The Video Playlists

A native of Belfast and a resident

A band from Manchester by way of Huntington Beach

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

Currently pursuing a doctorate in composition and theory

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

Soul Keita is one of Nicolas Jaar’s colleagues

Knalpot is an Amsterdam band that embraces sound technology yet eschews

Gregory Douglass, a singer/songwriter in Burlington, Vermont

A new Australian duo

Luiz Henrique Yudo is a contemporary classical composer

The repertoire of the gifted amateur organist in Knetzgau

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

This is a second playlist of Nicolas Jaar’s music

Over the last several years, under the moniker

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

Angélica Negrón is a very active composer in New York

Though I chanced upon him to begin with on Soundcloud

In Amsterdam there’s a four-piece band

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

Jasmine Thompson, a very young singer in London

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

A DJ and electronic musician in Tokyo

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

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

In the music of this graduate of

There are a number of talented a cappella singers

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

From Antwerp, Belgium, this singer and songwriter

Hailing from Geneva, Switzerland, she is

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

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

Samm Bennett’s path has led from

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

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

Brian Petuch is a young composer in New York

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

The London singer and songwriter

With his rough voice and perfect Southern accent in performance

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 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.

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

The first of three playlists d’occasion

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

The last of the three

Here is a playlist of some compositions by another associate

A new band based somewhere in the Midlands

Le Peep, an evidently one-off musical collaboration

A classically-trained euphonium player

The band French Cassettes – a group from San Francisco

Once again a trio

Those who need a refresher course in electronica

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

Hailing from Dallas and currently residing in Nashville

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

As the name might already suggest

Currently, Lady Gaga is back again on tour in Amsterdam

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

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

Hailing from Toronto, Canada, but moving about frequently

Jennifer Dalby, better known as Jennifer Left

A short playlist of the compositions of Nikita Quasim

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”

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

The Hungarian band Tripes – currently a duo

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

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

Though the name of the band

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

This playlist represents a tribute of sorts

A trio comprising the Australian Hugo Race and two American counterparts

How to sample outmoded or discarded records from near and far

This playlist features the music of the band

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

Nick Pitera can emphasize a vocal passage

This is a London band

Together with his friend Adam Cuthbért

The second of three

Since the 1980s the Parisian jazz guitarist

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

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

Operating in the intermediate zone

Next week, Gossip is coming to Amsterdam

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

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 fellow from Kansas who lives in London

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

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

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

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

Ørjan Matre is a young composer in Norway

Ilpo Jauhiainen is a cosmopolitan Finn

Jazz in London has been updated by the Portico Quartet

Here in Amsterdam there’s a two-piece band

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

Stephen Dedalus, a Joycean and a composer

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

A young composer from Adelaide