When the pitch-black, claustrophobic sounds of the HBO series “Chernobyl” seeped into my living room, I immediately knew that someone with a rare talent for translating emotional devastation
The People Who Can’t Handle Jazz: What a Hollywood Movie Taught Me About Ambiguity, Improvisation, and Why Some Minds Need All the Answers; A longread about the psychological
There exists a photograph from 1958 that every serious student of African music should know: a young Fela Anikulapo Kuti, just off the boat in Liverpool, trumpet case
Somewhere in a former bakery in Düsseldorf, in the summer of 1994, something remarkable happened. Four young art students, Thomas Klein, Andreas Reihse, Stefan Schneider, and Detlef Weinrich,
Anthony Jackson, the visionary who reinvented modern bass playing, passed away on October 19, 2025. The confirmation came from guitarist Al Di Meola, who wrote on social media:
Few acts in electronic music have built up as much credibility as The Orb. When Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty began playing ambient sets in the chill-out room
After ten years of silence, Cheikh Lô returns with an album that grabs you by the throat from the very first note and never lets go. “Maame”, pronounced
After the claustrophobic, lyrically overstuffed “The Tortured Poets Department,” Taylor Swift’s twelfth studio album feels like a window flung wide open. With just twelve tracks and a runtime
After decades of John Oates enduring the perpetual underestimation as ‘the other half’ of Hall & Oates, his self-titled seventh solo album arrives as an artistic statement of
After fifteen years of silence, one of the most idiosyncratic bands of the nineties returns this week with “A Matter of Time”, and it feels as though we
