Tag: Sun Ra

The Best Reissues and Box Sets of 2020
12 records we were pleased to see renewed and revamped.

SPELLLING Walks Us Through Her Sci-Fi Influences for “Mazy Fly”
Bay Area experimentalist Tia Cabral explains how Kubrick, Sun Ra, and “Frankenstein” inspired the unique aesthetic for her sophomore LP.

PLAYLIST: Let Nathan Bowles Take You on a Performative Peregrination
The journeyman instrumentalist who’s played with Steve Gunn and The Black Twig Pickers shares the songs that influenced his new album, “Whole & Cloven.”

LIVE, IN PHOTOS: Pitchfork Music Festival (7/15–17/2016)
Sufjan Stevens, Savages, Blood Orange, and more keep it 100 at Union Park.

Lift Off: Pitchfork Fest Gets Jazzy and Transcendent
Sun Ra’s Arkestra formed the spiritual center of the eleventh edition of the Chicago music festival.