On Joe Boyd’s business card it probably says “Record/Film Producer,” but that’s a bloody simple way of putting it. In truth, Joe is a producer like the Vatican is a church. He started out touring ...

Egyptian Lover is a legend in certain circles but a mystery to most – an artist who was in deep with most of the West Coast hip-hop scene before the gangsta sound came along. Born Greg Broussard, ...

The New York Times called Steve Reich “our greatest living composer.” Experienced in the field of Western classical, Reich managed to transcend regional and cultural boundaries, incorporating ...

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It’s hard to overstate the influence of New York City composer Philip Glass. Along with Steve Reich, his minimalist compositions transformed the world of classical music and, eventually, popular music ...

Hanin Elias was born in Germany and spent part of her childhood in Syria. After her family moved to Berlin, she ran away from home and found her voice in the city’s then bustling punk and hardcore ...

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are one of the greatest songwriting and producing duos in music history. Meeting in the same ’70s Minneapolis music scene that produced Prince, the pair formed the band Flyte ...

For many young indie music fans making their way through the “alternative” section of their local record store in the mid-’90s, it was the music of Stereolab, and in particular the voice of chanteuse ...

Dennis Coffey is the guitarist behind hundreds of hits from the golden days of Detroit soul and funk. He was the man Norman Whitfield recruited to bring Motown into the psychedelic era, injecting ...

It’s one thing to master a genre, quite another to pioneer one. Terry Riley has succeeded at both. His long and winding career began as he explored what would become known as the Western classical ...

Daniel Wang makes and plays gleaming, disco-influenced music that draws inspiration from early house and techno. Born in California, he spent seven years of his childhood in Taiwan before heading to ...

No summary of New York City’s dance music history would be complete without Nicky Siano. As the owner and resident DJ at the Gallery, Nicky was electrified by a visit to the Loft and became hooked on ...