Improv and Avant-Garde

Thundercat Finds Healing and Some Laughs on 'It Is What It Is'

PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2020

No matter the level of fame that virtuoso bassist Thundercat (aka Stephen Lee Bruner) attains, you get the sense he never forgets his roots...

Krzysztof Penderecki Dead at 86

PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2020

Polish avant-garde composer/conductor Krzysztof Penderecki passed away earlier today following a battle with a "long and serious illness" a...

How FET.NAT's Olivier Fairfield Is Coping with Isolation: Learning Trumpet, Film Soundtracks and Listening to Vangelis

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2020

Olivier Fairfield has been holding it down for years as the drummer for acts like Timber Timbre, Andy Shauf and Last Ex, but his most notab...

Absolutely Free's Moshe Fisher-Rozenberg Announces Debut Album as Memory Pearl

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2020

Moshe Fisher-Rozenberg is best known as a member of Toronto experimental rock troupe Absolutely Free and for collaborating with Alvvays, Fu...

Nick Storring

My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2020

Nick Storring pours himself into his music. In the literal sense, his compositions are realized by layering his own playing of a plethora o...

Dean Blunt Returns with Two New Releases

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2020

Dean Blunt wrapped up his last decade of music-making sharing new tunes with Hyperdub, directing a video for Panda Bear and more. Now, he's...

Italy's Sonor Music Editions Opens the Vaults for Self-Isolation Livestream Series

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2020

With much of the world on lockdown over COVID-19, we need music more than ever, and for now, that means music at home. Helping us stay sane...

Simon Fisher Turner and Edmund de Waal

A Quiet Corner In Time

PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2020

It is certainly quiet, this impressive collaboration between acclaimed artist and author Edmund de Waal and former punk rocker turned actor...