The Video Playlists

As the name might already suggest

This playlist features the music of the band

Currently, Lady Gaga is back again on tour in Amsterdam

A new Australian duo

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

The last of the three

Soft Riot is a musical project initiated by Jack Duckworth

Currently pursuing a doctorate in composition and theory

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

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

This is a London band

Nick Pitera can emphasize a vocal passage

Hailing from Toronto, Canada, but moving about frequently

A classically-trained euphonium player

Gregory Douglass, a singer/songwriter in Burlington, Vermont

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

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

A native of Belfast and a resident

Since the 1980s the Parisian jazz guitarist

Jennifer Dalby, better known as Jennifer Left

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

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

Together with his friend Adam Cuthbért

Knalpot is an Amsterdam band that embraces sound technology yet eschews

In the music of this graduate of

Though the name of the band

A DJ and electronic musician in Tokyo

Angélica Negrón is a very active composer in New York

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

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

Le Peep, an evidently one-off musical collaboration

Soul Keita is one of Nicolas Jaar’s colleagues

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

The band French Cassettes – a group from San Francisco

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

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

In Amsterdam there’s a four-piece band

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

Here is a playlist of some compositions by another associate

This is a second playlist of Nicolas Jaar’s music

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”

Operating in the intermediate zone

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

Samm Bennett’s path has led from

A short playlist of the compositions of Nikita Quasim

There are a number of talented a cappella singers

Next week, Gossip is coming to Amsterdam

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

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

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.

Over the last several years, under the moniker

Jasmine Thompson, a very young singer in London

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

A band from Manchester by way of Huntington Beach

Brian Petuch is a young composer in New York

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

The repertoire of the gifted amateur organist in Knetzgau

From Antwerp, Belgium, this singer and songwriter

A trio comprising the Australian Hugo Race and two American counterparts

The Hungarian band Tripes – currently a duo

With his rough voice and perfect Southern accent in performance

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

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

A young composer from Adelaide

Those who need a refresher course in electronica

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

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

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

The second of three

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

Hailing from Dallas and currently residing in Nashville

Though I chanced upon him to begin with on Soundcloud

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.

Once again a trio

Jazz in London has been updated by the Portico Quartet

The London singer and songwriter

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

Stephen Dedalus, a Joycean and a composer

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

A new band based somewhere in the Midlands

Ørjan Matre is a young composer in Norway

Luiz Henrique Yudo is a contemporary classical composer

Here in Amsterdam there’s a two-piece band

This playlist represents a tribute of sorts

A fellow from Kansas who lives in London

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

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

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

Hailing from Geneva, Switzerland, she is

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

The first of three playlists d’occasion

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

How to sample outmoded or discarded records from near and far

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

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

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

Ilpo Jauhiainen is a cosmopolitan Finn