In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits.

In Reality Blues, Meaghan Garvey tries to find out what is real, song by song. This week, she spotlights Malibu’s singular ...

Over nearly six decades, this fantastically inventive artist experimented with paint, turning it into a sculptural medium.

Considered a genius and visionary songwriter, Beefheart mixed surrealism, free jazz and blues rock to create works of wonder alongside his Magic Band. Again, his work wasn’t entirely unique, but there ...

That period culminated in “Birmingham 1964”, a work Whitten accurately described as a “wound”. Through a hole gouged out of ...

Fans of the renowned soul band Maze, founded by the late Frankie Beverly, will be delighted that TMF (The Music Forever), ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Slinky and complex: Carl Dewhurst’s Avicennia. Carl Dewhurst is among the great chameleons of Australian music. Were each of the ...

Ruthie Foster wasn’t just born to sing, she was probably already singing in the womb. Music pours from her like water from a ...

"Since the Montreal-born, long-US resident Bley's 50's debut with Mingus and Blakey, he's worked with more first-rate, wide ranging original musical minds than anyone but Miles..." —Howard Mandel, ...

When John Lennon brought Yoko Ono into the spotlight in 1968, she instantly became, as David Sheff phrases it, “one of the world’s most hated women”. “Her history,” as the art critic Cristín Leach put ...