Once again, here are my personal picks for the year’s best in abattoir jazz, diaristic field recordings, audio Rothkos, ambient epics, electroacoustic cinema, marathon improv, and backroom electronica ...

Ever since the early Beatles days, Paul McCartney’s signature instrument has been the Höfner 500/1 violin bass guitar. In ...

Steven Drozd joined the Flaming Lips in 1991. At that point, the long-running Oklahoma City psych-rock band had already been ...

What the saxophone riff was to 2014, the heavy panting sample is to 2025: a little microtrend meant to imply, well, sex on ...

It’s that time of year when bands clear out their archives, dispensing demos and covers galore while the music industry waits ...

Since 2013, Billboard has been using YouTube streams as one of the factors that help decide the magazine’s charts. In Wednesday YouTube announced that it would no longer provide data to Billboard ...

Kay Flock has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Back in March, the NYC rapper, whose real name is Kevin Perez, was ...

People rally around a specific band or album, a new scene forms around a shared sensibility, or a particular sound permeates the zeitgeist. It’s more difficult to determine when something ends. After ...

Taylor Swift loves to release different versions of her albums. Her latest album, The Life Of A Showgirl, received multiple ...

Hanukkah began Sunday night, therefore so did one of the world’s greatest holiday traditions, Yo La Tengo’s annual ...

The Music Hall Of Williamsburg is an important Brooklyn music venue that’s been open for decades, and it’s been a staple for any New York music fans this century, but its days are numbered. The ...

The Glasgow post-punk band Life Without Buildings released exactly one album, the 2001 underground classic Any Other City, ...