Author: Jan Vranken

2025 was the year of the great old-school comebacks. Xzibit returned after thirteen years with “Kingmaker”, strongly supported by Conor McGregor’s Greenback Records and featuring Dr Dre, Ice

Some artists make albums. And then there is Christian Löffler, who builds experiences. The German producer and visual artist from the Baltic Sea region has developed his own

There is a moment on “Tongue Tied”, around thirty seconds after the beginning, when a keyboard riff floats upward that will immediately make any self-respecting music lover think

Imagine this: Paul Gilbert is sitting on a plane on his way home after the very last performance of Mr. Big at the Japanese Budokan. The band he

On February 27, 2026, Neil Sedaka passed away at the age of 86 in Los Angeles, after being taken to a hospital by ambulance earlier that morning. His

In an era where virtuosity is all too often confused with speed and technical acrobatics, Björn Meyer offers something radically different: restraint as revelation. On “Convergence,” his second

There are bands that embody a genre, and there are bands that invent one themselves. Gogol Bordello did both. Since Eugene Hütz unleashed his multicultural punk orchestra on

There are singers who move you and singers who impress you. Kurt Elling stubbornly falls into the latter category. The man once hailed by The New York Times

Three and a half years after ‘Like A Fable’, Shintaro Sakamoto returns with an album that feels like listening to a musical fever dream from Tokyo in 1967,

Thirty years is a long time to keep the psychedelic flame burning. Most bands from the Britpop era have either split up, reunited for nostalgia tours, or softened