New music
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 9 - Queen, On-U Sound and moreFriday, 18 September 2015
The New York Times recently wrote that, “For the music business over all, vinyl is still a niche product, if an increasingly substantial one.” How substantial is slowly becoming clear with dramatic rises in vinyl consumption over the last year. The... Read more... |
Courtney Pine, Ronnie Scott'sFriday, 18 September 2015
Courtney Pine’s Caribbean-flavoured album House of Legends was released three years ago, and it says a lot that he’s still touring it. This riotously melodic collection of ska, soca and calypso, embellished with some scorching solo work, has... Read more... |
Jambinai, Rich MixThursday, 17 September 2015
For three unassuming musicians, sitting cross-legged in a row, Korean folk-noise fusion band Jambinai’s London debut last night was seismic. With an ambitious project to integrate the techniques and idioms of traditional Korean folk with a blend of... Read more... |
CD: Fetty Wap - Fetty WapThursday, 17 September 2015
Fetty Wap is the biggest new name in hip hop. His song “Trap Queen” has been on the UK charts for nearly six months and sold two-and-a-half million downloads in the US alone. The singles released since have established him as an artist capable of... Read more... |
CD: Disclosure - CaracalWednesday, 16 September 2015
Brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence, who are Disclosure, have always made clear they’ve no especial passion for club music. They are, they say, first and foremost musicians and their affinity with dance culture stops there. Despite this they’ve become... Read more... |
Listed: Back To SchoolMonday, 14 September 2015
It's Monday morning, some way between the start of school term and the recall of students to college or university. This moment when the routine of study is reimposed creates some of our strongest memories. As the original voice of teenage rebellion... Read more... |
CD: King Midas Sound & Fennesz - Edition 1Monday, 14 September 2015
Kevin Martin is a busy man. Last year, there was The Bug’s floor-shaking Angels and Devils album and “Boa”/”Cold” collaboration with Dylan Carlson of drone titans Earth. In 2015, after a spectacular headline performance at the Supersonic Festival,... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Pere UbuSunday, 13 September 2015
Pere Ubu: Elitism for the People 1975–1978Pere Ubu’s early records still sound great. The ethos of the Cleveland, Ohio band had nothing to do with prevailing trends when they formed in 1975, and had nothing to with the punk, new wave or what... Read more... |
Kasse Mady Diabate, Queen Elizabeth HallSunday, 13 September 2015
Not many concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall culminate in a string of beautiful African women sashaying down the aisles to the stage to press fivers and tenners upon the still-crooning singer. After taking their hands in turn, as if in benediction... Read more... |
CD: Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TIONSunday, 13 September 2015
Complaining about pop music sounding manufactured is something that, in these postmodern monoculture days, “serious” music fans are all supposed to be past by now. Certainly, since its US release last month, those who are paid to know better have... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 10Saturday, 12 September 2015
Listen to the latest edition of Peter Culshaw’s peripatetic round-up of some recent hot global music releases, including some re-releases of old classics and yet-to-be unleashed tracks including a fair chunk from South America. For your listening... Read more... |
Orchestra Baobab & Blick Bassy, RFHSaturday, 12 September 2015
Africa Utopia at the Southbank Centre is back for its third year with a raft of concerts and events, and for Friday night Senegal's Orchestra Baobab returned to the UK for the first time in three years, one of the great names of the post-... Read more... |
