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2024 NYC Winter Jazzfest Announces Final Lineup For 20th Anniversary Season
by A.A. Cristi - January 05, 2024 NYC Winter Jazzfest has announced the complete list of artists to be featured at the 20th annual NYC Winter Jazzfest! Please mark your calendars for January 10-18, 2024.... 
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Shares Solo Single 'Airavata'
by Michael Major - August 24, 2023 Composed, produced, and arranged by Miguel, who plays electric guitar (reversed) and acoustic violin/viola, with Gabe Noel and Peter Jacobson joining on acoustic bass and cello respectively, “Airavata” (eye-raw-VAH-tah) is named after the white elephant who carries the deity Indra, also called ‘abhr... 
Salami Rose Joe Louis Shares 'Sugar Coating' From 'Akousmatikous' Album
by Michael Major - May 04, 2023 New album Akousmatikous (Ah-coooz-mat-e-koi) features collaborations with Brijean (Ghostly International) and Soccer96 (a project from The Comet is Coming’s Danalogue and Betamax) plus Miguel Atwood Ferguson, Juuwah, Sergio Machado Plim, Jason Lindner, Dakim, and Dan Nicholls.... 
Salami Rose Joe Louis Announces New LP & Taps Soccer96 and Brijean for Lead Singles
by Michael Major - March 22, 2023 The title track “Akousmatikous (feat. Soccer96)” is blessed with a stunning animated video directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Carlos López Estrada (who’s directed videos for Billie Eilish, Katy Perry, Thundercat). It arrives alongside “Propaganda,” a danceable partnership with SF-based Br... 
Teebs Enlists Panda Bear for 'Did It Again'
by Michael Major - September 26, 2022 An awe-inspiring output over the past nine years includes two full-length albums and one mini-album on Brainfeeder, multiple split albums and collaborative EPs with the likes of Daedelus and Jeremiah Jae, and two limited run CDs on My Hollow Drum. He is also one half of the Sons of Morning with fell... 
Flying Lotus Releases New Double Single 'The Room'/ 'You Don't Know' feat. Devin Tracy
by Michael Major - June 16, 2022 These two new vocal tracks feature emerging Los Angeles-based soul vocalist Devin Tracy, who Flying Lotus discovered at a session. The kinship was immediate, resulting in not one but two new tracks, one of which reworks a track from Netflix’s YASUKE, which FlyLo soundtracked and executive produced.... 
Metro Art Presents 'Play On!' Week
by Sarah Jae Leiber - July 14, 2021 The series kicks off July 19 with pianist and producer Jamael Dean, a jazz prodigy who has collaborated and performed with artists like Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Niño... 
LISTEN: Teebs Debut 'Ardour' Tenth Anniversary Edition
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 12, 2020 On October 11, 2010, Brainfeeder released the debut album by a 23-year-old ex-skater, painter and music producer from Chino Hills called Teebs (real name Mtendere Mandowa).... 
SummerStage Anywhere Presents Charlie Parker's 100th Birthday Celebration
by Sarah Jae Leiber - August 26, 2020 Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is proud to present special programming on Saturday, August 29, 2020 in celebration of jazz icon Charlie Parker's 100th birthday.... 
SummerStage Anywhere Presents Upcoming Jazz Programming
by Kaitlin Milligan - July 24, 2020 Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is proud to present a variety of workshops, Q&As and performances highlighting incredible Jazz artists through their SummerStage Anywhere Digital Series. ... 
TEEBS Shares New Visuals for 'ATOMS SONG' ft. Thomas Stankiewicz, Announces Worldwide Tour Dates
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 05, 2020 Today, Teebs shares brand new visuals for “Atoms Song (feat. Thomas Stankiewicz)”, the latest single from last year's Anicca, out via Brainfeeder.... 
PBDY Releases 'Tears or Rain' Music Video ft. Samuel T. Herring
by Abigail Charpentier - October 30, 2019 Today the LA-based DJ/producer PBDY (pronounced Peabody) releases “Tears or Rain”, his brilliant new single featuring the vocals of Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring (whose previous collaborations include BADBADNOTGOOD, Madlib, and Clams Casino). Watch the accompanying video directed by Dieg... 
PBDY Shares All New Double Single
by Tori Hartshorn - August 07, 2019 Today, PBDY (pronounced Peabody) releases a brand new single 'Eucalyptus & Lavender / So Help Me (DOG)' via Brainfeeder, as the LA-based producer and DJ prepares to head out on a 33 date tour across North America with the label's founding father Flying Lotus. The track features Jeff Parker (of pione... 
Te'Amir To Release ABYSSINIA
by Tori Hartshorn - December 11, 2018 Acclaimed Los Angeles drummer and producer Te'Amir [pronounced Taah-mer] ties together his 2018 two-part EP series of beat driven and soulful explorations Abyssinia & Abyssinia Rise, together inspired by his Ethiopian heritage, for release as one vinyl full-length LP, January 25 on Tru Thoughts. Th... 
Red Bull Music Presents 'Makaya McCraven's Universal Beings' This December
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 14, 2018 Red Bull Music Presents' inaugural New York show will celebrate the release of Makaya McCraven's much-anticipated 2018 album, Universal Beings. The album is composed of recordings the accomplished jazz composer created during intimate sessions in New York, London, Chicago and Los Angeles with old fr... 
Thundercat Releases Ross From Friends Remix of 'Friend Zone'
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 14, 2018 'Brainfeeder X'- a 36 track album that celebrates 10 years of fearless output by the iconic record label - is released this Friday, November 16th. Amongst 22 new tracks featured on the compilation is a stunning remix of the Thundercat song 'Friend Zone' by label mate Ross from Friends.... 
Red Bull Music Festival Chicago Kicks Off Saturday with Nas, Pusha T, and More
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 01, 2018 Red Bull Music will launch the latest installment of their critically acclaimed international music series Red Bull Music Festival this Saturday, November 3rd in Chicago with Opening Night at Wintrust Arena. Chicago is the home to some of hip hop's most cutting edge artists and the event series will... 
RBMF Chicago Announces Line-Up
by Tori Hartshorn - September 18, 2018 Red Bull Music will launch the latest installment of their critically acclaimed international music series in Chicago this November, bringing with it a month-long slate of expertly curated original programming spanning the city's diverse music genres. Red Bull Music Festival Chicago will explore and... 
Brandon Coleman Releases Brainfeeder Debut RESISTANCE
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 17, 2018 Brainfeeder is proud to release Resistance - a 2018 Funk odyssey by keyboard maestro, vocalist, composer, producer, arranger and astraltraveller Brandon Coleman. A regular fixture in the Kamasi Washington band, wylin' out on the keys or wielding his keytar, he is introduced onstage at gigs as “Profe... 
Questlove Announces '4U: A Symphonic Celebration of Prince'
by Kaitlin Milligan - September 10, 2018 As he curates the set list and arrangements of 4U: A Symphonic Celebration of Prince, acclaimed drummer and creative Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson enlists the talents of GRAMMY® Award winner Brent Fischer—a member of the original arranger team behind Prince—to arrange selected music titles into an orch... 
Brandon Coleman Shares New Track ALL AROUND THE WORLD, Lifted From His Forthcoming Funk Odyssey RESISTANCE
by Tori Hartshorn - August 30, 2018 Brandon Coleman has unveiled a video for new track “All Around The World” lifted from his forthcoming funk odyssey Resistance, released September 14th via Brainfeeder. With his inimitable vocoded vocal front and centre, reclining on a sleek, instantly danceable uptempo jam, it is abundantly clear wh... 
Brandon Coleman Announces New Album Out September 14 on Brainfeeder
by Macon Prickett - July 19, 2018 Brainfeeder is proud to present Resistance - a 2018 Funk odyssey by keyboard maestro, vocalist, composer, producer, arranger and astral traveller Brandon Coleman. A regular fixture in the Kamasi Washington band, wylin' out on the keys or wielding his keytar, he is introduced onstage at gigs as “Prof... 
Diana Purim & Eyedentity Announce New Album MANY BODIES, ONE MIND Out May 18
by Macon Prickett - April 20, 2018 Many Bodies, One Mind, is the third studio album from the multi-talented LA based Diana Purim & Eyedentity.... 
Diana Purim & Eyedentity To Release Third Studio Album MANY BODIES, ONE MIND
by Macon Prickett - April 02, 2018 Many Bodies, One Mind, is the third studio album from the multi-talented LA based Diana Purim & Eyedentity.... 
Watch Thundercat Perform on LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT
by Caryn Robbins - November 01, 2017 Thundercat spent Halloween with a few of his friends Stephen Colbert, Jon Batiste and Stay Human. The Grammy-winning bassist performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, sitting in with the Batiste and Stay Human.... |
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