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John Andrew Fredrick: The Black Watch Abides
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines on John Andrew Fredrick of The Black Watch.After thirty-seven years of making indie rock, the band's latest album, For All the World (Atom, 2025), boasts an energy and vitality that surprises even John. John's a great guest: His creative process remains rooted in uncertainty, he reads more about music than ...
Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing The Air With Music And Voices
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines on saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock. Ingrid's just released Purposing The Air (Pyroclastic Records, 2025), a double album that sets 60 brief poems by Erica Hunt to music through four different vocal-instrumental duos. It's an ambitious project that transforms Hunt's emotionally sharp koans into what Ingrid calls “a library of ...
Jazz-con Partners With All About Jazz To Present The Jazz Forward Awards At The Inaugural Jazz-con: 2025!
Jazz-Con, the new global music-business conference dedicated to the future of jazz, announced today that it will partner with All About Jazz—the premier online jazz resource since 1995—to present the Jazz Forward Awards during the inaugural Jazz-Con 2025 (September 15-16, virtual). Founded by Michael Ricci, All About Jazz has spent three decades championing the music, expanding ...
Kinan Azmeh: Live In Berlin, Rooted In Damascus
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines on clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh.Earlier this year, Kinan released Live in Berlin (Dreyer Gaido, 2025), his fourteenth album with his CityBand quartet. The album captures music he wrote during Syria's 2011 uprising--pieces that carry the weight of watching your homeland torn apart from thousands of miles away. Born in ...
Stefan Hegerat's Bet Against Algorithmic Music
by Lawrence Peryer
Stefan Hegerat reached his breaking point with Spotify. Last year, the Toronto drummer and composer made a decision that's becoming more common among independent musicians: he began the process of removing his music from the streaming giant. “I recently read Liz Pelly's book about the evolution of Spotify and that really sealed the deal ...
Tal Yahalom: A Guitarist's Mirror Image Of Tradition
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On guitarist and composer Tal Yahalom. Tal has built a reputation in New York City's creative music scene for weaving post-bop, classical, and South American influences into a unique sound all his own. On his latest album, Mirror Image (Adhyâropa Records, 2025), Tal brings together a chamber quintet that puts ...
Claire Cope: Orchestrating Stories Of Brave Women
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On British composer Claire Cope.Claire crafts music that combines the freedom of jazz with the precision of classical music, drawing inspiration from women whose stories are often overlooked in history books.Claire's new album Every Journey (Adhyâropa Records, 2025), dropped in March to coincide with International Women's Day. On ...
Mike Scott Of The Waterboys: The Ballad Of Dennis Hopper
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On founder of The Waterboys, Mike Scott. In 2014, Mike stumbled upon Dennis Hopper's photography in a London gallery and fell into a rabbit hole that led to Life, Death and Dennis Hopper (Sun Records, 2014), a bold concept album that tells the story of the Easy Rider star from ...
Craig Mod: Things Become Things That Last
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On Craig Mod, a writer, photographer, and walker. Criag's latest book, Things Become Other Things (Random House, 2025), is a walking memoir that traces his 300-mile journey along ancient pilgrimage paths in rural Japan. The book blends sharp prose with striking photography, capturing conversations with aging fishermen, inn owners, and ...
Tamiko Thiel: Part 2 - Art At Technology's Edge
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight again shines on media artist Tamiko Thiel, in the second of a two-part conversation. In the first talk, we explored Tamiko's journey from designing the world's first AI supercomputer in the eighties to becoming a pioneering media artist. Today, we dive deeper into her groundbreaking work in virtual reality and other ...
