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Byline: Andy Beta Whether director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's 'Drive My Car' brings home the Oscar in one of the four categories it's nominated for on Sunday (Best Picture, Directing, International Feature [...]

Byline: Andy Beta If you asked jazz firebrand Ornette Coleman about his music and philosophy, he probably would have referred you to an obscure music book, 'The Harmolodic Theory.' First [...]

Byline: Andy Beta In 2018, Los Angeles-based saxophonist Sam Gendel convinced one of his favorite restaurants in Laurel Canyon, Pace, to let him play a weekly residency there. He also [...]

Byline: Andy Beta Ben LaMar Gay's musical loves range far and wide. Steeped in the blues of his hometown of Chicago and an integral figure in his local jazz community, [...]

Byline: Andy Beta It's not yet October, but Haley Fohr's creative room inside her Chicago home is already swaddled in orange. A video call reveals the walls bearing dense layers [...]

Byline: Andy Beta As diligent students of the indie-pop form and expert practitioners, few modern bands have remained as durable and beloved as England's SaintEtienne. While most acts from the [...]

Byline: Andy Beta Fans of her early trip-hop-like songs included John Peel and Boy George. A new compilation puts her innovations in a fresh context. Leslie Winer seemed poised for [...]

Fans of her early trip-hop-like songs included John Peel and Boy George. A new compilation puts her innovations in a fresh context. Leslie Winer seemed poised for stardom in 1990. [...]

Byline: Andy Beta If you've felt a drum hit that seemed at once to echo into the cosmos and mash up your innards, found yourself floating in zero-gravity in the [...]

Byline: Andy Beta In the years since Alice Coltrane passed from this world in 2007, a paradigm shift has occurred. For much of her lifetime, she and her music stood [...]

Byline: Andy Beta When you visualize jazz, a certain image springs to mind: The dapper postwar musician in a darkened basement club, cigarette smoke curling around them, all of it [...]

Byline: Andy Beta Millions out of work and businesses shuttered. A crushing sense of poverty and alienation in the populace, leading to openly fascist groups marching in the streets and [...]

Byline: Andy Beta The 33rd Grammy Awards on Feb. 20, 1991, featured Mariah Carey winning Best New Artist, Bob Dylan performing a grungy version 'Masters of War' in the midst [...]

Byline: Andy Beta From his home studio looking out over the ocean in New Brunswick, Canada, in late summer, Beverly Glenn-Copeland shows me the effect of the covid-19 pandemic on [...]

The year was 1992, and a longhaired Eddie Chacon, in suspenders and big hoop earrings, grinned and posed alongside Charles Pettigrew in the video for ''Would I Lie to You?'' [...]

Dance music purists in New York City were dealt three devastating blows on New Year's Day. The venerable nightclubs Cielo and Output were shuttered, and their Funktion-One speakers, considered among [...]

YouTube is known for shining a spotlight on viral stars, but sometimes it can act more like a hip record store clerk, digging in the crates. Five years ago, if [...]

YouTube is known for shining a spotlight on viral stars, but sometimes it can act more like a hip record store clerk, digging in the crates. Five years ago, if [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDCHICAGO -- The experimental producer and D.J. Laurel Halo has spent the past eight years building up a reputation as a slippery artist, moving from fidgety techno to conventional [...]

''I thought I was completely healthy.'' Ryuichi Sakamoto spoke in a whisper at a bistro steps from his West Village home. Silver hair framed his tortoise shell glasses, and the [...]

Byline: Andy Beta Whether it's through hip-hop, R&B, Top 40 radio or Internet memes, Drake is a ubiquitous presence on our cultural landscape. Yet for all of his inescapable hits [...]

Summer in Ibiza has become synonymous with E.D.M. superclubs and celebrity debauchery. But in springtime, the island proves a haven for travelers seeking holistic relaxation, an oasis of flowering almond [...]

Byline: Andy Beta As year-end top-10 lists continue to roll in, the one album you'll find near the top of each is Kendrick Lamar's 'To Pimp a Butterfly.' It's an [...]

Byline: Andy Beta Three months ago, Brooklyn-based DJ Mick Batyske and his wife had their first child, a son they named Myles. Batyske - who goes by the name DJ [...]

Byline: by Andy Beta NEW YORK -- This summer, a pair of independent musicians -- Baltimore's Danny Greenwald and Brooklyn's Noah Wall -- released new albums online. This is not [...]

Byline: Andy Beta Whether it's through hip-hop, R&B, Top 40 radio or Internet memes, Drake is a ubiquitous presence on our cultural landscape. Yet for all of his inescapable hits [...]