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Immanuel Wilkins

Big Ears 2025 Wadada Leo Smith's Radio Light and Orange Wave Electric -- Photo by Andy Feliu

Big Ears Festival 2025 Reminds Us to Open Ourselves to Wild and Wonderful Sounds

During the weekend of Big Ears, music is everywhere in Knoxville, Tennessee. Market Square, a centra...
Author
Vanessa Ague
William Brittelle -- Photo by David A. Gray

On William Brittelle’s “Alive in the Electric Snow Dream,” Nostalgia Meets Sci-Fi Dystopia

There are no overt samples or references to other works in William Brittelle’s Alive in the Electric...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Matana Roberts -- Photo by Anna Niedermeier

In New Album, Matana Roberts Explores Black Ancestry through Probing Narrative Art

Matana Roberts’ jubilantly experimental new album Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden deftly weave...
Author
A. Kori Hill
Joel Ross--Photo courtesy of the artist

Joel Ross Celebrates “The Parable of the Poet” Release at The Jazz Gallery

From the very first note dropped by Joel Ross’ mallet at The Jazz Gallery on May 14, 2022, the audie...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
Kalia Vandever--Photo by D.M. Stith

Kalia Vandever on the Precipice of “Regrowth” and Self-Actualization

The process of becoming is just as much about the losses as it is about the wins and the neutrality...
Author
Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Gina Izzo ladyybirdd

Video Premiere: Gina Izzo performs “into what is wanted” from “ladyybirdd”

“Stay until you lose the urge to leave.” This was the only musical instruction that flut...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Erika Dohi performs Particle Of...

Video Premiere: Erika Dohi Performs “Particle Of…” by Andy Akiho

Alter egos in blue and pink wigs, layered polyrhythms, and the muted plunks, gear-like clicks, and w...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Immanuel Wilkins in BLUES BLOOD | BLACK FUTURE--Photo by Wolf Daniel, courtesy of Roulette Intermedium

BLUES BLOOD | BLACK FUTURE: Radical Transformation through Repetition

BLUES BLOOD | BLACK FUTURE begins and ends with cooking. Sekai Abeni–one of four lyricists of the Ro...
Author
A. Kori Hill

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