The Video Playlists

With his rough voice and perfect Southern accent in performance

A classically-trained euphonium player

Since the 1980s the Parisian jazz guitarist

The second of three

Stephen Dedalus, a Joycean and a composer

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

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

Ilpo Jauhiainen is a cosmopolitan Finn

Jennifer Dalby, better known as Jennifer Left

This is a second playlist of Nicolas Jaar’s music

Le Peep, an evidently one-off musical collaboration

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

The repertoire of the gifted amateur organist in Knetzgau

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

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

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

A young composer from Adelaide

Soft Riot is a musical project initiated by Jack Duckworth

As the name might already suggest

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

Jazz in London has been updated by the Portico Quartet

Soul Keita is one of Nicolas Jaar’s colleagues

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

Ørjan Matre is a young composer in Norway

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

Hailing from Geneva, Switzerland, she is

A new Australian duo

Nick Pitera can emphasize a vocal passage

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

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

Knalpot is an Amsterdam band that embraces sound technology yet eschews

A band from Manchester by way of Huntington Beach

This playlist represents a tribute of sorts

Next week, Gossip is coming to Amsterdam

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

Brian Petuch is a young composer in New York

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

A short playlist of the compositions of Nikita Quasim

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

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”

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

Gregory Douglass, a singer/songwriter in Burlington, Vermont

Samm Bennett’s path has led from

Luiz Henrique Yudo is a contemporary classical composer

Currently pursuing a doctorate in composition and theory

A DJ and electronic musician in Tokyo

The Hungarian band Tripes – currently a duo

In Amsterdam there’s a four-piece band

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

Over the last several years, under the moniker

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

Those who need a refresher course in electronica

A native of Belfast and a resident

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

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

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

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

The London singer and songwriter

Hailing from Dallas and currently residing in Nashville

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

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.

Here is a playlist of some compositions by another associate

Here in Amsterdam there’s a two-piece band

Once again a trio

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

The band French Cassettes – a group from San Francisco

A trio comprising the Australian Hugo Race and two American counterparts

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

From Antwerp, Belgium, this singer and songwriter

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

Operating in the intermediate zone

Though the name of the band

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

This is a London band

Angélica Negrón is a very active composer in New York

Together with his friend Adam Cuthbért

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

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

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

The first of three playlists d’occasion

Jasmine Thompson, a very young singer in London

A fellow from Kansas who lives in London

Though I chanced upon him to begin with on Soundcloud

Currently, Lady Gaga is back again on tour in Amsterdam

A new band based somewhere in the Midlands

In the music of this graduate of

How to sample outmoded or discarded records from near and far

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

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

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

The last of the three

This playlist features the music of the band

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

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

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

Hailing from Toronto, Canada, but moving about frequently

There are a number of talented a cappella singers