Is Russ Lossing‘s Proximity Alert more like football or baseball? The analogy works like this: Baseball is fathers and sons tossing a ball in the backyard, measured and casual; Football is a scrimmage, brothers running, grappling and tackling in the same yard.
Throughout his career, Lossing has captained several exceptional trios. With bassist Ed Schuller, he had the rare honor of performing and recording alongside the legendary drummer Paul Motian. In the years that followed, he formed groups with Billy Mintz and Masa Kamaguchi, as well as with bassist John Hébert and a rotation of drummers including Jeff Williams, Adam Kolker and Michael Sarin. His time with Motian, in particular, shaped his appetite for the rough-and-tumble…
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How does music communicate across the ages, and what can it teach about fragility, conflict, resistance and peace? In composing Non Fiction, a symphony presented by the 45-member Manchester Collective, conducted by Hugh Tieppo-Brunt with appearances from Jack Wylie and Valentina Magaletti, 
Continuing his refraction of the rave continuum into pointedly dislocated, delicately bruising sound system meditations, Low End Activist returns to Peak Oil with a second and third instalment in his Airdrop series
Since the mid-1990s, Canadian composer Richard Marsella, better known as 
The invitation is simple: spend an hour immersed in the sounds of melting glaciers, and ask if they sound like living, endangered entities. The water flows like blood; the air escapes like breath; steam leaves like sweat evaporating from a body.
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Deviate may be the debut album from Oxford-based indie Americana band 
Atmosphere is the third album from North Carolina-based singer/songwriter 
There’s no magical trick to creating the perfect cover version. There are good ones and bad ones. There are plenty of bad covers of good songs, and a few good covers of bad songs, and you can never really predict which way it’s likely to go until you hear the results. The spectrum that runs between fidelity to the original and creative reinvention is not a yardstick for quality, but there are a couple of things that seem to help. Firstly, there needs to be a genuine love for the source material (it seems obvious, but this isn’t always evident). Secondly, it often helps if the one doing the covering has an excellent songwriting track record of their own. It helps, perhaps, to have a feel for the mechanics of song, a natural grasp of the link between the music and words as they appear…
Following a spell on the road this year performing with The Pogues, Glasgow-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 
With Taylor Swift exiting her imperial phase and the field of alt-adjacent pop being wider than it ever has been before, it’s a great time to be an up-and-coming singer-songwriter with the skills to make a name for yourself. With Swift becoming something of a critical dud over her last few albums, it’s more popular to chase the mopey guitar pop popularized by Phoebe Bridgers and her Saddest Factory label. Gracie Abrams showed that you could become a pop sensation by putting a glossy sheen on the already glossy boygenius sound. California-by-way-of-Florida songwriter 
“Some people only exist to prang me the fuck out,” decrees the softened Scouse accent of Unreal’s unreliable narrator Ned Green amidst the hurley-burly of early album highlight ‘Sleepers, Awake’. Amidst the catharsis of its geometric, interlocking guitar rhythms, and bee-in-yer-bonnet brass maelstroms, Green’s spoken-word narrations are cut-glass, surgical observations that glimmer with the same wry wit that scaffolds the best work by Richard Dawson, Neil Blackwell, Chris Morris, etc. He searches for deeper meaning in the commonplace; wants ecstasy in the everyday; and, should his ultimate goal be to be the first rock and roll singer to reference the ‘Shaver Only’ plug socket, he succeeds on all counts.
Many important West African musicians built productive careers in 1970s Britain, and the local stars were eager to incorporate their scintillating sounds into their own music. Originally from Ijebu Ode, Nigeria, percussionist 
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