Miles Davis

Ears for fears: The Flaming Lips’ liberation through Terror

The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd discuss The Terror of what to do after trying everything.

Four band-endorsed boozes

For some, plastering a band name on a bottle of booze is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. Others, like…

MP3 Premiere: The Greyboy Allstars getting funky, assertive on “Bitch Inside Me”

Featuring former Miles Davis and Fishbone collaborator John Bigham, this new jam from The Greyboy Allstars plays out as a…

Q&A: Wild Belle on familial dynamics, schmoozing, and using loss as inspiration

Though eight years apart in age, siblings Natalie and Elliot Bergman have a long musical history, and their debut as…

Morrow vs. Hajduch: Dave Douglas’ Orange Afternoons

Scott Morrow is ALARM’s music editor. Patrick Hajduch is a very important lawyer. Each week they debate the merits of…

Guest Spot: Dosh on the alchemy of instrumental music

Dosh: Tommy (Anticon, 4/13/10) Dosh: "Subtractions" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/dosh-subtractions.mp3|titles=Dosh: "Subtractions"] Percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Martin Dosh, better known as simply Dosh, is known both…

Soul Revival: Breathing New Life into Lost Albums

Record labels such as Stones Throw and Ubiquity offer new compilation and re-issue albums of forgotten DIY funk and soul…

Morrow vs. Hajduch: Chicago Odense Ensemble

Scott Morrow is ALARM’s music editor. Patrick Hajduch is a very important lawyer. Each week they debate the merits of…

Morrow vs. Hajduch: Mikrokolektyw’s Revisit

Scott Morrow is ALARM’s music editor. Patrick Hajduch is a very important lawyer. Each week they debate the merits of…

Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics: Divergent East/West Skill Sets

Dr. Lloyd Miller -- an ethnomusicologist, master of more than 100 instruments, and pioneer of Persian-infused jazz -- has joined…

Pre-order the cross-continental, improvised jazz of the Chicago Odense Ensemble

In the winter of 2008, Danish musicians Jonas Munk and Jakob Skøtt hunkered down in a Chicago studio with locals…

Q&A: Hum Discusses Chicago Reunion, Lyrical Intentions, and Artistic Integrity

On 12/31/00, dropped-D alt-rockers Hum played their final show in Chicago, appearing with the Flaming Lips at the Metro.  Now,…