Music
On techno-spirituality, impending doom, and making failed pop songs.
On techno-spirituality, impending doom, and making failed pop songs.
On her newly released collection of circuitous sound works created in the early ’90s.
On the grief, softness, and spiritual mania of L’Rain.
New music, videos, and visuals from the multidisciplinary artist.
On her latest album, anime, and Édouard Glissant.
Videos that mix children’s entertainment and existential dread.
Celebrating 40 years with curated selections from the archive.
The revered composer, and fastest piano player alive, discusses his Continuous Music practice as a spiritual force.
June explores the roots—and the promise—of blues, gospel, and folk music on her new album, The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers.
This excerpt is from BOMB’s Spring 2021 issue.
Recordings of endless border walls, vast piles of garbage, and organs in the human body.
In a two-way interview, the musicians talk about their approach to metal and improvisational music that navigates chaos and the division between genres.
On addressing systemic issues and creating access in the classical music industry.
The anonymous industrial music duo on engaging the ideological minefield of US-Taiwan-China relations.
For this particularly challenging year, we’ve asked IONE, Lea Bertucci, Craig Taborn, Mary Halvorson, Felicia Atkinson, Miho Hatori, and Matana Roberts to tell us what sustained them.
Reissued for the first time after fifty years, the Black Unity Trio’s rare and explosive free jazz album Al-Fatihah still resonates with the sounds of solidarity amid a scene of intense political struggle.
An album inspired by filmmaker Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage.
Wainwright talks about his tenth studio album, the “anemic” state of pop lyrics, and why Leonard Cohen—not Bob Dylan—should have won the Nobel Prize.
Accessing the interiority of sounds.
In May, BOMB asked artists how COVID-19 and quarantine were affecting their creative process. How were they making art now?
Lafawndah extends outward, drawing on the emotionally charged myths of N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy to guide her.
