Known as the Lady Gaga of Vietnam, the artist has been living in the U.S. after speaking out against censorship in her home ...

Few musicians have been as delightfully and fascinatingly weird as Sun Ra. He was born Herman Poole Blount, changed his name to honor the Egyptian god of the sun, believed he was an angelic being from ...

NEW YORK — The experimental jazz group Onyx Collective has a knack for attracting listeners that don’t frequent traditional jazz sets and collaborators whose approval can move the needle. In February, ...

Chicago opera is, inexplicably, hibernating this winter — the city hosts no staged productions until mid-March, with Lyric Opera’s “La bohème.” Thankfully, other groups aren’t following suit. In fact, ...

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Experimental jazz guitarist Ian Smit announces that he will release his new album ¿QUÉ? on December 5, 2025. The album features Scott Petito on acoustic/electric bass and as recording engineer, Tom ...

For decades, the instrumental band Tortoise was the face of the genre known as “post rock.” The catch-all term emerged in the late 1990s to describe music that existed in the gaps between rock and ...