The Panorama

A striking denizen of the New York underground of thirty years ago

Currently pursuing a doctorate in composition and theory

Knalpot is an Amsterdam band that embraces sound technology yet eschews

A new band based somewhere in the Midlands

Nick Pitera can emphasize a vocal passage

The repertoire of the gifted amateur organist in Knetzgau

Those who need a refresher course in electronica

This playlist is dedicated to the works of the contemporary classical composer

A trio comprising the Australian Hugo Race and two American counterparts

Stephen Carmichael (Brisbane, Australia), with his striking performance persona

A new Australian duo

Luiz Henrique Yudo is a contemporary classical composer

Andy Lange is a pop musician in Los Angeles; a songwriter, a singer, a musician (several instruments), and a producer all in one, he has single-handedly been creating some very pleasing music over the last few years, recently in conjunction with fellow musicians Andrew Garcia, Josh Golden, and Chester See. This playlist aims to showcase his … Continue reading Andy Lange, Andrew Garcia, Josh Golden, and Chester See

The second of three

A young composer from Adelaide

Gregory Douglass, a singer/songwriter in Burlington, Vermont

This playlist represents a tribute of sorts

Here in Amsterdam there’s a two-piece band

Ali Brustofski is a New York singer – her videos, very well filmed, are often set there

Ørjan Matre is a young composer in Norway

Here’s a collective playlist that presents some of the music, satire, and humor circulating in one particular corner of downtown New York – the one where Cazwell, Amanda Lepore, and Sherry Vine are to be found (and Peaches too when she’s in town). It includes some of their music, some of their fun self-promotion, and some … Continue reading New York, Downtown: Cazwell, Peaches, Lepore, and Vine

It’s a very witty sort of dance music that Boogie Belgique makes

Currently, Lady Gaga is back again on tour in Amsterdam

A.P.P.L.A.U.S.E. – spelling out the word

Although he’s since moved to Los Angeles, Eli Lieb visits the city in which his musical life began

Over the last several years, under the moniker

The first of three playlists d’occasion

With his rough voice and perfect Southern accent in performance

From Antwerp, Belgium, this singer and songwriter

There are a number of talented a cappella singers

The Hungarian band Tripes – currently a duo

Next week, Gossip is coming to Amsterdam

One of the most interesting of young composers and musicians in New York

A pianist, singer, and – it’s becoming clear – a born presence on stage

The band 17 Hippies was first formed in the mid-nineties in Berlin

A classically-trained euphonium player

Brian Petuch is a young composer in New York

In Amsterdam there’s a four-piece band

A young band from Amsterdam, Avant la Lettre – the name’s French, but they perform entirely in English – has been breaking through this year with a number of live performances for Dutch radio and television, and a first album, Belief.

Soul Keita is one of Nicolas Jaar’s colleagues

Known for her couture, the English heiress Daphne Guinness is less often recognized for

Craig Yopp is a singer in Sydney who, in some of his covers at least

As the name might already suggest

Cornelia (Cornelia Dahlgren) is a young Swedish singer and master of the remix

A fellow from Kansas who lives in London

Forestears is a band in Brighton with at least one pun in its name

Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets, an Amsterdam DJ duo specializing in house music

This is a London band

Andi Kristins, from Reykjavik and living in New York, is a singer, songwriter, and electronic musician

Since the 1980s the Parisian jazz guitarist

The London singer and songwriter

Jonathan Nichol plays the saxophone in Billband, but his solo repertoire

Over the last couple of years, Nicolas Jaar has been turning

The band French Cassettes – a group from San Francisco

Stephen Dedalus, a Joycean and a composer

This playlist features the music of the band

Bill Ryan is a contemporary classical composer, producer, and educator

Together with his friend Adam Cuthbért

A composer in Milan, Giovanni Dettori is well-known for

Jasmine Thompson, a very young singer in London

A short playlist of the compositions of Nikita Quasim

Samm Bennett’s path has led from

Though I chanced upon him to begin with on Soundcloud

Jennifer Dalby, better known as Jennifer Left

This band makes “music for the end of the world,” and though the term

A native of Belfast and a resident

Angélica Negrón is a very active composer in New York

A DJ and electronic musician in Tokyo

Peter Hollens, of Eugene, Oregon, is a prominent beatboxer

Jornt Karel is a musician and singer located in another corner of this country

Whether Michael Kiwanuka is letting loose with his band or going solo

Hailing from Geneva, Switzerland, she is

Though the name of the band

With a conservatory training, in the hands of this Slovakian musician

In The Netherlands there’s a DJ who’s in a class all his own

Here is a playlist of some compositions by another associate

A tabla player and vocalist from southern India who’s made his home in Paris

Tona Scherchen is a present-day composer whose name, though not unknown

Ilpo Jauhiainen is a cosmopolitan Finn

Today’s encounter with “Love Will Tear Us Apart” was unexpected, and I was struck, but not for the first time, how this song is one of those capable of evoking an entire period even decades later. Then, nearly automatically, I started to hum that other old hit, New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle,” which is even more … Continue reading “Bizarre Love Triangle”

Pursuit Grooves (the multitalented Vanese Smith), known on both sides of the Atlantic

Singer and pianist from Austin, Texas; one who knows well how to convey inward feeling.

Le Peep, an evidently one-off musical collaboration

In the music of this graduate of

Női Kabát (the term, I’ve learned, means a “woman’s jacket” in Hungarian) is “a dark electronic three piece from London”

Hailing from Dallas and currently residing in Nashville

How to sample outmoded or discarded records from near and far

Stephen Edwards is a young American composer nearly finished with his studies

Operating in the intermediate zone

Jazz in London has been updated by the Portico Quartet

A saxophonist, a composer, and an adept of the computer

This is a second playlist of Nicolas Jaar’s music

Whom by Fire (known earlier as Caleb) is a duo hailing from Southend-on-Sea

A band from Manchester by way of Huntington Beach

Once again a trio

The last of the three

Hailing from Toronto, Canada, but moving about frequently

Soft Riot is a musical project initiated by Jack Duckworth