The Video Playlists

Together with his friend Adam Cuthbért

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”

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

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

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

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

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

Here in Amsterdam there’s a two-piece band

Angélica Negrón is a very active composer in New York

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

This is a London band

A fellow from Kansas who lives in London

Since the 1980s the Parisian jazz guitarist

Luiz Henrique Yudo is a contemporary classical 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 trio comprising the Australian Hugo Race and two American counterparts

In the music of this graduate of

Soft Riot is a musical project initiated by Jack Duckworth

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

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

Soul Keita is one of Nicolas Jaar’s colleagues

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

Jennifer Dalby, better known as Jennifer Left

Nick Pitera can emphasize a vocal passage

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

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

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

Once again a trio

Hailing from Geneva, Switzerland, she is

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

The first of three playlists d’occasion

Jazz in London has been updated by the Portico Quartet

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

In Amsterdam there’s a four-piece band

As the name might already suggest

This is a second playlist of Nicolas Jaar’s music

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

A band from Manchester by way of Huntington Beach

Though the name of the band

The London singer and songwriter

This playlist features the music of the band

Here is a playlist of some compositions by another associate

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

Currently pursuing a doctorate in composition and theory

Le Peep, an evidently one-off musical collaboration

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

A classically-trained euphonium player

Though I chanced upon him to begin with on Soundcloud

Jasmine Thompson, a very young singer in London

Currently, Lady Gaga is back again on tour in Amsterdam

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

This playlist represents a tribute of sorts

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

Ilpo Jauhiainen is a cosmopolitan Finn

A new Australian duo

Hailing from Toronto, Canada, but moving about frequently

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

A short playlist of the compositions of Nikita Quasim

The band French Cassettes – a group from San Francisco

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

The last of the three

A native of Belfast and a resident

The Hungarian band Tripes – currently a duo

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

A DJ and electronic musician in Tokyo

Hailing from Dallas and currently residing in Nashville

Operating in the intermediate zone

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

Knalpot is an Amsterdam band that embraces sound technology yet eschews

The second of three

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

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

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

Next week, Gossip is coming to Amsterdam

From Antwerp, Belgium, this singer and songwriter

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

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.

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

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

The repertoire of the gifted amateur organist in Knetzgau

Over the last several years, under the moniker

Brian Petuch is a young composer in New York

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

A new band based somewhere in the Midlands

Ørjan Matre is a young composer in Norway

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

Samm Bennett’s path has led from

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

A young composer from Adelaide

Stephen Dedalus, a Joycean and a composer

Those who need a refresher course in electronica

There are a number of talented a cappella singers

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

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

With his rough voice and perfect Southern accent in performance

How to sample outmoded or discarded records from near and far

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

Gregory Douglass, a singer/songwriter in Burlington, Vermont