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NPR Reviews New Radiohead Album
NPR Music‘s staff really doesn’t agree about the band’s recently released ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool. Not at all.Filed under: Links, Music, Popular Music, Reviews Tagged: 21st Century, A Moon...
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Paul Thomas Anderson directs new Radiohead video
“The film places Thom Yorke at its centre, and we watch as he prowls restlessly through a series of rooms, which change with each new door opened. If these are the corridors of Yorke’s mind, it is...
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The Shining: The Opera
Stephen King’s bestselling horror novel adapted by composer Paul Moravec “‘Stephen King’s original novel is all about love, death and power,’ says Pulitzer-winning composer Paul Moravec. ‘And those are...
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Cornel West on Jazz, Philosophy & Radical Politics
A television interview with the African-American scholar, first broadcast in 2000 Filed under: Biography, Critical Theory, History, Interviews, Jazz, Literature, Marxism, Music, Philosophy, Politics,...
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The Brilliance of Lindsay Kemp
The artist takes up a new residency in London “It’s hard to believe that Kemp, known for his extravagantly dramatic performances combining mime, kabuki and cabaret, could experience stage fright. Yet...
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Historians and Hamilton
Ken Owen reviews the Broadway success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton as a reflection of “Founders Chic” and the cult of personality (Source)Filed under: History, Links, Music, Politics, Popular...
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Method Scoring: An Interview with Clint Mansell
“Musician and composer Clint Mansell has spent the past two decades creating some of the most unique and indelible film scores in modern memory.” More at The Criterion Current.Filed under: Biography,...
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Hear the Music of Twin Peaks Played by Xiu Xiu
The full album is available to stream online, free of charge (via Open Culture).Filed under: Movies, Music, Popular Music, Television Tagged: 21st Century, David Lynch, Soundtrack, Twin Peaks
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Jazz Biopics of Chet Baker & Miles Davis
Michael Wood (The London Review of Books) reviews Born to Be Blue and Miles Ahead The places were Philadelphia and New York, the names were John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans and a few others,...
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Arvo Pärt – Even if I lose everything
A DVD of Dorian Supin’s 2015 documentary Arvo Pärt – Even if I lose everything is now available. (Source)Filed under: Biography, Classical Music, Documentaries, Events, Links, Music, Press Release,...
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String Theory: David Foster Wallace
Ben Leubner reviews a new collection for 3:AM Magazine The five essays that comprise String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis have all appeared in other books by Wallace: two in A Supposedly Fun...
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Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures: 50th Anniversary
“Unit Structures is both as mathematically complex as its title suggests and as rich in colour and sound as the ensemble proposes, with the orchestrally varied sounds of the two bassists — Grimes a...
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Sarah Waters’ Cultural Highlights
The novelist on unusual cinema experiences, LGBTQ history and the genius of Happy Valley (Source: The Guardian).Filed under: Art, Biography, Feminism, History, Literature, Movies, Music, Television,...
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Manfred Eicher on Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa
ECM founder discusses the history of Pärt’s landmark recording Filed under: Biography, Classical Music, Documentaries, Interviews, Music, Video Tagged: 20th Century, Arvo Pärt, ECM Records, Manfred...
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David Bowie Was Set to Appear in Twin Peaks Reboot
“Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me has been scrubbed from the memories of many Twin Peaks fans, but it’s best not to forget that David Bowie was in the film, as Agent Phillip Jeffries. He appears as a...
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Celebrating Miles Davis’ 90th Birthday
“Miles Davis would have celebrated his 90th birthday today. And though he’s been gone for 25 years (hard to believe), he remains arguably the most influential figure in jazz. How influential? Glad you...
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New Arvo Pärt composition premiered in Los Angeles
“The new composition is based on the 1988 a capella piece Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen that the composer decided to rearrange for string orchestra. According to the Universal Edition music publisher,...
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Bob Dylan: A Year and a Day
Charlotte Jansen (AnOther) on a new book of photographs by Daniel Kramer In 1964, American photographer Daniel Kramer met a little-known 23-year-old singer and songwriter from Minnesota. His name was...
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60th Anniversary: ‘Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia
Kenny Dorham's 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia' was recorded 60 years ago today. #jazz #music #otd pic.twitter.com/rEiYtx85Vl — Rhys Tranter (@RhysTranter) May 31, 2016 Filed under: Events,...
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Samuel Beckett’s Digital Library
An exclusive glimpse inside a new online archive, cataloguing the Nobel laureate’s personal reading habits and artistic influences Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett’s Library The Beckett...
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