I Want My… : A Conversation with MTV Co-Founder Fred Seibert

3 years ago

In our prior conversation with Fred Seibert, we discussed his role as a young producer and engineer capturing Cecil Taylor…

Under Niagara Falls: Producer Fred Seibert on Cecil Taylor’s Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert

3 years ago

Many artists can make great music. Very few can change the course of musical history. Cecil Taylor was one of…

Orbital Rings of Saturn: A Conversation with Tyler Mitchell and Marshall Allen (Part Two)

3 years ago

We continue our conversation with Mitchell and Allen with a deeper dive into Dancing Shadows (Mahakala Music, 2022), including Mitchell’s…

Orbital Rings of Saturn: A Conversation with Tyler Mitchell and Marshall Allen (Part One)

3 years ago

"I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I…

Technology and Community: A Conversation with Greg Spero on The Chicago Experiment and NFTs

3 years ago

In 2001, Ropeadope Records released The Philadelphia Experiment, a unique collaborative effort by three artists from the city of Brotherly…

Up for the Challenge: A Conversation with Bob James (Part Two)

3 years ago

We ended the first part of our conversation (available here) with Bob James by discussing artists who have sampled his…

Up for the Challenge: A Conversation with Bob James (Part One)

3 years ago

Across his almost six-decade career, Bob James' music has meant many things to different people. To those who have an…

Review: William Parker’s ‘Migration of Silence into and Out of the Tone World [Volumes 1-10]’

3 years ago

Has there ever been a musician whose musical imagination is as universal and as omnivorous as William Parker's? Perhaps Alexander…

Fela Kuti & Afrika 70’s ‘Zombie’ (1977)

3 years ago

Protest songs, those associated with a movement for social change, have existed at least since the psalms of grassroots Protestant…

Rob Shepherd’s Favorite Albums of 2021

3 years ago

In some ways, 2021 can be seen as a return of music. In reality, through live-stream and various recordings, music…