Florence and the Machine Announce 2026 Tour

Florence and the Machine Announce 2026 Tour

Florence and the Machine have announced the tour in support of their forthcoming album, Everybody Scream. The tour begins in the United Kingdom in February, and, later that month, Florence Welch and her band will head to mainland Europe for more dates. The North American leg begins in April, and support on that leg of…

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Rafael Toral Is Murdering the Classics

Rafael Toral Is Murdering the Classics

Rafael Toral’s most recent album, 2024’s Spectral Evolution, consisted of a single 42-minute track, divided into loose, flowing movements, but based on the chord changes of the Gershwin chestnut “I Got Rhythm.” On his follow-up, Traveling Light (October 24), the Portuguese guitarist works smaller, refashioning six jazz standards using his “space instruments”— electronic contraptions of…

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Medicine Music Is Having a Special Moment

Medicine Music Is Having a Special Moment

“Music can heal, if life is put into it.” Those are the words of a holy man named Inayat Khan, plucked from his treatise, The Mysticism of Sound and Music. A renowned musicologist, philosopher and singer, he is largely credited with bringing Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, to the West during his travels through…

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