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Adrian Spinelli December 17, 2020Updated: December 17, 2020, 6:32 pm Seu Jorge performs onstage during the 2019 Cruilla Festival at Parc del Forum in Barcelona. Photo: Jordi Vidal, Getty Images This week’s “Listen” column looks back at this year’s best music. Check in next week for The Chronicle’s best Bay Area albums of 2020.  Seu Jorge & Rogé, “Night Dreamer Direct-to-Disc Sessions” (Night Dreamer) After growing up in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Seu Jorge rose to prominence with roles in the films “City of God” and “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou” (...

Jazz re:freshed is back and it is going online. The team at Jazz re:freshed have been flying the flag for jazz-centric creativity in London and beyond for over a decade now, with their residency at West London's Mau Mau Bar providing an incredible platform for new artists. Having worked with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Moses Boyd, and Ezra Collective in the past, Jazz re:freshed have proved their worth as one of the country's foremost incubators for fresh sounds. Well, it's back in 2021, hosting a weekly live performance shindig that will be broadcast live on YouTube and Fac...

15 Great Jazz Albums of 2020 Jazz may not have the mainstream cultural dominance that it once did, but it remains a thriving, multi-faceted form of music that continues to have so much more to say. Jazz informs so much of the rap and electronic music that does have mainstream cultural dominance today, and it's long popped up in indie rock, metal, punk, and other styles of popular music too. Though jazz never went away, the past few years have seen a serious jazz renaissance that continues to grow, branch out into new innovative territory, and attract new listeners. The world of jazz is so va...

The Filipino-born, London-raised songwriter Beatrice Laus is just 20, and she grabs at the pre-Britpop signifiers of Nineties indie rock – fuzzy guitar, soft, blurred vocals and the occasional leap into messy volume – with the fervency of someone for whom the sound is still exhilaratingly new on her debut album. On Worth It, the mix of energetic riffing and her sweet, fragile singing voice recall key women in early Nineties alternative music such as Tanya Donnelly of Belly, or occasional Lemonhead Juliana Hatfield. Those who know her from her early acoustic sketch Coffee will notice a ret...

Published: 4:03 PM December 8, 2020    Updated: 6:31 AM December 10, 2020 We Out Here festival to bring ‘brightest talent’ in 2021 return to Cambridgeshire. Picture: JAMIE CRUMPTON - Credit: Archant We Out Here festival will return to the Cambridgeshire countryside in August 2021. We Out Here festival to bring ‘brightest talent’ in 2021 return to Cambridgeshire. Picture: JAMIE CRUMPTON - Credit: Archant Organisers have announced a bumper first-wave line up that features some of the UK’s brightest talent to make up an eclectic musical landscape that many have missed this year. It ...