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How To Find New Music In The Age Of The Algorithm
Some tastemakers say today’s music scene is a soulless algorithmic wasteland — others say it’s more vibrant than ever. However you find it, don’t just rely on your Spotify or Apple Music algorithm to introduce you to new artists. – Washington Post Source link
Fontaines DC review – Dublin rockers strike out into the stratosphere | Fontaines DC
First, disorientation; then, redefinition. Lime green and white strobe lights stutter across five busy silhouettes, slicing their movements into nanosecond jump cuts. Then a deep blast of synth bass drives home the point that Fontaines DC – a band once so defined by their home city that “Dublin City” is engraved into their name – […]
A violinist walks into a bank: 50 bold and extravagant years of the Australian Chamber Orchestra | Australian Chamber Orchestra
More than a quarter of a century has passed since the day a young violinist with the reputation of wunderkind (or enfant terrible) strode into the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s executive offices in Martin Place and gave an impromptu display of his virtuosity with the opening bars of Paganini on a borrowed violin. “Will you […]
Jason Schwartzman: ‘I was the kid driving around all the record stores buying all the Oasis singles’ | Movies
Does Wes Anderson still make you audition? TopTrampThere have been times when he’s said: “Maybe you should try reading this part,” or: “Let me hear how it sounds if you read it,” and then said: “I think the character should be older.” I don’t think he’s necessarily auditioning you. He’s auditioning how the part fits. […]
Students Call Out Louisville School Bus Cuts In Rap Song ‘Where My Bus At’ Amid National Driver Shortage
“I wish that it was back like it was before / I miss it when the bus came straight to my door,” they rap, according to the website We Are Teachers. Their rap continues, “I’m a good kid/ I stay in class, too/ Teachers want to me to succeed, but I can’t get to school/ […]
Share your reaction to the Oasis reunion | Oasis
Fifteen years since their split, Oasis have announced they will reunite for a 14-date tour of the UK and Ireland in 2025. The concerts will take place in July and August, at stadiums in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin. Tickets go on sale at 9am on 31 August, with prices to be revealed on […]
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‘You should be partying when you write party music’: pop hedonists Confidence Man on their super-sweaty new album | Pop and rock
It’s 9am in San Francisco and Confidence Man are having some creative differences. “Sugar wants to do a pantomime horse but there’s no way to do that in a hot way,” says frontwoman Janet Planet, talking through her bandmate’s plans to add more chaos to their already furiously fun live shows. She speaks a-mile-a-minute, hair […]
What Republican, Democratic Pop Music Choices At Conventions Says About Them
These days, you get this sort of unabashedly instructional approach to pop music only from Republicans, whose musical choices at July’s Republican National Convention felt, across the board, unburdened by any metaphorical obligations. – Washington Post Source link
Pink, Mindy Kaling but no Beyoncé: the celebrities who ruled the DNC | Culture
The Democratic national convention in Chicago kicked off on Monday with a Kamala Harris campaign ad soundtracked by Beyoncé. It’s not a new Beyoncé track just months after the release of Cowboy Carter, nor a tune from that country-inspired record, but Freedom, a driving song from her 2016 album, Lemonade, that’s become an officially licensed […]
Vinyl Records at 1000x Magnification
Ever wonder what a vinyl record looks like under an electron microscope? Okay, probably not. Luckily, there’s people who do, including Chris Supranowitz, who created a number of electron microscope images for a course at the University of Rochester. Here’s a photograph of the record grooves captured by Supranowitz at 500x magnification. Those dark chunks you see […]
‘We’re not trying to rival the Prodigy’: how podcasters took over music festivals | Podcasts
It’s a tough time to be an artist who plays arenas. Earlier this year, the Black Keys made headlines when they canned an entire American arena tour due to catastrophically low ticket sales; same goes for Jennifer Lopez, who rebranded a flailing album tour as a greatest hits show before scrapping the thing altogether. If […]
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra musicians call for management to step down
An “overwhelming majority” of the musicians of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) have expressed no confidence in the orchestra’s senior management in the wake of the MSO’s decision to cancel a performance by pianist Jayson Gilham. In a letter communicating the result of a meeting held on the evening of 15 August – the evening […]
Green Man festival review: Sherelle sets the tone, Big Thief are a big hit and Sampha closes in style | Green Man
Nothing in British festivals can match the main stage backdrop at Green Man: the kind of mountain ridge that Lord of the Rings characters gaze at in worry. The tradeoff is often Welsh rain, but this year, with the sun out – and a bill stacked with smart, warm, confident artists – it has a […]
AJR is turning concertgoers into climate activists : NPR
AJR fans at Denver’s Ball Arena perform the wave on June 20, 2024. Chloe Veltman/NPR hide caption toggle caption Chloe Veltman/NPR At Ball Arena in Denver, thousands of fans of the multi-platinum-selling indie pop group AJR do the wave. The vast, coordinated ripple as the concertgoers throw their arms up instantly unites the room. It’s […]
Ross Lorraine: More from the Heart review – refreshing summer jazz songs | Jazz
Although he started writing songs as a teenager, Ross Lorraine has spent most of his life doing other things. A classically trained composer, he became a music therapist before working alongside Harrison Birtwistle, exploring improvisational idioms, writing music for theatre, playing jazz piano and scoring modern tangos. More recently he remembered he’s been a songwriter […]
An eye towards heaven: Manfred Honeck on Bruckner
Few conductors tackling the music of Anton Bruckner have benefited from an induction that involved a decade playing in the Vienna Philharmonic under such giants as Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Carlo Maria Giulini and Zubin Mehta, learning the music from the inside. Manfred Honeck played viola in the orchestra [his younger brother, Rainer, is […]
I wanna be top-rated: Ramones’ 20 greatest songs – ranked! | The Ramones
20. Something to Believe In (1986) Perhaps the last Ramones song to sound heartfelt came on 1986’s Animal Boy. Joey Ramone’s voice was an acquired taste, but for those who loved it, he had a unique ability to communicate vulnerability. No hiding behind cartoon lyrics here – this was raw. 19. Oh, Oh, I Love […]
A ‘ball of fire:’ Chattanooga Symphony and Opera names new music director after two-year search
After a two-year search, the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera has appointed Ilya Ram as its music director, ushering in a new era for the organization as it enters its 2024-25 season. Following the departure of Kayoko Dan, who served as the symphony’s music director for more than a decade, at the end of the 2023-24 […]
No consolation prizes! Phoenix backstage at the Paris Olympics closing ceremony – in pictures | Music
We went behind the scenes with the French indie-rock legends – and friends including Air and Vampire Weekend – as they prepared to perform at the Olympics closing ceremony All photographs: Roger Do Minh Main image: Phoenix on stage before the closing ceremony. Photograph: Roger Do Minh Tue 13 Aug 2024 09.17 EDT Source link
Swifties sing in protest after concert cancelations in Vienna : NPR
Fans of Taylor Swift have been taking to the streets of Vienna to sing in protest at the cancelation of her concerts this week owing to security threats MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Taylor Swift fans are channeling their disappointment at the cancellation of the star’s three concerts in Vienna this week into song. (SOUNDBITE OF […]
Rosie Lowe: Lover, Other review – freewheeling styles that all add up | Pop and rock
Over the past decade, singer Rosie Lowe has become one of the most versatile artists in British soul. Possessing a soaring falsetto and raw huskiness, she debuted with the nocturnal atmospherics of 2013’s EP Right Thing before the major-label albums Control (2016) and Yu (2019) saw her touch on synth-pop and funk. Since going independent […]
Subdued, sleepy and despised by snobs: how minimalist piano eclipsed classical music | Classical music
Pitch darkness. Then a single spotlight on a piano in the middle of the stage. A figure walks on – head down, almost apologetic – and sits. The auditorium is silent. There is a gentle cascade of notes, fingers rippling the length of the keyboard again and again in the harmonic equivalent of rotating a […]
Korn review – a mosh-pit erupting set drenched in dark energy | Metal
It’s not every day you see huge mosh pits erupting metres away from a family pedal boat attraction, but that’s the charm of Scarborough’s Open Air theatre. “Lemme hear you!”, Korn frontman Jonathan Davis shouts, as the Californians bring out the big guns early with Here to Stay – the Grammy-winning song’s hulking, downtuned riffs […]
Seattle Opera’s New General Director: Opera Theatre Of St. Louis’s James Robinson
“Robinson, who has been artistic director at the opera company in Missouri since 2008, will join Seattle Opera on Sept. 4. … He succeeds Christina Scheppelmann, who (is) leaving after the end of the 2023-24 season to become general and artistic director of Brussels’s La Monnaie/De Munt.” – The Seattle Times Source link
Liza Minnelli announces memoir because documentaries ‘didn’t get it right’ | Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli is to release a memoir after she claimed previous screen depictions of her life “didn’t get it right”. The 78-year-old US actor and singer will release the book in spring 2026, which will take readers through her career, struggles with substance abuse and love life. Minnelli is one of just 25 performers to […]
The Five Composers Who Defined The Sound Of Horror Movie Music
“The history of horror scores is a long, winding path (that leads to an old abandoned shed stocked with rusty hatchets), with legends of the form and shadowy figures that lurk around the edges of the frame.” Michael Andor Brodeur selects “the most killer composers in film history.” – The Washington Post (MSN) Source link
Has pop music got less melodic? I’ve immersed myself in 70 years of hits – this is what I’ve found | Tom Breihan
Pop music is simple. That’s the idea, anyway. Since the advent of recorded music, the most widely heard music in the world tends to be sharp, catchy and direct. Typically, pop songs are three-minute bursts of heartbreak or excitement or bravado, and they’re ferociously obvious enough to get stuck in your head for hours at […]