of “As the Crow Flies,” the final track on billy woods and Kenny Segal’s Maps, released earlier in 2023, woods rhymes:  I’m in the park with the baby on the swings When it hits me crazy,

Armand Hammer ~ We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

On the last verse of “As the Crow Flies,” the final track on billy woods and Kenny Segal’s Maps, released earlier in 2023, woods rhymes:  I’m in the park with the baby on the swings When it hits me crazy,