This system encodes music from all 20 types of amino acids found in proteins as individual notes on a 20-tone scale, rendering them audible.
MySpace, once the key promoter of independent music and upcoming artists has lost 50 million songs from 12 million artists accumulated during a 12 year period between 2002 and 2015.
The Jonas Brothers are back...and they've had sex.
January had a ton of great new albums and music videos from the likes of Future, James Blake, Janelle Monáe, and Teyana Taylor; and it also featured some interesting trailers for Velvet Buzzsaw, Apollo 11, and High Life. We've highlighted some of the best drops over the month and now we're ready to crown the best album, movie trailer, and music video.
So what can you expect from a country/island that is seemingly a remote place? As far as making contributions to the world’s music scene overall? Well, no matter what the expectations were or are, actually quite a lot.
The first track is the first step, and it’s a call to consider the albums as a whole, starting with a built-in artist’s statement, a love letter from The 1975 to us.
Kingdom Hearts is set for a big comeback, but the classic game's music might make as much of a stir as the release itself.
If anybody in modern music is taken as a stereotype of the genius/weirdness combination it is late Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett, a founder and brief mailman of Pink Floyd, solo artist, painter, and recluse - often most of these things at the same time.
Claudine Longet, a French singer/actress who got somewhat famous, but also infamous, in the US has been almost all but forgotten by the general public. But there’s a lot to her story, from her marriage to the '60s superstar Andy Williams, friendship with Bobby Kennedy, a prominent murder trial, and more.
Albert Ayler, never getting the wider recognition he truly deserved, unleashed a free-form musical exploration that went beyond the boundaries of jazz or any other music that included everything he experienced musically – from church spirituals, New Orleans and Army brass music, to world folk forms, to free improvisation – any and all of these themes, often all at the same time.
We're finally back and discussing all the major happenings in music like Lil Wayne's long, long-awaited Carter V album, T.I.'s best album since Paper Trail, more unnecessary collabs from the likes of Lil Baby and Gunna, Vic Mensa killing his own career, and Kanye going off the rails (again). Oh and we also throw in some talk about the McGregor vs. Khabib sh*t show and go on a far too long aside about Dragon Ball Super (it happens more than we'd care to admit).
The Go-Betweens produced some of the most mutant, evocative intellectual pop, that never succeeded at the time it was made, but lingers on til this day.
Bubblegum pop and novelty music both hold special appeal in their approaches to music. What makes the two ripe for resurgence is the very same thing that has kept them alive so far.
Nerdcore stands as the net result of hip-hop + geek culture, bringing new sounds and perspectives to the table that the music industry may be on the verge of accepting into its mainstream spotlight.
Maybe the ‘old fashioned’ rock critics have further retreated into the online fringes of their personal websites and academic research, even further than they did last year. But luckily, they are still writing books.
We're back discussing Tekashi 6ix9ine's worsening legal situation, upcoming documentaries about Don Cornelius and Michael Jackson, 'Tory Lanez vs Everybody', and the latest albums from Future, James Blake, Toro y Moi, Maggie Rogers, and Boogie.
2018 was a historically great year for music and now that the year is all wrapped up we're ready to deliver our definitive list of the Top 25 Albums of the Year.
Any road you take in rock music, the one to fame or the one to oblivion, is paved with sad stories of mishaps and misfortune. Late Gene Clark, co-founder of The Byrds, is probably the epitome of them.
December had a ton of great new albums and music videos from the likes of Benny Blanco, Zayn, Jorja Smith, and Swizz Beatz; and it also featured some interesting trailers for Us, Brightburn, and True Detective Season 3. We've highlighted some of the best drops over the month and now we're ready to crown the best album, movie trailer, and music video.
Sometime during the Twentieth century, a musician, born somewhere in Alabama as Herman Poole Blount, rounded up his outlook of the World, or more precisely at the Universe, life, and music, and found in himself that he is actually Sun Ra.
Mac Miller and XXXTentacion both were particularly expressive and daring in their musical pursuits and both passed at extremely young ages. A lot has been said about them but what did their music have to say about their lives and what can be learned from this unfortunate trend in hip-hop?
Troye Sivan came to The Anthem in D.C. with a stellar performance, with support from Leland and Kim Petras, the crowd was swooning all night long. Check out our full gallery of shots and be sure to catch him on tour.
What happens when lifelong rock fans get old? They spread memes. I can’t imagine anything less rock ’n’ roll than complaining on Facebook about the musical tastes of kids these days.
We've just gotten a press release from What So Not announcing all of the dates through his upcoming tour, so check it out and start marking your calendars now.
