I admire the fearlessness with which Flying Lotus approaches his creative work. It is indulgent to use instrumentation the way he uses it on his much-anticipated sixth album Flamagra. Expressing thoughts this …

Many people think an artist’s job is to capture what we call beauty and bottle it up for others to consume. But what they don’t realize is the urge to capture the beautiful eventually leads to the question: what is beauty, anyway? …

There are parts of Titanic Rising, the fourth studio album by producer-singer-songwriter Weyes Blood aka Natalie Mering, that could have been recorded in the 1970s. Except for the subtle cues of its modernity: the impeccable …

If life is a cabaret, youth is a shadow play. Light and dark are separated by sharp edges in dramatic high definition, and you discover that it’s effortless to run your hand through both extremes.  …

Music is nature.

Before everyone gets hung up on that statement, and I get an influx of “I’m not naturally gifted at music,” “I can’t make anything musical,” “I’m tone deaf,” “I have no rhythm,” and “Does that make me an alien?”—hear me out, …

Musicians today have so much available to them in instrumental and stylistic options. Thanks to the internet, the Information Age, sophisticated synthesizers and digital production software, the eclectics never had it so good….

Your tongue is pink. What have you been doing? Eating candy?

It’s less likely we invented music because we liked the sound and more likely we invented it to cope with love lost. Musical history is littered like a landfill with the lovesick, the lonely and ailing hearts of us all. As the trope of couples …

I am often bored by remix albums because many of them are difficult listens from start to finish, curated for the utilitarian purpose of supplying DJs with varieties of a song or an album to play out in a club and unconcerned with …