Experimental electronic music isn’t exactly a mainstream affair. Its unconventional, ambient tonalities so often alienate listeners of EDM and synth pop alike. This is why Taylor McFerrin’s brand of exploratory, electronic jazz is such an enigma: it …Read more

This new collection of songs by indie pop musician Eric Frisch is essentially campiness on overdrive. Frisch’s main influences are The Beatles and The Beach Boys; he’s managed to cultivate the most mawkish aspects of these influences and crystallize …Read more

“The original blues masterpieces written and recorded by Howlin’ Wolf and Willie Dixon in the fifties really need an update,” said no one ever. But here they are anyway. Tomás Doncker, a veteran of New York’s soul and roots music scene, has put toget …Read more

Behind every shoe-gazing poet in rock there stands a star-gazing conjurer of sounds. This relationship — usually between a singer and guitarist — is commonplace: Robert Plant had Jimmy Page, Anthony Kiedis had John Frusciante, and Morrissey had Joh …Read more

Darkness and light, melancholic and cheerful. These two pairs of words may seem diametrically opposed to one another but they come to mind in equal measure when the sound of Volker Bertelmann a.k.a. Hauschka’s prepared piano reaches your ears. Prepar …Read more

Time to take a trip into a time machine and arrive in the 1960s where freedom, peace and love were the mainstream ideals of a generation and hallucinogenic drug experimentation caused a stir in visual art and music. Enter the Mystic Braves, a throwba …Read more

Two sets. Two groups. One compact venue. Such was the state of affairs at Brooklyn’s IBeam, a glorified rehearsal space in Gowanus. The event was held to celebrate the release of Lena Bloch’s new record “Feathery” (read our review here) and was aided …Read more

It’s not often that a musician can elicit a unique personality on more than one instrument. Andrew Hadro does just that with both the baritone saxophone and the flute on his new record “For Us, The Living”. His baritone has the weightlessness of a bu …Read more

The pianist, the man, the legend: I’m speaking of course about 72-year-old jazz veteran Chick Corea. His two-plus hour solo piano stint at The Town Hall was nothing short of extraordinary. He noted that solo piano is a spectacle best experienced in a …Read more

Taylor McFerrin, son of Bobby McFerrin, proves that musical intuition can indeed be passed down from father to son with this new single, “The Antidote”: https://soundcloud.com/brainfeeder/taylor-mcferrin-the-antidote The single in question will be in …Read more