Today's Music Pulse
Oliver Tree dies at 32 in Rio de Janeiro helicopter crash
Singer‑songwriter Oliver Tree, 32, was killed in a helicopter crash in Rio de Janeiro. The tragedy was reported by Deadline and echoed by Clash Music.
Larrison, “Connecters Volume 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999”
Freedom to Spend has unearthed and reissued Larrison Seidle’s rare cassette *Connecters* Volume 1, the sole surviving copy of a lo‑fi, Casio‑CZ‑5000‑crafted album recorded between 1992 and 1999. The tape, discovered among 1,200 cassettes from Austin’s *ND* archive, showcases short, synth‑driven sketches that blend sci‑fi atmospheres with DIY drum programming. The release positions the work as a proto‑vaporwave artifact, predating the retro‑futurist wave that dominates niche electronic scenes today. The collection offers listeners a time‑capsule of early 90s bedroom production techniques.
Shortcuts Share Sol
The Shortcuts project, originally launched by Austin‑born guitarist Steven Svacina, has been revived by Svacina and fellow Austin native‑turned‑Northern artist Eric Bill, joined by a group of collaborators. Their new track showcases Svacina’s signature fuzzy‑guitar textures, building a dense wall...
Javier Nero Blends Modern Elements with Big Band Jazz
Jazz trombonist and composer Javier Nero has released his second big‑band album, Alkebulan, with the Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra. The record blends classic big‑band orchestration with modern influences such as hip‑hop grooves, Afro‑Cuban polyrhythms, and odd‑meter structures, featuring guest vocalists...
Taste – “In Style”
Oli Lipton, now performing as Cindy, is launching a solo project under the moniker Taste. The debut album, titled "1/2 Fantasy," drops on May 29 through the independent label Tough Love. The record stitches together fragments from Lipton’s earlier cassette...
100 Recordings Reviewed: Proof of Listening, Proof of Life
Proof of listening, proof of life: I reviewed 100 recordings for THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE Thank you for reading, for subscribing, for telling a friend https://open.substack.com/pub/thefutureisourstomake/p/who-are-you-going-down-in-history
Soft Power Share Desperate Dan
Soft Power, a UK‑based musical project, has released a new track that melds wistful guitar lines with a relentless, metronomic rhythm section. The song’s vocal delivery channels the emotive intensity of TV on the Radio, creating a soulful hook that...
London Collective Y Release Scathing New Single ‘Duplicate’
London collective Y has dropped a new single, “Duplicate,” ahead of their second EP due this spring. The track, described by the band as a critique of narcissistic conformity, follows recent buzz from Dork Magazine’s HYPE List and a DIY...
Tracey Nelson Announces Hercules
Tracey Nelson has announced his 2026 album "Hercules," slated for a June release on the indie powerhouses K Records and Perennial. The label, already buzzing with releases from Winston Hightower and Touch Girl Apple Blossom, positions the record as a...
Tour Smarter, Not Harder: The New Rules of the Road
A Ditto Music survey reveals that 82% of independent artists can no longer afford traditional touring as fuel, crew wages and hotel rates surge. To stay profitable, musicians are adopting residency‑style schedules, playing fewer cities but staying longer to slash...
Bonnie Raitt Albums Ranked Worst to Best
The article ranks Bonnie Raitt’s 18 studio albums, highlighting the dramatic arc from her early, critically praised but commercially modest releases to the career‑defining comeback with 1989’s *Nick of Time*. It details how mismatched producers and label pressure produced uneven...
The Earliest Days of Talking Heads Are a Revelation
Rhino’s March 6 2026 three‑CD compilation assembles Talking Heads’ earliest demos and live recordings from 1974‑77, capturing the band as a raw power trio before their debut album and before Jerry Harrison joined. The set features apartment sessions, CBS studio demos, a...
National Theatre in Prague 2025-26 Review: Parsifal
The National Theatre in Prague opened its 2025‑26 season with a daring production of Wagner’s Parsifal, directed by Andreas Homoki. Homoki replaces the traditional mystical setting with a Kafka‑inspired bureaucratic archive, using a rotating conical set to symbolize the containment of knowledge....
Post Malone Announces Hong Kong Stadium Show – Presale Starts April
Post Malone to perform at Kai Tak Stadium September 16th. Ticket presale: • Artist presale April 24th • HSBC Mastercard & Trip.com April 27th • LiveNation April 29th General ticket sales from April 30th. https://www.livenation.hk/event/post-malone-presents-the-big-stadium-world-tour-hong-kong-tickets-edp1664523
Morgan Evans Washes Through Memento Mori
Australian country singer‑songwriter Morgan Evans releases "Steel Town," an album that trades the genre’s usual swagger for introspective storytelling. The record blends pedal‑steel riffs, rustic strings, and eclectic influences ranging from Hawaiian guitar to British rock, while featuring harmony vocals...
Caroline Davis Explores Endless Musical Possibilities
Caroline Davis releases *Fallows*, her first true solo album, recorded during a four‑week residency in Ucross, Wyoming. The project fuses her alto saxophone with a custom processing unit called an organelle and incorporates field recordings of snow, birds, and water....
Rachel Love :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Rachel Love, a founding member of the pioneering all‑female trio Dolly Mixture, has launched a solo career more than forty years after her initial breakthrough. Indie label Slumberland is reissuing her recent solo LPs, including the tribute album *Lyra* to...
Gorillaz Receive Plaque For 10th Show At Motorpoint Arena Nottingham, UK
Gorillaz marked a milestone on March 28 by receiving a Golden Arrow plaque for their tenth performance at Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena, a venue that seats roughly 12,000. The show sold 8,772 tickets and generated about $1.05 million in gross revenue, contributing...
Listen to Jimmy Page’s Original Home Demo for Led Zeppelin’s ‘Ten Years Gone’
Jimmy Page uploaded a rare home demo of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 track “Ten Years Gone” to his official YouTube channel, giving listeners a glimpse of the song’s embryonic form. The stripped‑back recording captures Page’s early guitar layering and the mood...
Wendy Eisenberg
Singer‑songwriter Wendy Eisenberg released a self‑titled album that fuses folk, indie, and experimental pop, earning a 7.5/10 rating from Under the Radar Magazine. The record delves into themes of loneliness, youth, memory, and existential dread, highlighted by poetic lyrics such...
Brown Horse – Total Dive
Brown Horse, the alt‑rock quartet led by Patrick Turner, drops its third album Total Dive on April 10, 2026. The record pushes the band’s sound louder and harder, weaving grunge‑era distortion with folk‑tinged pedal steel and accordion. Lyrically, it explores...
Evilgiane’s Camera Roll From His Tour with Snow Strippers
Experimental rap collective Surf Gang and electronic duo Snow Strippers launched a U.S. tour in January and February, sharing the stage across multiple cities. Label head Evilgiane said the partnership arose from a shared taste in music, merging cutting‑edge rap...
Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Good Kid, m.A.A.d City’ Hits 700 Weeks on Billboard 200
Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, has logged 700 straight weeks on the Billboard 200, climbing to No. 54. The milestone makes it the first hip‑hop studio album to achieve such longevity and confirms its diamond‑eligible status after surpassing...
“He May Be Alluding to Life, the Universe or a Balance Sheet, for All the Listener Knows”: The 1980 Album...
New Musik’s 1980 debut album “From A To B” delivered three Top‑20 singles and positioned the band at the crossroads of progressive rock and emerging synth‑pop. Frontman Tony Mansfield acted as both songwriter and sound architect, employing early Korg, Roland,...
Sultan Stevenson to Be BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist 2026-2028
Pianist Sultan Stevenson has been announced as the tenth jazz musician selected for the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists program, which runs from September 2026 to December 2028. The scheme, now in its third decade, spotlights emerging talent across classical and jazz...
Listen to Peter Gabriel’s New Track, “Till Your Mind Is Shining”
Peter Gabriel has dropped the fourth single, “Till Your Mind Is Shining,” from his forthcoming double‑album o\/i, continuing a moon‑phase rollout that began in January. The track arrives on the pink full moon and is presented in a Dark‑Side Mix...
Eliza Edens – Leash
Eliza Edens released the upbeat single “Leash” in 2026, blending folk, country, and contemporary pop. The track earned a positive review on mp3hugger, highlighting its uplifting, radio‑friendly vibe. By distributing the song through Bandcamp and leveraging social media, Edens showcases...
Jesca Hoop Shares Propulsive New Single and Video “Big Storm”
Jesca Hoop released the propulsive single “Big Storm” on May 1, 2026, alongside a striking video that blends new footage with historic Prelinger Archives material. The track leads the forthcoming album Long Wave Home, her seventh solo effort and first fully self‑produced,...
Ye’s ‘BULLY’ Projected to Debut at No. 2
Ye’s twelfth studio album, *BULLY*, dropped via his YZY imprint and Gamma multimedia, and early tracking predicts roughly 117,000 equivalent units in its first week. The numbers would land the record at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, trailing BTS’s *ARIRANG*....
Inside Ye's First Comeback Show at SoFi Stadium
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, headlined his first Los Angeles stadium concert in two years at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium, debuting material from his new album “Bully.” The show followed the album’s release, which industry trackers predict will enter the charts...
Kasabian Return with Euphoric New Anthem ‘Great Pretender’
Kasabian released “Great Pretender,” the second single from their upcoming ninth album Act III. The track, produced by frontman Serge Pizzorno with Mark Ralph, drops July 17 and is built for festival stages. The band will debut the song on Sky One’s...
Predicting Tomorrow’s Music, Not Just Reporting Yesterday
Most music newsletters tell you what happened. Mine tells you what's about to happen. There's a difference. Come find out. https://t.co/54vH3nWFBw
Jazzdor Strasbourg-Budapest Festival 2026
The third Jazzdor Strasbourg‑Budapest Festival unfolded over four evenings at Budapest’s Opus Jazz Club, co‑organized by Jazzdor and the Budapest Music Center. The program highlighted a mix of French, Hungarian and international acts, from the sax‑driven quartet Big Fish to...
Deaf Echo – “All But Love”
Los Angeles‑based indie rock trio Deaf Echo released their new single “All But Love,” a track that melds The Strokes‑style guitar work with Tame Impala‑inspired pop vocals. The song debuted on SoundCloud and is being promoted through the band’s Instagram, leveraging streaming...
Elk Darling – “The Cecil Hotel”
Elk Darling, the solo project of singer‑songwriter Jordan Miller, has dropped “The Cecil Hotel,” the fourth single ahead of his forthcoming *Satanic Panic* EP. The track delves into the macabre lore of Los Angeles’s infamous Cecil Hotel, weaving references from...
Gregory Ackerman – “Call Me Crazy”
Los Angeles singer‑songwriter Gregory Ackerman has dropped “Call Me Crazy,” the lead single from his forthcoming album Challenger Deep. The track departs from his folk roots, embracing a soulful, funk‑adelic blend with gospel backing vocals and bluesy grooves reminiscent of...
The Bad Plus, Chris Potter and Craig Taborn at the Barbican
At the Barbican Centre, Craig Taborn, Chris Potter and Bad Plus veterans Reid Anderson and Dave King staged a tribute to Keith Jarrett’s 1973‑76 American Quartet. Rather than copy the original sound, they pursued the quartet’s spirit of experimentation, drawing from...
Give My Remains to Broadway – “Forever Awake”
Toronto‑based darkwave/post‑punk duo Give My Remains to Broadway has returned with the single “Forever Awake.” The track blends gothic‑leaning new wave, post‑punk aggression and a subtle dance groove, drawing comparisons to The Cure, Future Islands and The Horrors. Accompanied by...
Mono Mochi – “Cats”
Swiss indie outfit Mono Mochi has dropped a new single titled “Cats,” inspired by the metaphor of a world‑wide cat biting its own tail. The track is presented as a dreamy folk composition that leans on stripped‑down acoustic instrumentation and...
Mulatu Astatke
Mulatu Astatke, the Ethiopian multi‑instrumentalist who pioneered Ethio‑jazz, was the first African student at Berklee College of Music and later blended jazz with traditional Ethiopian folk. His early recordings from the late 1960s and early 1970s are compiled in Ethiopiques,...
WIOO – “Static Ends In Colour”
London‑based project WIOO has dropped its debut single “Static Ends In Colour”, an instrumental track that fuses post‑rock dynamics with cinematic ambience and ambient textures. The composition opens with widescreen atmospheric layers, then weaves haunting strings and subtle beats into...
Collaboration Spikes in Both Music Releases and Scientific Papers
Observation of a COLAB [sic] trend: new song releases on Spotify match same trend in new scientific paper releases… respectively MORE musical artist collaborators on new songs (combining fan bases) + MORE scientist authors collaborators on papers (combining know how)
‘Lemonade Out of Lemons’: The Bluesfest Stars Playing Byron Pubs Following Festival Collapse
The long‑running Byron Bay Bluesfest collapsed, leaving over $10 million (≈US$6.6 million) in unpaid debts to ticket holders and suppliers. In response, local venues have organized a pop‑up “Bluesfest” across pubs and clubs, featuring big‑name acts such as The Living End, The...
Deconstructing Carlos Kleiber for Our Troubled Times
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s abrupt leadership change has reignited debate over what a conductor truly does. The article uses the legendary Carlos Kleiber’s 1970 rehearsal of Die Fledermaus as a case study to illustrate the qualities of a great maestro. It...
A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying Review: Dark, Bold and Playfully Queer
Cassie Hamilton’s new musical *A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying* opened at Sydney’s Old Fitz Theatre, marrying hyper‑pop, drum‑and‑bass soundscapes with a rom‑com structure to explore trans identity in the digital age. Developed through ATYP’s Fresh Ink and previously...
Bruce Springsteen Launches Politically Charged "Land of Hope and Dreams" Tour in Minneapolis
Bruce Springsteen opened the American leg of his "Land of Hope and Dreams" tour in Minneapolis on March 31, branding the shows as a political intervention on immigration and Trump-era policies. The legacy rocker’s statements and new anti‑ICE song have...
Bianca Censori Comes Further Into Focus in Filmaking Debut for Ye’s ‘Fathers’
Australian architect and performance artist Bianca Censori made her filmmaking debut directing the music video for Ye’s new track “Father,” featuring Travis Scott. The surreal, single‑take video transforms a church into a dreamlike set filled with symbolic figures and dystopian imagery....
"Music That People Listen To"
The article argues that traditional music genres have lost relevance in the streaming era, where algorithms and playlists shape listening habits more than label‑based identities. It cites Lil Yachty’s “music that people listen to” response as a symptom of a culture...
Weezer's New Single Hints at Color‑named Album
Weezer released a single for an as-yet-untitled new album, which means they're just going to pick a color instead of coming up with a title
INTERIORS – “100 Days”
Australian indie trio Interiors has dropped their latest single “100 Days,” a bright jangle‑pop anthem with warm guitars and brass accents. The track previews their upcoming debut album Suburban Dark, slated for release next month. “100 Days” follows the earlier...
Kimbal's Epic Drop Show Hits Austin April 17‑18
Austin peeps: @kimbal is doing an epic drop show on April 17th & 18th! Ticket link and discount code in reply tweet https://t.co/YvDSRhBSYW