With a summer tour kicking off next month, the Smashing Pumpkins have made good on the promise of new music with a new song. Billy Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin have shared “Solara.” It’s the Pumpkins’ first song with Corgan, Iha, and Chamberlin since 2000. The band’s fourth founding member, bassist D’arcy Wretzky, is not involved. Listen below. More
Far away from mundane reality lies the music of DJ Koze. The German producer builds a fantasy world where aesthetic beauty soaked in memory can hold life at bay for an hour or two at a time. Given his dreamy predilections, his music never strives for relevance and it doesn’t care about the shifting fashion of the moment. More
Poo Bear’s impact on pop culture is undeniable. Having crafted hits for artists as diverse as Sam Smith, DJ Khaled, Chris Brown and J Balvin (not to mention songwriting and production credits on the bulk of Justin Bieber’s chart-conquering Purpose album), it was only a matter of time before he launched an artist project. Poo Bear Presents: Bearthday Music drops on April 27 and it’s a genre-hopping collection of bops with a staggering lineup of featured artists including Justin, Jennifer Lopez, Anitta and Zara Larsson. More
Seattle based lo-fi, experimental, psychedelic, pop rock collective Basement Surfers deliver a truly unique and compelling sonic and visual experience through their live performances. More
Summary: According to researchers, embarking in physical activity makes people appreciate the musical sounds they produce more, even if the sounds do not correspond with their personal musical tastes.
Source: Max Planck Institute.
Physical exertion increases the appreciation of the sounds produced in music making, even they don’t correspond to one’s own musical style. More
Music and (Social/Cultural) Resilience
Not only is music an important conduit for ecological awareness, it is also a powerful expression of resilience. More
2016 was a year full of music activities in our Palestine Community Music program. While we already started a new project in a school for children with special needs in al-Khader, we would like to look back and share with you who we reached in 2016. More
In my previous post I tried to present an overview of the different strategies we use when thinking about music in advertising and marketing media. More
It’s official: according to a new year-end report released by Nielsen, over the course of 2016, streaming became the primary mode of music consumption in the U.S. Overall on-demand audio streams surpassed 251 billion in 2016–a 76 percent increase that accounts for 38 percent of the entire music consumption market. Plus, “the on-demand audio streaming share [of total music consumption] has now surpassed total digital sales (digital albums + digital track equivalents) for the first time in history.”
As previously reported by BuzzAngle, there were more streams on an average day in 2016 than song downloads for the entire…
Check out some of the KEXP DJ’s favorite artists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world on-the-go. KEXP’s Music That Matters weekly podcast brings you an exclusive mix of new music from the world’s best independent artists.
Currently you’ll hear:
Music That Matters, Vol. 544 – 2016 Trans Musicales Festival and Other Gems
DJ Morgan presents a collection of artists KEXP recently discovered at the 38th annual…