Marc Masters outlines the extensive musical history of Mills College in Oakland and links to old and new releases. Read the full article on Bandcamp here.
(read the full article on NY Times here) Is the Music Over at Mills College? A hotbed of experimental sound for nearly a century, this school in Oakland, Calif., is preparing to close its doors. [...]
(from the New York Times) Since its inception in 1964, the Grammy for best album notes has been awarded to just three women. Davis, who won in 1993 for an Aretha Franklin boxed set, was the [...]
Lou Ottens, who put music lovers around the world on a path toward playlists and mixtapes by leading the invention of the first cassette tape, has died at age 94, according to media reports in [...]
(New York Times article by Anthony Tommasini for subscribers to The Times, click here for full article with images) Born into slavery, Thomas Wiggins, who performed as “Blind Tom,” became a [...]
“Darkness Sounding” Takes Music Outside The Southern California festival stretches from back yards to the desert. By Alex Ross February 22, 2021 On a chilly Los Angeles morning in late January, I [...]
From primitive instruments and sacred chants to today’s minimalist electronica and metal, drone music has a long and mystical history. A new book investigates. From the womb – where the rushing [...]
Nathan Bajar for The New York Times The bassist, bandleader and composer’s 10-disc “Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World” invites you to listen, and let the music do its work. [...]
Critics have compared the San Francisco-based Santomieri-Farhadian Duo’s experimental musical compositions to everyone from modernist Anton Webern to rock icon Frank Zappa. This exciting pair — [...]
The Newark native has long been lauded for his brilliant abstractions. Lately he’s writing about something more concrete — and producing his most powerful music yet. By Adam Shatz Jan. 7, 2021 [...]
