Posts Tagged: Spring Music Preview
ACL 2025 ~ Spring Music Preview: Modern Composition
Whether celebrating the new season or extending a feeling of peace, composing works about the color blue or new parenthood, or addressing our current societal crisis, these composers create a feeling that maybe everything will turn out all right. Connected
ACL 2025 ~ Spring Music Preview: Modern Composition
Whether celebrating the new season or extending a feeling of peace, composing works about the color blue or new parenthood, or addressing our current societal crisis, these composers create a feeling that maybe everything will turn out all right. Connected
ACL 2025 ~ Spring Music Preview: Experimental
Over a year ago, we predicted that experimental music would head in an even more multi-cultural, collaborative direction; this spring’s albums are the proof. Musicians from disparate genres guest star on each other’s albums, and in many cases co-compose. The
ACL 2025 ~ Spring Music Preview: Experimental
Over a year ago, we predicted that experimental music would head in an even more multi-cultural, collaborative direction; this spring’s albums are the proof. Musicians from disparate genres guest star on each other’s albums, and in many cases co-compose. The
ACL 2025 ~ Spring Music Preview ~ Electronic
Is industrial music making a comeback? From the sound of this season’s slate, it is. The darkness of the world seems to dictate its resurgence. We’ve chopped this preview into Light and Dark halves in order to highlight the contrast.
ACL 2025 ~ Spring Music Preview ~ Electronic
Is industrial music making a comeback? From the sound of this season’s slate, it is. The darkness of the world seems to dictate its resurgence. We’ve chopped this preview into Light and Dark halves in order to highlight the contrast.
ACL 2025 ~ Spring Music Preview: Drone
After yesterday’s massive article of ambient album announcements there arrives a smaller but no less potent collection of drone. Ironically, despite being a smaller segment of the market, drone recordings tend to find disproportionate success in our Year-End Lists. Two
ACL 2025 ~ Spring Music Preview: Drone
After yesterday’s massive article of ambient album announcements there arrives a smaller but no less potent collection of drone. Ironically, despite being a smaller segment of the market, drone recordings tend to find disproportionate success in our Year-End Lists. Two
ACL 2025 ~ Spring Music Preview: Ambient
Stay calm; there is still beauty in the world. One can glean this message in this season’s ambient releases, many of which draw inspiration from springtime, the great outdoors, the environment and the cyclical nature of the seasons. There are
ACL 2025 ~ Spring Music Preview: Ambient
Stay calm; there is still beauty in the world. One can glean this message in this season’s ambient releases, many of which draw inspiration from springtime, the great outdoors, the environment and the cyclical nature of the seasons. There are
ACL 2024 ~ Spring Music Preview: Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz
The final segment of our Spring Music Preview covers releases in a variety of genres, symbolizing the vitality of the industry. We’re super-excited about spring, and this is only the tip of the (melting) iceberg. This week we’ve covered hundreds
ACL 2024 ~ Spring Music Preview: Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz
The final segment of our Spring Music Preview covers releases in a variety of genres, symbolizing the vitality of the industry. We’re super-excited about spring, and this is only the tip of the (melting) iceberg. This week we’ve covered hundreds
ACL 2024 ~ Spring Music Preview: Modern Composition
This year’s spring slate is packed with so much sweetness, it can hardly be contained. From solo piano albums to chamber orchestras, ballet to film scores, entire worlds are represented. Some artists find a Crayola box of timbres in a
ACL 2024 ~ Spring Music Preview: Modern Composition
This year’s spring slate is packed with so much sweetness, it can hardly be contained. From solo piano albums to chamber orchestras, ballet to film scores, entire worlds are represented. Some artists find a Crayola box of timbres in a
ACL 2024 ~ Spring Music Preview: Jazz & Improvisation
We usually separate jazz into our Experimental and Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz sections, but this season there’s so much of it (in pure and improvised forms) that we’ve given it a spotlight. This being said, we hope that our
ACL 2024 ~ Spring Music Preview: Jazz & Improvisation
We usually separate jazz into our Experimental and Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz sections, but this season there’s so much of it (in pure and improvised forms) that we’ve given it a spotlight. This being said, we hope that our
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