Jon Hassell Dies at 84
The inventor of the “Fourth World” musical aesthetic has passed away of natural causes
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The inventor of the “Fourth World” musical aesthetic has passed away of natural causes
As 2020 draws to a close, we reflect on 10 top PBS feature albums that helped us survive this most challenging of years. Before doing this, however, we'd like to reminisce on PBS' Radio Festival fundraiser, our annual two-week campaign that helps keep PBS going as an independent, free-to-air radio station. In 2020, we ran Radio Festival under the banner, ‘You Can’t Stop The Music’. We chose to promote this message of resilience and hope for obvious reasons. Though nothing was obvious about 2020. It was a year characterised by an unsettling murkiness that we nonetheless had to s...
NEW IN 2020 Alex Dowling – Reality Rounds – Astonishing choral electronics using autotune and other tricks Nicolas Jaar – Cenizas – Smoky late night club vibes Rhucle – Middle/Nostalgia – More ambient bliss 75 Dollar Bill – Live At Tubby’s/Live At Cafe Oto/Live At Roulette – Tour de force band pulls out all the stops on their desert blues jams United Bible Studies – Roses In The Voltage I-IV – Witchy weirdness and folky tunage Horse Lords – The Common Task – Basically really loud math rock in just intonation Powers/Rolin Duo -S/T LP – Dulcimer and 12-string ftw Sau...