Burning Ambulance Music
After 10 years of existence, and gradual growth from a print zine to the website you’re currently reading to a beloved podcast, Burning Ambulance is expanding yet again. Our label, Burning Ambulance...
View ArticleO’Neal’s Porch @ 20
Bassist William Parker had already been a key figure on the New York jazz scene for close to 30 years in 2001. His first record date was in March 1973, on saxophonist Frank Lowe‘s Black Beings. (An...
View ArticleSana Nagano
Smashing Humans is the debut album by Brooklyn-based violinist Sana Nagano, and also the name of the ensemble she has assembled to perform it. In addition to Nagano’s violin, the group consists of...
View ArticleSorey/AWS
The new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound has released a new album, For George Lewis/Autoschediasms. It features recordings of two compositions by Tyshawn Sorey. For George Lewis has never been recorded...
View ArticleAva Mendoza
Guitarist Ava Mendoza has a solo album, New Spells, coming at the end of November. The CD version is on Relative Pitch, while the cassette and digital versions are on Astral Spirits. The album offers...
View ArticleChaos Magick
In 2015, prolific composer John Zorn debuted Simulacrum, a trio featuring organist John Medeski, guitarist Matt Hollenberg, and drummer Kenny Grohowski. He did not play with the group, but he wrote...
View ArticleTitan To Tachyons
From the outside looking in, NYC appears to be populated by elite musicians who obsess over the boundaries between jazz and metal and continue to spit out record after record of mind-melting fusion...
View ArticleLoud As Giants
While it’s likely to be overshadowed by the release of a new Godflesh record in June, Justin K. Broadrick has teamed up with Dirk Serries of Vidna Obmana and Fear Falls Burning in the collaborative...
View ArticlePurple Trap
In case you hadn’t heard, John Zorn (who turned 70 on September 2) has at long last allowed his Tzadik label’s catalog to appear on streaming services like Spotify and Tidal. With close to 1000...
View ArticleSpy Vs. Spy @ 35
John Zorn has been operating with total independence for over 30 years. In 1992, he started Avant Records, with distribution via the Japanese label DIW. Three years later, he launched Tzadik, which...
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