The Big Ears Festival took place in Knoxville this past weekend, March 21-24. John Diliberto dove in, attending 24 concerts of bleeding edge music and gentle refrains. Read his review.
The Bad Plus are the innovate jazz trio who came to renown covering rock tunes. With new pianist, Orrin Evans, they’ve dropped the rock to explore their own sonic dimensions.
Blue Cheer was a San Francisco band that put the acid into acid rock in the 1960s and drafted the blueprint for Heavy Metal. Now, drummer Paul Whaley, has left the planet.
There are Twelve Days of Christmas and 12 Months of Echoes CD of the Month Picks. We count the months of 2018 with our CD picks from January to December.
Gothic artist Myrkur, the guise of Danish composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Amalie Bruun has a new video for “Juniper” about death, hearts and desiccated animals.
The Chemical Brothers create a robot rave for their new video, “Free Yourself.” Their infectious song is married to I Robot style motion capture animation for a riotous effect.
Big Ears Festival 2019 brings another slate of diverse and adventurous music to their 2019 event. Read about the final lineup which includes Nils Frahm, Harold Budd and Spiritualized.
Beacon is the R&B-inflected dreampop project who create electronically driven mood pieces. They’ve just released their album, Gravity Pairs and an ominous video for the song “On Ice”.
Electronic musician Jon Hopkins has released a new video for his track, “Singularity” with a riveting apocalyptic dance and fight video that hovers between love, hate and samurai air ballets.
Moritz Simon Geist creates robot musicians. Kludging together real and imagined instruments, they are played by robotic devices triggered by Geist to create EDM Robots.
