Curious Music Flows
Streaming has revolutionized the music business, including how songwriters get paid. Now the 20 biggest streaming platforms have been ordered to pay $424 million in unmatched royalties to artists.
Genius: Aretha, a new miniseries on Aretha Franklin, debuts Sunday on National Geographic. It’s the first in the channel’s Genius anthology series to feature a woman and a non-white person.
Composer Angélica Negrón collaborates with ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ winner Sasha Velour on a 10-minute film featuring original music, in a project for Opera Philadelphia. (Image credit: Matthew Placek/Courtesy of the … Read More
Yesterday was the late Nat King Cole’s birth date. An impossibly talented pianist and vocalist who not only re-invented romantic pop singing in the album era but also helped pave … Read More
The Blues Foundation (the Foundation) has rescinded Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s 2021 Blues Music Awards (BMA) nomination for Best Blues/Rock Artist. The BMAs will be presented virtually on June 6, 2021. … Read More
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto group, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response … Read More
New Orleans funk powerhouse Dumpstaphunk has just unleashed a rendition of Buddy Miles’s 1973 acid-fueled blues anthem “United Nations Stomp,” the third single from Where Do We Go From Here, … Read More
The new edition of ‘Space Is Only Noise’ will be pressed across two clear vinyl records
The city will begin staging pilot events later this week
The Oakland institution counts Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich and Holly Herndon among its alumni
Gazelle Twin collaborates with electronic drone choir NYX to dig up the bones of England’s restless dead
The credits on Peter Parcek’s third solo release, Mississippi Suitcase, cover a century of influences from Delta blues master Sleepy John Estes to The British Invasion’s Peter Green, from an … Read More
It’s been four decades since singer/songwriter/guitarist James “Jimmy Soul” Holvay has been in the music limelight. Now he makes his return with a vital five-song slab of authentic Chicago-style soul … Read More
Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL, is far from the first film composer to be fired at the eleventh hour. But he might be the first to get his job back. … Read More
Jeff Colella – Love Music and it will love you back: Essays on Music (Mouthpiece Music. 118pp. e-book review by John Arnett) How to distil the essence of music and … Read More
Baroque cellist Carina Drury and pianist Antoni O’Breskey are featured in this week’s episode of The Thistle & Shamrock. (Image credit: Courtesy of the artist)
For her latest release on Planet Mu, Meemo Comma weaves together science fiction and Jewish mysticism with luminous results, finds Hannah Pezzack
In Nigeria, Burna Boy is known as much for his social crusading as he is for his Afro-fusion style music. (Image credit: Rich Fury/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Sundays I usually do a roundup of music I’ve been listening to a lot but haven’t gotten around to writing about. It’s often the case that the music I’ve listened … Read More
Freddie Redd was a hard-bop pianist whose percussive, funk-flavored style had a great deal in common with pianist Horace Silver. But for some reason, Redd recorded far too few albums … Read More
