Notes

13
Jun

‘Everyday People’ + ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’

This past week, we lost two giants of 1960s music: Sly Stone, the bandleader and composer for Sly and the
11
Jun

Playing in the gray

In the 1990s, London was the number-one destination for corrupt businessmen from the former Soviet Union, most of whom
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10
Jun

‘Unidos (with Daphni)’

Sofia Kourtesis, the blazing, Berlin-based DJ, has teamed up with Dan Snaith (AKA Caribou), as his dance-music alias,
09
Jun

Welcome to the machine

It was a shocking operation. Ukrainian officials say they spent almost a year planning it. They smuggled drones deep within
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08
Jun

‘Signs’

The Icelandic composer and multi-instrumentalist Ólafur Arnalds has a new record coming out July 11, A Dawning—cut with
06
Jun

‘Malibu’

Yussef Dayes is a British jazz drummer known for exploring polyrhythms far outside the American-jazz frame of reference—here,
05
Jun

Introducing ‘Out of Control’

There are all kinds of ways life might conspire to make other people’s experiences difficult for you to imagine.
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04
Jun

‘Swimming Pool’

The Australians-moved-to-London indie rockers HTRK are bringing new life to the tradition of Mazzy Star and the
01
Jun

‘River King’

The Stockholm-based post-punk band Viagra Boys put out their fourth album last month, and this, the closing track,
30
May

‘You Got Time and I Got Money’

Smerz is a Norwegian electronic music duo that splits their time between Oslo and Copenhagen. Big City Life is their