The Doug Ford government is pushing ahead with rules under Bill 5 to allow special economic zones, despite global examples of harm to land and people

“I fell in love with the sustain pedal, because for me, it was a way to just keep the sound going and not let it escape.” “It’s about time stopping during that fraction of a second where this emotion ...

The Soviet composer was denounced early on for her “irresponsible attitude to the principles of socialist realism”—a comment she took as a badge of honor.

Tom Service: Few composers have understood as keenly as Nono did that every musical decision also has social and political ramifications, but there is more to his work than the overtly political

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It’s kind of hard to pick a prominent person from the days of the Roman Empire who wasn’t a fan of drunken orgies. For these bacchanalia were an important part of everyday life. Still t…

Among the last beboppers, one of the first singers on Blue Note and a pioneer of voice and bass, Sheila Jordan left an indelible mark on jazz. In this conversation from 2023, she joined Christian McBr...

Jazz Night in America host Christian McBride reflects on how movies about his art form — including La La Land and a new Lee Morgan documentary — tend to paint the working jazz musician.

Filmmaker Bruce Spiegel speaks with Weekend Edition about the eight-year process behind Bill Evans: Time Remembered.

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Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

Born in 1943 and raised in Indiana, Gary Burton taught himself to play the vibraphone, developing a unique approach that set a new standard for four-mallet playing. At the age of 17, he made his recor...

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Gamelan music of Java and Bali. CD Releases. Collections of themed recordings curated by John Noise Manis. https://gamelan.gs

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Eight years ago, I predicted a 3xCD DLX RM of John Foxx’s “Metamatic” but in my naïveté, I had imagined that it was going to manifest by 2013. It’s taken five more years, bu…

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As David Lynch’s first feature film celebrates its 40th anniversary, we look at how its uniquely disturbing approach to sound inspired a generation of musicians

from the album Compositions & Improvisations