Built around the concept of the “overview effect”—the astronaut’s humbling realization of Earth’s smallness in the vastness ...

In this edition of SampleRadar, we're getting our funk on, and it's all about the keys: organs, electric pianos and synths.

Hy Noah is a moderately young artist, who's been an avid music fan since his early years but has only released music in the ...

“Warm Leatherette” – The Normal This was our theme song during the Blank-Wave Arcade era. Daniel Miller founded Mute Records in order to release this genius 7″ single in 1978. It’s a robotic love ...

In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...

On her latest album, the L.A. producer trades the grit and swung rhythms of her early work for sleek house and disco beats.

This week on Liner Notes, we discuss “Songs from the Big Chair,” the 1985 masterpiece that captured the complexities of human ...

Michelle Zauner’s new album with Japanese Breakfast explores the many ways in which sadness pervades modern womanhood Credit ...

Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty may have had a symbiotic relationship in many ways, but were one of his tunes better suited to the 'Gold Dust Woman'?

The night showcased New Order’s enduring ability to craft propulsive electronic music, and keep audiences singing along.

The latest reinvention of Haley Fohr finds the Indiana-born singer-composer taking a headlong dive into her own inner world, ...