Wednesday marked what would have been Andy Warhol’s 86th birthday. In addition to his own masterpieces, the Pop Art legend had a hand in creating some of the music industry’s most celebrated album covers—like The Velvet Underground’s Nico, The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers, Aretha Franklin’s Aretha and countless more. Along the way he picked up many admirers, including David Bowie, who dedicated a song to …
While traveling from Cape Town to north of Pretoria to perform at the Oppikoppi Festival as part of the Red Bull Studios Live program, South African duo Christian Tiger School took a break to select this week’s #PrivateJam. The psychedelic hip-hop producers first chose Fischerspooner’s “Just Let Go” and then went on to add “All We Are” before telling us they admire the album in …
The classically trained, Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Imogen Heap is best known for her 1998 album iMegaphone or early oughts songs like “Hide and Seek,” but in recent years she’s become more synonymous with her interest in modern technology. A prime example is her Mi.Mu gloves, which create sounds through gestures. This year London’s Roundhouse tapped Heap as curator of Reverb 2014, for which she’s selected “contemporary …
