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“Ashes fall in August / In October, the blood shines,” Eiko Ishibashi sings in Japanese near the end of “October,” the opening track from Antigone. “Covered with ashes, long winter / Spring is yet to come,” she begins on the following track, “Coma.” Her new album is named for the tragic Sophocles heroine, sentenced to be buried alive after attempting to give her brother a proper burial against the orders of the king; across its songs, one can find grim observations like these, sung serenely over layers of lush instrumentation.

From March 27–30, amid the University of Tennessee men’s and women’s basketball teams’ dominant runs in the 2025 NCAA tournament, downtown Knoxville will be overrun with experimental music, forcing fans in Tennessee Orange apparel to wade through a sea of vintage band tees. Every year at Big Ears, genre-blurring giants perform across a dozen-odd venues.

By the time Lucy Liyou was ready to make her new album, Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name, she’d spent more than half a decade reckoning with the rejection that inspired it. Seven years ago, Liyou was writing songs from the perspective a closeted college student, terrified to tell her parents she was trans. When she finally came out to them, their love for her exposed itself as conditional.

Brian Eno has surprise-released a new album, ‘Aurum’ – check it out below.Last night (March 20), Eno surprise dropped ‘Aurum’ on Apple Music, marking his latest solo release since 2022’s ‘FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE’. The album is exclusive to Apple Music due to its use of the service’s spatial-audio technology, meaning the record won’t be available on Spotify or other streaming platforms.‘Aurum’ consists of 11 tracks and spans one hour and 19 minutes. It marks his 30th solo album – you can check it out below.Besides releasing ‘Aurum’ exclusively on Apple Music, Brian Eno has also had a chat with Zane Lowe for Apple Music.

Thom Yorke have announced their debut album ‘Tall Tales’, and have shared their latest single ‘This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice’.The track features a pulsing beat along with a swirl of synthesisers and the Radiohead frontman’s soft voice singing: “I’m not your problem to be corrected / I can’t function with your mind injected,” over the eclectic backing track.‘This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice’ also comes with a vivid music video directed by visual artist Jonathan Zawada, who is known for his multi-faceted approach that incorporates both analogue and digital techniques. He had previously worked on Pritchard and Yorke’s last release ‘Back In The Game‘.The track marked latest collaborative work from Yorke and electronic producer Pritchard, after ‘Beautiful People’ in 2016.Both ‘This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice’ and ‘Back In The Game’ will be featured in Pritchard and Yorke’s debut collaborative album ‘Tall Tales’ which is set for release on May 9 via Warped.The album will mark Yorke’s first release on the label. ‘Tall Tales’ has been described as a “multi-layered, richly textured record that channels both multiple narratives and multiple genres” in a press release and promises to showcase “Pritchard’s mastery of archaic machines unearthed in synthesizer archives, guiding the music down unexpected and experimental paths,” across the 12 songs that make it up.1. ‘A Fake in a Faker’s World’2. ‘Ice Shelf’3. ‘Bugging Out Again’4. ‘Back in the Game’5. ‘White Cliffs’6. ‘The Spirit’7. ‘Gangsters’8. ‘This Conversation is Missing Your Voice’9. ‘Tall Tales’10. ‘Happy Days’11. ‘The Men Who Dance In Stags’ Heads’12. ‘Wandering Genie’The album will be available digitally as well as on a standard black vinyl 2LP

Julian Casablancas + The Voidz have shared their futuristic new single ‘Blue Demon’ from their forthcoming EP.The track features The Voidz’s signature synth-heavy experimental beats along with Casablancas’ auto-tuned heavy vocals singing: “And In The Name Of Our Lord & Savior We Fight Each Other / Like Two Brothers / Father Forgive Me Intifada / Too Many Babies / Dead Like Their Mothers,” describing a conflict.‘Blue Demon’ was teased on the band’s official Instagram account with a couple of posts created by AI. The first clip sees a news reporter reading a letter from Tron Cole – the band’s “former social media manager” – who threatened to leak the band’s new music.According to a press release, the track is the first taster from The Voidz’s forthcoming EP which is set for release sometime later this spring.

Swans have announced their 17th studio album ‘Birthing’ – you can listen to new single ‘I Am A Tower’ below.The New York City experimental rock band are due to release the follow-up to 2023’s ‘The Beggar’ on May 30 via Mute/Young God. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.In a statement, frontman Michael Gira shared some details about how the forthcoming LP came to be, and told fans that the project would mark the end of Swans’ current incarnation.“The material contained in this album was largely developed over the course of a yearlong Swans tour, during 2023-2024 (‘The Healers’, ‘I Am a Tower’, ‘Birthing’, ‘Guardian Spirit’, ‘Rope’, and ‘Away’), then recorded and further orchestrated and rearranged in the studio,” he explained.

Everything Is Recorded have shared a new single featuring Florence Welch and Sampha – listen to ‘Never Felt Better’ below.The blissful track will appear on the third studio album from Everything Is Recorded – the collaborative music project of Richard Russell. Titled ‘Temporary’, the record is due for release this Friday (February 28) via XL (pre-order/pre-save here).‘Never Felt Better’ is described as a “transcendent, hymnal piece of music”, and is accompanied by an official music video by Kristian Mercado and Mela Murder.

‘Hard Times Furious Dancing’, which is due for release on March 28 via The Leaf Label (pre-save/pre-order here).According to the band’s Ankle Austin, the relentless electro tune finds Snapped Ankles “dancing at the misery of the situation” people in the arts are facing due to the cost of living crisis.“Tune down the gas!” the group repeatedly warn the listener at one point in the furious single, before asking: “How are we gonna pay the rent?”Per a press release, Snapped Ankles are “aiming their ire at the architects of Brexit, which has compounded issues, and made life as a touring band almost impossible to sustain“.The London band have taken things a step further by announcing the launch of a GoFundTrees campaign – set to go live at 10am GMT tomorrow (February 21). You can sign up here.The initiative allows fans and the general public to understand the true cost of touring in 2025, as well as give opportunities for them to donate funds to Snapped Ankles ahead of their upcoming tour.

Death Grips appear to have confirmed that they have split up for good.The trio – made up of producers Zach Hill and Andy Morin and vocalist MC Ride – have been largely dormant since the release of their 2019 EP ‘Gmail And The Restraining Orders’, and now it seems we have confirmation of their demise.A direct message involving Morin has been leaked online, in which he states, “yeah it’s over”. Referring to MC Ride by his real name Stefan Burnett, he added: “Stefan doesn’t want to do any more.

At several points during Juana Molina’s Mexico City show at Foro Indie Rocks! on January 23, the 63-year-old experimental pop/rock star stepped away from her keyboard, guitar, and microphone to do a little dance. Her routine, somewhere between car-wash inflatable and Triller tribute to a mid-’10s Chicago bop track, was one of the only parts of her set that wasn’t technically masterful.

After emerging over a decade ago, FKA twigs has become one of the music industry’s foremost iconoclasts, blurring the lines between singer, dancer, producer, visual artist, collaborator, actor, spokesperson, and activist. But it’s her music that’s always been at the cutting edge of what the future holds.

here).It takes its name from Alice Walker’s poetry book Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, with Walker quoted in a press release as writing: “We can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one… hard times require furious dancing.

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Richard Russell has announced ‘Temporary’, the new album from his collaborative music project Everything Is Recorded.It marks the third album from Everything Is Recorded, and will be released on February 28 next year via XL Recordings. Pre-order here.‘Temporary’ was created over the span of four years and features a host of collaborators, including Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Alabaster Deplume, Jah Wobble, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, Roses Gabor, Jack Peňate, Samantha Morton, Clari Freeman-Taylor, Nourished By Time and more.Alongside the album announcement, Everything Is Recorded has shared a new single ‘Losing You’, featuring Sampha, Laura Groves and British-Bahraini composer and trumpeter Yazz Ahmed. The soul-imbued track comes with an Ed Morris-directed music video that sees the musicians perform in the back of a black cab while driving through London at night.

Brian Eno will be teaching a songwriting course early next year – find out more below.Last night (November 13), the School Of Song announced its January 2025 program, which will see the legendary multi-hyphenate conduct a songwriting course for its applicants. The course, titled Songwriting With Brian Eno, will take place over the course of a month.The School of Song wrote on social media to announce the course: “School of Song is overjoyed to announce that Brian Eno will be leading our Songwriting Workshop in January 2025.

Shortly after finishing work on Big Time Things, his band Office Culture’s third studio album, Winston Cook-Wilson realized he’d pushed his process to its limit. Written alone and rehearsed from a safe distance in a drafty Red Hook warehouse in the depths of a lockdown midwinter, Big Time Things was a pitch-black comedy, weary and uneasy, painfully personal in places.

The Gates began to take root in the frost-bitten New York City ground in mid-February, 2004. Over the next year, 600 workers installed of 7,503 bright orange steel structures, with saffron-colored fabric panels rolled up and affixed to the crossbars, across 23 miles of Central Park walkways. On February 13, 2005, workers unfurled the 1,000,000 square feet of cloth, one piece at a time.

In 1970, master yogi Swami Rama reportedly stopped his heart for 17 seconds during a demonstration at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. He was participating in a study on voluntary control over the autonomic nervous system, demonstrating his ability to fluctuate his muscle temperature, form cysts beneath his skin, and rapidly cycle through different brainwave frequencies using yoga nidrā, a form of meditation where the mind is conscious, but the physical body enters a state of restful “psychic sleep." According to a summary of lead researchers Dr.

Mabe Fratti’s fourth album begins with conviction. Over slow, determined drums, she fingers her cello like a furious bassist, its C string rattling with the aftershock of her powerful plucks.

We open on a long, steady tracking shot through the woods, the camera peering upward through a thin tree canopy into a bright winter sky. Gently swung cymbal triplets trickle up from the ground, followed by a pristine electric guitar from above, and symphonic strings that seep in through the sides and slowly saturate the mix.