Faetooth’s Ari May, Jenna Garcia, and Rah Kanan reflect on the three-year writing process behind ‘Labyrinthine’, a bold album that pushes doom metal toward greater abstraction without sacrificing ethereality.

Just intonation brought together two generations of experimental musicians for ‘Extended Field,’ an album that nimbly negotiates Horse Lords’ mathematical expansiveness and Arnold Dreyblatt’s tightly controlled harmonic universe.

The BAFTA-winning composer traces his parents’ displacement from Colombia and Cuba across two albums, ‘Manu’ and ‘La Marea’, blending string orchestras with techno’s rhythmic complexity and the “magical realism” of Latin American folk traditions.

The cellist and composer discusses her album ‘Various Small Whistles and a Song,’ a collection of field recordings that transform voting lines, train stations, and strangers’ whistles into intimate sonic portraits of daily life.

The innovative composer discusses ‘Broadsides,’ an electroacoustic project set in the American South that treats traditional instruments as loaded cultural objects while pushing back against regional homogenization.

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Cultural anthropologist Graham St. John discusses his biography of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna, exploring DMT, rave culture, and the archaic revival.

Guitarist Nels Cline discusses Trio of Bloom with Craig Taborn and Marcus Gilmore, creative insecurity, Wilco, and navigating jazz and rock worlds.

Blind jazz pianist Marcus Roberts on solving latency for remote collaboration, AI ethics, accessibility tech, and authentic expression in music.