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Ambrose Akinmusire review – thrillingly high-end level fun

2182 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott’s, LondonThe young American trumpeter led a set of scalding jazz improv that veered between lyrical delicacy and fierce dramaThere was a wilder edginess to Ambrose Akinmusire’s opening set at Ronnie Scott’s than form... more info

Cold Specks – “Fool’s Paradise”

2462 days ago
StereogumCold Specks is Ladan Hussein, a Toronto musician who makes heavy, intense art-soul. Back in 2014, she impressed us with Neuroplasticity , an album that included a few collaborations with Swans frontman Michael Gira. And now she's announced that she'... more info

Playlist: The Playlist: A Different Side of Chuck Berry and a New Sound for Coldplay

2500 days ago
New York TimesHear 10 new songs selected by our pop critics from Algiers, Sad13, Cold Specks and more. more info

Cold Specks – “A Season Of Doubt” Video

3194 days ago
StereogumLast year Cold Specks (aka Al Spx) put out another phenomenal doom-soul record called Neuroplasticity. Spx’s voice is a scratchy, brilliant thing that fits right alongside soul legends, but if you’re wondering how the doom element factors into th... more info

Polaris 2015 Long List revealed (Drake, New Pornographers, DFA1979, Caribou, Alvvays, White Lung, Viet Cong, more)

3231 days ago
Brooklyn VeganThe long list for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, Canada's annual award for a great album, has been announced. It includes Drake, The New Pornographers, Death From Above 1979, Caribou, Alvvays, White Lung, Viet Cong, METZ, Cold Specks, Buffy... more info

Sufjan Stevens shares another new song; Cold Specks, Naomi Shelton and Moses Sumney opening select tour dates

3328 days ago
Brooklyn VeganSufjan Stevens already revealed "No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross" off his bare-bones new album, Carrie & Lowell (due 3/31 via Asthmatic Kitty), and now he's put out another, "Should Have Known Better." Listen below. He'll be... more info

Cold Specks surveys the ages during confident Echo set

3439 days ago
L.A. Times - News more info

Cold Specks surveys the ages during confident Echo set

3439 days ago
L.A. Times - EntertainmentAfter she'd worked her microphone for the duration of an assured, memorable set at the Echo in Echo Park, the artist known as Cold Specks ditched the amplifier altogether for the final stanza of her encore.  more info

What's going on Friday? (Menzingers, Grifters, Running, Pup, Peter Hook, BEMF, Cold Specks, Weedeater & more)

3453 days ago
Brooklyn VeganThe Menzingers in Chicago in June (more by Jeff Ryan) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival The multi-venue BEMF continues tonight with Booka Shade... more info

Cold Specks releasing new LP featuring Michael Gira, playing Afropunk Fest this weekend, touring this fall (dates, LP stream)

3530 days ago
Brooklyn Veganby Robb Sperry-Fromm Cold Specks at Webster Hall in 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Canadian goth-inflected soul songwriter Cold Specks, who is playing AfroPunk this weekend in Brooklyn, will release Neuroplasticity on August 25, including two songs... more info

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