What better soundtrack could you have for celebrating Independence Day than the most unbound kind…
Jazz + Blues
The Other Sides of Little Richard
No sentient human needs to be informed about Little Richard’s place in the rock ’n’…
A Warm Bath for Your Soul
There’s never been a time when there wasn’t craziness going on in the world. Sometimes…
Lady Plays the Blues: Killer Female Blues Guitarists
Blues iconography is overloaded with male guitar heroes, to the point that you’d think nobody…
Haruki Murakami’s Vinyl Collection
What’s This Playlist All About? The author behind such modern-day classics as Norwegian Wood and…
Erik Deutsch’s Hammers, Strings, Stops & Knobs
Keyboardist Erik Deutsch‘s sound has been described as “a gumbo of American music that touches…
Kamasi Washington, Bob Dylan, and the Idea of Gateway Artists
Subscribe to the accompanying Spotify playlist that culls the influences of Kamasi Washington’s album, Heaven…
How Pharoah Sanders Captured the Promise and Chaos of Revolution
Subscribe to our “Best of Pharoah Sanders” playlist here, and follow us on Spotify here.…
Astral Traveling: The Ecstasy of Spiritual Jazz
When it comes to excavating history in the traditionally under-reported world of avant-garde music, Andy…
Kamasi Washington and The Politics of Culture in Trump’s America
Check out Kamasi’s new tracks in the playlist above, which captures his best alongside the…