Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock: It Takes Two Last weekend the music world lost two influential members: Chicago house producer DJ Rashad passed on Saturday, while Sunday saw the death of hip-hop’s Rodney “Skip” Bryce, better known as DJ E-Z Rock and one-half of the duo behind the 1988 hit “It Takes Two.” EZ-Rock’s longtime friend and music collaborator Rob Base tells Rolling Stone, …
Chicago-raised, NYC-based composer (and professional soprano) Bora Yoon has the uncanny ability to blend recorded samples that depict everyday life—her mother’s voicemails, Bible pages, aluminum cans, loose change—with the dreamiest and holiest of instruments, including her own powerful voice that reaches high notes with ease and the equally enthralling organ at the Church of Ascension in NYC, where she works. The 2014 TED Fellow collected …
The sophomore release from Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl—together The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger—lays eccentric flourishes on top of swirling depths of kinetic psychedelic rock. Lennon’s airy vocals are perfectly bolstered by Kemp Muhl’s delirious charm. Released today, Midnight Sun is an appropriately titled album—at times otherworldly and eerie, with atmospheric heights reached by complex musicality and lyrical storytelling—calling to mind the …
