Robyn

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Generational pop icon Robyn has released her ninth studio album, Sexistential on 27th March 2026 via Young. Sexistential is the most ecstatic record that Robyn has ever made, the sound of one of contemporary music’s most influential artists coming home. After the club music meditations of 2018’s Honey, the album features nine, deeply playful pop songs that tie back to her era-defining Body Talk trilogy, designed to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing”, she says. “That’s how I felt, like I’d had all these experiences searching too far out into space, and now I’m crashing back into myself.” Co-produced mainly with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund, and featuring Max Martin among the writing credits (their first collaborations since 2010’s “Time Machine”), Sexistential heralds of the decade’s most celebrated comebacks. Featuring the singles “Dopamine”, “Talk To Me” and “Sexistential”, it’s emphatic and punchy, defiant about both emotional and biological pleasure, need and softness. The album’s title started life as an in-joke before she realised it said everything she wanted to say. “Exploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song,” she explains. “It’s such a beautiful kind of sensitive vibration that takes so much work to keep afloat. I feel like the purpose of my life is to stay horny - it doesn’t even have to be about sex, but it’s feeling sensual and attracted to things that I enjoy, and not letting anything take over that.”

The Pianist Who Sets The Season: Luping Robyn Xu

Source: Frank Gazerro
November 11, 2025

In a region dense with conservatories, festivals, and storied churches, the artist who most quietly shapes what audiences hear is neither a headline-chasing soloist nor a transitory virtuoso. She is an architect. From the rostrum to the rehearsal room, from faculty studios to amphitheaters by the sea, Chinese pianist Luping Robyn Xu has become the musician institutions call when they need not just a performance, but a sound, a standard, and a season. Xu’s ascent has the arc of inevitability. ...
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Music Industry

The Institution-builder At The Keyboard: How Luping Robyn Xu Is Powering A New Era For New England’s Music Ecosystem

Source: Frank Gazerro
November 9, 2025

The Chinese pianist Luping Robyn Xu has rapidly become one of the defining musical forces in New England, a marquee artist whose piano, leadership, and pedagogy are shaping the future of multiple top-tier institutions. Since 2024, she has held a leading post at the North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) as Lead Pianist and Piano Pedagogue, a role the organization has already extended through 2028. In that capacity, Xu is central to NEMPAC’s concerts, musical productions, events, and ...
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Music Industry

Virtuoso Without Borders—Luping Robyn Xu’s Cross-genre Mastery

Source: Frank Gazerro
November 6, 2025

If one thread defines the career of Chinese pianist Luping Robyn Xu, it is a fearless versatility that traverses contemporary experiment, sacred reflection, chamber intimacy, and symphonic scale. On stage, on record, and within concert series that matter, Xu has delivered performances that connect tradition to today with uncommon authority—an artistry now set to make an even more significant imprint across the United States through 2028. As Lead Pianist for Ensemble Lyrae from 2025 to 2028, Xu is a core ...
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Performance / Tour

Robyn Hitchcock and Joe Boyd: Music/Spoken Word Tour

Source: JamBase
January 22, 2011

“LIVE & DIRECT FROM 1967" FEATURES SONGS AND STORIES FROM BOYD'S CAREER, INCLUDING SUCH ARTISTS AS PINK FLOYD, NICK DRAKE, BOB DYLAN AND JIMI HENDRIX Psychedelic troubadour Robyn Hitchcock has announced plans to team up with legendary producer Joe Boyd for an unprecedented series of live performances. “Robyn Hitchcock & Joe Boyd—Live & Direct From 1967" is a very special evening of songs and stories, melding Hitchcock's musical performances of songs produced by Boyd with Boyd's own reminiscences of his ...
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Performance / Tour

Sunday Soundtracking: The Drones, Robyn Hitchcock, More

Source: All About Jazz
February 15, 2009

Have you had enough of Valentine's Day? Is there too much chocolate and alcohol still stuck in your head? Let us help you clear out your romantic cobwebs.

From the cathartic noise of The Drones (pictured) to the crunchy hypnotics of Pontiak to the lonely, reissued machine music of Dntel and more, our new playlist takes lethal aim at your post-coital hangover. Don't kill the messenger.

Who: The Drones What: “The Minotaur" Where: Havilah, out Feb. ...
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