Improv and Avant-Garde

Alva Noto's Ambient Remix of the Cure's "A Forest" Is Exactly What We Need Right Now

PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2020

The Cure have released more than a few iconic songs over the years, and one of those high water marks remains their 1980 track "A Forest."...

Nine Inch Nails

Ghosts V: Together

PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2020

Having brought counterculture to the mainstream in the '90s, Trent Reznor has spent the past decade becoming one of Hollywood's most prolif...

Igorrr

Spirituality and Distortion

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2020

Igorrr's Spirituality and Distortion is a record I literally can't stop listening to; it is extreme, distorted, noisy and completely imposs...

Nine Inch Nails

Ghosts VI: Locusts

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2020

It makes sense that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, whose foray into the world of film scoring has made room for more ambient reflections, a...

Scientists Reveal How Coronavirus Would Sound If It Was a Song

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2020

Scientists have created a musical representation of the proteins and molecules that make up COVID-19 and formed a new instrumental song tit...

16 Must-Hear Canadian Albums from Winter 2020

PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2020

Each day may feel like it lasts an eternity, but we're finally a quarter of the way through 2020. With the sun shining and the weather warm...

Thundercat

It Is What It Is

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2020

There is perhaps no better album with which to face our current uncertainty than Thundercat's It Is What It Is. Filled with gentle reflecti...

Ellis Marsalis, Jazz Patriarch, Dies at 85

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2020

Ellis Marsalis — a jazz pianist, music educator and the patriarch of the Marsalis family — has died. In a statement, son Branford Marsalis...