Avishai Cohen: A Jazz Bassist for the 21st Century Avishai Cohen is a genre-bending player, composer, and collaborator. Born in Israel in 1970, he has emerged as one of the most important bassists in contemporary jazz...
Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism: Grounded, Dancy and Personal "I'm at a place in my career where I feel really confident, it took me so long to get to this place," Dua Lipa told Zane Lowe in one of her many promotional interviews leading up to her third studio album, Radical Optimism. This confidence and
On Big Feelings and Her Latest Album The Big Feel: A Conversation with Lucky Lo Lucky Lo, the multi-talented artist from the northern part of Sweden, has put her heart on her sleeve on her latest album, building momentum and grandeur like never before while keeping the softness of her melodies. The Big Feel is definitely an album that lives up to its name, exploring
The Mystery When considering the most current discoveries in astronomy one may not think about Hip-Hop. However, over the course of its first fifty years, Hip-Hop artists have rhymed about the movements of the sun, moon, and stars in multitudinous songs and freestyles. Out of that group, Rakim Allah is the greatest
Death Cab For Cutie and Yoko Ono Walk Into a Bar… Admittedly very late to the game, my introduction to Death Cab for Cutie (DCFC) was their 2015 single “The Ghosts of Beverly Drive”. Its driving rhythm, and the breakdown about two-thirds of the way in, was what had me first coming back until I discovered the magic of bandleader Ben
It Began in Africa Recently, I came across the documentary Beware Mr. Baker (2012), by filmmaker Jay Bulgar. It's about the musical career and life of Ginger Baker. Baker first made a name for himself as the drummer for Cream, the British rock group from the 1960s. When I was a kid,
Flowers for Bill Laswell: Collision, Chaos, and Freedom “We may certainly see God in all arts and in all sciences, but in music alone we see God free from all forms and thoughts.” - Inayat Khan Inayat Khan, the Sufi musicologist, believed that underneath all the apparent dissonance among humanity, there was a unity that can be found