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Boy Throb Announce 2027 North American Tour

Now with fourth member Darshan Magdum officially joining the group in the United States, the 20-date outing marks Boy Throb's first tour as a quartet. Boy Throb Announce 2027 North American Tour Paolo Ragusa

Consequence · EN

A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel Auctioning 120-Plus Items of Gear and Memorabilia

The collection, which features 123 items spanning a painting, guitars, amps, and even shirts, goes on sale November 8th. A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel Auctioning 120-Plus Items of Gear and Memorabilia Langdon Hickman

Consequence · EN

Pixies Unearth Four Archival Tracks, Including Steve Albini Version of “Dig for Fire”

The newly available tracks also include “Go Man Go,” a Black Francis and Kim Deal co-write, plus “Brackish Boy” and “Punk Loop.” Pixies Unearth Four Archival Tracks, Including Steve Albini Version of “Dig for Fire” Alex Krinsky

Consequence · EN

Mouthwashing, indie horror game, now on consoles featuring Imogen Heap

Mouthwashing, the underground psychological horror adventure, helped a slew of new fans discover the joys of Imogen Heap. Now Imogen and the game are back on all current consoles. No excuses: it’s Halloween weekend, and what other title offers “Descend into Madness” as one of its feature bullet points? I do mean all consoles. Windows […] The post Mouthwashing, indie horror game, now on consoles featuring Imogen Heap appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

The techno originator, Juan Atkins, has died at 64

It's a loss that's beyond words. Juan Atkins, who coined the term "techno" and is often called "the originator," has died at 64. My deepest condolences to friends, family, and so many people I know who worked with and were inspired by this singular human being. The post The techno originator, Juan Atkins, has died at 64 appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

P S Y C H O ! (a mixtape)

This mix began as a Halloween party mix (complete with “Monster Mash”) and then morphed into something weirder and scarier, I think: a mix of songs (mostly) about being crazy — maybe even psychotically! — in love. (The more you listen to love songs the more you realize, “Man, this person is not well!”) These […]

Austin Kleon · EN

BBCSO/Stasevska review – Caroline Shaw’s cosmic visions meet Barber’s lyrical brilliance

Barbican, London The Golden Record and the vastness of space inspire a fascinating but underdeveloped new work, alongside a richly rewarding performance from Randall Goosby As it hurtles away from Earth – 16bn miles and counting – the Golden Record on board the Voyager spacecraft continues to fascinate us. Caroline Shaw ’s The Listeners – written for San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque in 2019 and here receiving its London premiere from the BBCSO as part of Shaw’s Barbican residency – features one of its tracks: spoken greetings in 55 languages. Heard via record player, these resonate through

Guardian Culture · EN

Steve Ellis, frontman of Everlasting Love hitmakers Love Affair, dies aged 76

Singer hit No 1 with pop-rock band in 1968 and scored three more Top 10 hits with them, before solo career featuring collaborations with Paul Weller Steve Ellis, the singer who found fame as the frontman of 60s pop-rockers Love Affair, has died aged 76. A message on social media announced that Ellis died “peacefully” on 30 October, after “complications from a chronic illness”. With his stirring, heartfelt croon, Ellis gave voice to one of the most enduring hits of the 1960s: Everlasting Love, which topped the UK chart in 1968. Continue reading...

Guardian Culture · EN

Ashanti: ‘I’ve had a bodysuit snap off on stage. That was not my coolest moment’

Before her Australian tour, the Grammy-winner talks about her marriage to Nelly, fans rushing the stage and her secret skill Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Your debut album, Ashanti, turns 25 next year and you’re in the process of re-recording it. How do you feel about that album now? We are re-recording it so I will own my masters. Sonically, it will be a lot clearer. It was 25 years ago so it’ll sound a little more new, obviously, but with the same classic vibe. I’m very excited. What I’ve learned is that I’m just really grateful to have written records that stand the test of ti

Guardian Culture · EN

DON'T LOSE YOUR GOOD THING

As the music industry has undergone a profound paradigm shift in the 21st century, it has left a lot of history behind: small labels that released seminal music, studios where those classics were recorded, sessions so significant that they established one Southern town as “the Birthplace of Country Music.” If a culture commemorates battlefields and other historical sites, why not musical landmarks? The opening chapter of this insightful book by Dahan, a scholar at Middle Tennessee State University, tells a fascinating story of how Richmond, Indiana, became a recording hub for Gennett Records,

Kirkus · EN

Watch David Bowie Take MTV to Task for Failing to Play Music Videos by Black Artists (1983)

The old vaudeville phrase “Will it play in Peoria?” has its roots in the late 19th century, specifically in Horatio Alger’s novel Five Hundred Dollars; Or Jacob Marlowe’s Secret. Like all of the books Alger wrote extolling the virtues of thrift, study, grooming, industry, etc., this one articulates a middle American bootstraps philosophy and rags-to-riches mythology, while […]

Open Culture · EN

Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song

"The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body."

Brain Pickings · EN

Meteor of Joy: The Young People’s Chorus of New York City Sings Bird Divinations

Children know the deepest truths about life, the elemental knowledge we unlearn in the act of living, those inarticulable truths music alone helps us remember. To hear children sing the secret wisdom of the heart is to be in the presence of something truer and more transcendent than any of our poems and postulates can touch — the ultimate affirmation of our aliveness, emanating Richard Powers’s beautiful and bittersweet assertion that “the use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.” To celebrate twenty years of The Marginalian, composer extraordinaire Paola Prestini set six…

Brain Pickings · EN

Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Moving Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” a Lifetime of Sorrow in the Making

A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.

Brain Pickings · EN

How Bad Bunny Turned the World’s Cheapest Chair Into a Pop Icon

A collage of Bad Bunny with the Monobloc chair by Francesco Maria Furno No one paid any attention to the Monobloc until Bad Bunny came along to dignify the most common chair in the world. A piece of white plastic that has filled our everyday spaces since the day it was born, with its bland, anodyne spirit. The Monobloc is the commercial product par excellence for resting our backsides. Cheap, easy to stack, transport, and replace, and pretty sturdy for the price it sells at. After the Puerto Rican artist’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, it’s not only one of the best-selling objects but one of the most

Muzli · EN

The Early Years of Electronic Pop: The Moog Craze, Psychedelic Experiments, and More

There’s a decent chance you’ve heard at least a couple of tracks from Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach. But when was the last time you put on Switched-On Rock, Switched-On Country, Switched-On Santa, or Switched-On Bacharach? More likely than not, you’ve never even heard of those other albums, which have nothing to do with Carlos and […]

Open Culture Tech · EN

Review: Banan-a-Synth Is an Adorable Yellow Synthesizer

Banan-a-Synth is just what it sounds like: a banana-sized, 20-note, capacitive touch keyboard that can mimic different instruments. And it sounds great. The post Review: Banan-a-Synth Is an Adorable Yellow Synthesizer appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .

MAKE Magazine · EN