The Video Playlists

This playlist represents a tribute of sorts

This is a second playlist of Nicolas Jaar’s music

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

Currently, Lady Gaga is back again on tour in Amsterdam

Luiz Henrique Yudo is a contemporary classical composer

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

Here in Amsterdam there’s a two-piece band

Knalpot is an Amsterdam band that embraces sound technology yet eschews

The second of three

This is a London band

Hailing from Dallas and currently residing in Nashville

A short playlist of the compositions of Nikita Quasim

A fellow from Kansas who lives in London

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

Hailing from Geneva, Switzerland, she is

With his rough voice and perfect Southern accent in performance

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

Soft Riot is a musical project initiated by Jack Duckworth

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

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

In the music of this graduate of

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

Together with his friend Adam Cuthbért

Currently pursuing a doctorate in composition and theory

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

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

Ørjan Matre is a young composer in Norway

The repertoire of the gifted amateur organist in Knetzgau

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

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

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.

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

From Antwerp, Belgium, this singer and songwriter

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

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

A native of Belfast and a resident

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

A classically-trained euphonium player

Hailing from Toronto, Canada, but moving about frequently

Though I chanced upon him to begin with on Soundcloud

Jennifer Dalby, better known as Jennifer Left

Here is a playlist of some compositions by another associate

Next week, Gossip is coming to Amsterdam

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

Over the last several years, under the moniker

Soul Keita is one of Nicolas Jaar’s colleagues

A new band based somewhere in the Midlands

Jazz in London has been updated by the Portico Quartet

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

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

Operating in the intermediate zone

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

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

A young composer from Adelaide

Jasmine Thompson, a very young singer in London

Angélica Negrón is a very active composer in New York

A new Australian duo

The last of the three

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

Ilpo Jauhiainen is a cosmopolitan Finn

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

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

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”

Once again a trio

Stephen Dedalus, a Joycean and a composer

Those who need a refresher course in electronica

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

A band from Manchester by way of Huntington Beach

How to sample outmoded or discarded records from near and far

Since the 1980s the Parisian jazz guitarist

As the name might already suggest

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

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

A DJ and electronic musician in Tokyo

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

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

Though the name of the band

Gregory Douglass, a singer/songwriter in Burlington, Vermont

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

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

Nick Pitera can emphasize a vocal passage

There are a number of talented a cappella singers

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

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 Hungarian band Tripes – currently a duo

Brian Petuch is a young composer in New York

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

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

Le Peep, an evidently one-off musical collaboration

The band French Cassettes – a group from San Francisco

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

This playlist features the music of the band

A trio comprising the Australian Hugo Race and two American counterparts

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

The first of three playlists d’occasion

In Amsterdam there’s a four-piece band

The London singer and songwriter

Samm Bennett’s path has led from