Simo Cell and Abdullah Miniawy: Dying Is the Internet review | Ammar Kalia’s global album of the month
(Dekmantel UFO)The latest collaboration between the French producer and Egyptian singer pairs soaring musicality with frenetic electronics to examine the age of AI Egyptian singer Abdullah Miniawy has spent the past decade lending his melismatic voice and Arabic classical maqam melodies to a fascinating range of experimental music, and. Alongside French trumpeter Erik Truffaz he […]
Texas Tornados Member, Tex-Mex Music Legend Augie Myers Dies
He was an American music original, a Texas music legend, a beloved member of the Tex-Mex/Tejano music community, and a psychedelic rocker before he was anything else. He was Augie Myers. Over the years, the Sir Douglas Quintet and Doug Sahm’s solo efforts became famous for mixing in more country, Tex-Mex, and other influences into […]
Live Nation and Justice Department reach settlement in antitrust case
The trial, which began a week ago in a New York City courtroom, aimed to break up Live Nation and its subsidiary, Ticketmaster. (Image credit: NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Album Review – Trey Hensley’s “Can’t Outrun The Blues”
Hensley’s music doesn’t just come with that wide open appeal, it deserves that wide open audience to reintroduce this blinding, inspiring musicianship back into the national conversation of what music should be. Bluegrass (#520) on the Country DDS. AI = “clean” It turns out this Trey Hensley guy is pretty good at music. He does […]
Grime rapper and producer Dot Rotten dies aged 37
Musician created numerous volumes of beats that were acclaimed across the grime scene, before crossing over with solo chart success British rapper and producer Dot Rotten, who flourished in the grime scene before crossing over to mainstream success, has died aged 37. The musician, real name Joseph Ellis-Stevenson, reportedly died in the Gambia. His family […]
Echo and the Bunnymen review – Ian McCulloch leaves it to the crowd to sing these timelessly great songs
02 Academy, Leeds The frontman struggled to get through most of the band’s choruses but that left space for Will Sergeant’s glorious psychedelic shapes and a supportive sing along Ian McCulloch once cheekily described the Bunnymen as “the greatest band in the world, the greatest songs in the history of time and the greatest singer”, […]
Singing the news: the story of Italy’s last ‘cantastorie’ – still performing in his 90s
Famous for combining true crime and political scandals into songs – and antagonising Silvio Berlusconi – Franco Trincale keeps the tradition alive in his nursing home When Franco Trincale was a barber boy, he used to sing Sicilian songs in breaks between customers, his boss strumming the guitar. Back then, he could never have imagined […]
Country Joe McDonald, Woodstock star and anti-war singer, dies aged 84
Musician behind Vietnam war protest hit I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag dead from Parkinson’s complications, his wife confirms “Country Joe” McDonald, a hippy rock star of the 1960s whose protest track I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag rebuked the Vietnam war and became a highlight of the Woodstock music festival, died on Sunday. He was 84. McDonald died in Berkeley, California. His […]
Satnam Galsian Reimagines Irish Folk Classic to Spotlight Honour-Based Abuse
Satnam Galsian has released her new single “Dishonour” on March 8th (International Women’s Day), reimagining the Irish folk song “She Moved through the Fair” from the woman’s perspective to highlight honour-based abuse. All proceeds from pre-orders (until April 6th) benefit Karma Nirvana, a Leeds charity ending honour-based violence. The British-Asian singer-songwriter, recently recognised for amplifying […]
Ever behind the sunset
This hand-painted stop motion animation recalls the textures of a family home demolished to make way for a widened road – by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon Source: aeon.co