Known for her hypnotising high pitched voice, Hegarty has become a leading proponent for trans rights. The Oscars might have come under repeated fire for its lack of racial and sexual diversity but there is one nominee who goes against…
Output from 27 March 2015, with a concert at the popular bar ”Caucigh” in Udine (Italy) the debut album (dedicated to the father of Natalia, Andrei Colompar nicknamed Coly), is a self-produced, with the COLY Recordings label. The songs are…
Maybe Jake Bugg is a posturing brat, a product of the pop machine. Maybe the 20-year-old with the reedy wail is rock's savior. Right now, all he wants to talk about is time signatures. Jake Bugg recently dated a supermodel.…
At a White House dinner party in 1987, a politician's wife made the mistake of asking Miles Davis why jazz was essentially dead in America. "Jazz is ignored here because the white man likes to win everything," Davis answered in…
"A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. His name is Joshua Bell He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since…
When you watch German musician Anna-Maria Hefele demonstrate a few polyphonic overtone singing techniques, you will get chills. "Overtone singing is a voice technique where one person sings two notes at the same time," explains Hefele in the video above.…
Matrick comes back in GrayGoo Records with an amazing Progressive/House track for GrayGoo Club Blower entitled “5election”Yes! Exactly like our magazine name. And we are proud of it...of course. Even if have nothing to do with us, we must admit…
French musician of Turkish parentage, Ghédalia Tazartès is an uncompromising artist who defies categorization. His public appearances remain exceptional events as he rarely performs in concerts or releases albums. Ghédalia Tazartès is a nomad. He wanders through music from chant…
Blur singer Damon Albarn has had 20 years of practice perfecting a certain kind of song. It’s a sad song but comfortable in its sadness, the kind of song that might make might you stop in a crowded bar and…
Popularly known as 'the bearded lady', Conchita won the Eurovision Song Contest with the James Bond-like theme Rise Like A Phoenix before a global TV audience estimated to be around 180 million people in 45 countries. Hundreds of fans and…
Sotheby’s will be auctioning off the Macdonald viola, created in 1719 by the legendary Italian violin-maker Antonio Stradivari. They’re asking for a minimum bid of $45 million, which would make this viola the most expensive instrument ever sold. This price…
Even though listening to sad songs should leave us feeling terrible, we have a tendency to actually kind of like them. Case in point: A study found that minor-key music sounded sadder than major-key music to people, but that people…
Shot in Japan, this video directed by Anthony Mandler illustrates the last track ‘Belong To The World’ by The Weeknd. The nearly eight-minute-long record take fans into The Weeknd‘s mind, as he deals with the woman he desires. Visually successful,…
Much ink has been spilled over the death of regionalism in rap: New York's A$AP Mob fusing Harlem rap with Memphis and Houston aesthetics, Chief Keef and Chicago's drill kids building on the blueprint crafted by Waka Flocka and Lex…
As a child growing up in Kuwait in the 1990s, Fatima Al Qadiri had the kind of utopian access to global entertainment that still seems out of reach in the West, even in today’s golden age of boundless media. Thanks…
Hungarian musician Boggie sits still and sings for her latest music video. So what makes it interesting? As she performs, her video editor retouches her skin, hair, facial features, and lighting during the song so that by the end everything…
In 1951 Paul Mawhinney started his record collection by buying Frankie Laine’s ‘Jezebel.’ Over 60 years later he currently owns the largest record collection in the world, numbering around three million items. Mawhinney’s collection was built up over those decades,…
Darcy Prendergast of the Melbourne-based production company Oh Yeah Wow decided to challenge his team with an ambitious project. In just seven days, they would gather 350 people and shoot thousands of portrait photos of them that they would then…
The world generates about a billion tons of garbage a year. Those who live with it and from it are the poor – like the people of Cateura, Paraguay. And here they are transforming it into beauty. Landfill Harmonic follows…
This Harmonica-Housed USB Drive Contains All of Bob Dylan's Albums. Not that any of us needed proof that the times are a-changin', but grown-up hippies looking to grab this impressive omnipedia of Bob Dylan's music might be dismayed to discover…