Music
“My relation with the guitar is one of struggle—I’m constantly forcing it to be something else: a saxophone, a scream, a cart rolling down a hill…”
“My relation with the guitar is one of struggle—I’m constantly forcing it to be something else: a saxophone, a scream, a cart rolling down a hill…”
Les Filles de Illighadad’s music is driven by three guitars but remains free from the “tyranny of the solo.”
In the wake of Mark E. Smith’s passing, two recent releases—Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall and Slang King: M.E.S on Stage 1977–2013—chronicle the legacy of The Fall.
IONE is Pauline Oliveros’s partner and collaborator of thirty-two years. Oliveros passed away in November 2016, but her powerful presence has left a lasting mark on experimental and electronic music globally. The following is IONE’s intuited conversation with the late Oliveros and a curated playlist expressive of her legacy.
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.