Allen Toussaint: Southern Nights

New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint passed away at the age of 77 today, shortly after performing on stage in Madrid. The songs (from “Get Out of My Life, Woman” to “Lady Marmalade”) Toussaint wrote and/or produced often outshone the jazz pianist himself, as he worked with artists like Lee Dorsey and the Meters, The Pointer Sisters, Etta James, Paul McCartney and more. Covers were even …

Yoko Ono: Forgive Me My Love (Death Cab for Cutie Remix)

As a sequel to Yoko Ono’s 2007 album Yes, I’m a Witch, the cleverly named Yes, I’m a Witch Too will feature musicians like tUnE-yArDs, Miike Snow, Cibo Matto and Portugal. The Man remixing and covering her back catalog. The first track to be revealed and streamed: Death Cab for Cutie transforms Ono’s pretty and poppy song “Forgive Me My Love,” recorded in 1983, into …

Port St. Willow: Motion

Brooklyn-based Nicholas Principe returns as Port St Willow for his third album, Syncope, creating atmospheres in what feels like a much larger space (and with more spatial detail) than his previous. Principe’s falsetto travels through a drone tunnel in the six-minute track “Motion,” knocking on percussive doors along the way to finding the exit. Keep an ear out for the impeccably three-dimensional sounds around you, …