South African-born, Harlem, New York City raised, DJ/producer AQUTIE is unifying the dance world with her signature global African dance sound, incorporating elements of Afro house, AfroTech, gqom (a South African form of dance music), and amapiano, also a South African genre. And she’s about to tour the world. You just played Coachella for the…
Often, people become acquainted with musical instruments in childhood through Christmas presents, music school, or lessons from friends. But it also happens differently, when the instrument itself finds its musician, sometimes after many years of searching. This emotional phenomenon was experienced by double bass player, arranger, and music teacher Valentyn Korniienko. The musician, who discovered…
What happens in Quebec too often stays in Quebec. A case in point: Viviane Audet. Actress, singer-songwriter, musician, composer — she’d be a big fish in any-sized pond. But as Steve Martin once observed, “It’s like those French have a different word for everything.” The upshot: Her amazing projects have received decidedly limited coverage in…
“Cool. Wow. Being interviewed by SPIN, full circle,” gushes filmmaker and former SPIN intern Chandler Levack while sitting in an empty office of Toronto’s Elevation Pictures. The Canadian company is distributing her new film, Mile End Kicks, which just had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Toronto-born Levack went from music…
Acclaimed Stockholm-based artist/producer/composer Joel Danell, who records as Sven Wunder, is rarely absent from his studio without good reason. But for the past several weeks, he’s dedicated nearly every day to preparing for his first live performances in the U.S., which begin Saturday (Sept. 20) in Philadelphia as part of Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist’s…
After their final shows as a unit in December. the four members of Refused will all remain together in a brand new band. Drummer David Sandström broke the news on Instagram while announcing details of their last gigs in their native Sweden before the end of the year. “We ([guitarist] Mattias [Bärjed], [bassist] Magnus [Flagge],…
Yes, you’re reading this correctly: the Avett Brothers have teamed with eclectic Faith No More/Mr. Bungle vocalist Mike Patton to form AVTT/PTTN, whose self-titled debut album will be released Nov. 14 through Thirty Tigers in association with Ramseur Records and Ipecac Recordings. The lead single, “Eternal Love,” can be sampled below. The musicians are said…
Ozzy Osbourne and his family pull back the curtain on the final years of his life in the Paramount+ documentary OZZY: NO ESCAPE FROM NOW, the first trailer for which is out now. The Tania Alexander-directed film will be released Oct. 7, less than three months after Osbourne’s death at the age of 76. “The…
Westerns feel good, feel right, in volatile, contested times. But not just any Westerns — not kitsch dross like Joel Souza’s Rust, which even a real-life blood curse can’t make matter. No: we’re talking feral sagas of de-civilization which burn like a dirty-ass Book of Job, scorched to the bone with Job’s question, “Why did…
August has come and gone, and with it, more fantastic live music courtesy of our good friends at Raven Sings The Blues! For the past several years, Andy from Raven Sings the Blues has put on an impossibly perfect one-day event at an idyllic brewery in an apple orchard called “Deep In The Valley“. The…
