One Tuesday in Ibiza Now Contains an Entire Electronic Festival
Groove Armada, Anyma, Amelie Lens, Maceo Plex, Dubfire and dozens more turn one ordinary Ibiza Tuesday into an island-wide electronic festival.
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Sixty Bands, One Ship: Metal’s Wildest Festival Returns to Sea
70,000 Tons of Metal is loading 60 bands, four stages and thousands of fans onto a Caribbean cruise for one wonderfully excessive festival.
Can One Pound From a Stadium Ticket Help Save Grassroots Music?
A new Help Musicians fund turns contributions from major concert tickets into grants for early-career performers facing the real cost of touring.
Stevie Wonder Takes Songs in the Key of Life Back to the Stage at 50
Stevie Wonder will perform Songs in the Key of Life in full as his monumental album turns 50—and its message still feels strikingly alive.
Radiohead Return With 21 Shows—and Another Swing at the Ticket Bots
Radiohead are returning for 21 shows across Australia and Japan with fixed prices, controlled resale and a registration system built to frustrate bots and scalpers.
Wade Forster Rides Out The Aftermath Toward the Grand Ole Opry
Wade Forster is carrying songs shaped by real rodeo dust onto one of country music’s most storied stages. The Australian singer-songwriter released The Aftermath on August 14 through Community Music and is set to make his Grand Ole Opry debut on September 30. Forster’s path into music began far from […]
Brennan Wedl Stops Searching and Becomes Her Own North Star
Brennan Wedl’s self-titled ANTI- debut does not arrive with the careful distance of a formal introduction. Released August 21, Brennan Wedl feels immediate, funny, spiritual and unguarded—the sound of an artist sorting through old expectations while refusing to lose her sense of play. Wedl previously co-founded the queercore group Dazey […]
Slow Pulp Let the Feelings Spill Ahead of Melodie
Slow Pulp are letting uncertainty speak for itself. “Spill,” the final single before the band’s third album Melodie, due September 18 via ANTI-, circles the fear and exhilaration that can arrive when a relationship starts to feel real. The song lives in the space Slow Pulp handle especially well: a […]
Wasia Project Push ‘Vogue’ Onto the Dance Floor Before Nocturne
Wasia Project are stepping into a bigger, brighter frame. The Chinese-British sibling duo of Will Gao and Olivia Hardy have handed “Vogue” to revered German DJ and producer Gerd Janson, whose remix pulls the song toward the dance floor without sanding away its emotional edge. The new version arrives just […]
Laura Misch Turns the Barbican Into a Living, Breathing Cave
Laura Misch has never treated music like something that should stay neatly inside a speaker. On Lithic (Live at the Barbican), released September 4, the London saxophonist, producer and composer turns her biggest headline performance to date into an immersive meeting point between sound, water, stone and space. Recorded at […]