Carlos Maria Trindade is a musician and producer who found his voice in the tumultuous aftermath of Portugal’s revolution in 1974. As part of bands such as Corpo Diplomático, Heróis Do Mar and ...

In this lecture from the 2006 Red Bull Music Academy, former Jurassic 5 DJ Cut Chemist talks about his friendship with rapper Hymnal and their memories of the early Los Angeles rap scene. From ...

In 2013, Red Bull Music Academy came to New York and set up shop in Chelsea. Over several floors, architect Jeffrey Inaba designed a series of open spaces that encouraged happy accidents. The type of ...

Where do you start talking about Don Letts? In the late 1970s he was the link between the burgeoning punk and reggae scenes, playing heavy dub records to members of bands such as The Clash, The Sex ...

Erykah Badu is a legend and perhaps the most capricious artist in modern soul. Hailed the queen of neo-soul on her arrival in 1997, with the multiplatinum Baduizm, she shrugged off the apparent demise ...

From a bunker in Nürensdorf, on the outskirts of Zürich, to the main stage of Wacken Open Air festival, Thomas Gabriel Fischer, AKA Tom Warrior, has lived through the highs and lows of heavy metal.

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In 2014, Red Bull Music Academy came to Tokyo, Japan. To hold an Academy in this country – the birthplace of so much influential music-making technology, and so many inspiring evocations of what the ...

On Joe Boyd’s business card it probably says “Record/Film Producer,” but that’s a bloody simple way of putting it. In truth, Joe is a producer like the Vatican is a church. He started out touring ...

It’s a wonder there aren’t statues in honor of Melvin van Peebles. He is a true pioneer in an extraordinary array of fields – the first black movie director of the modern age, one of the first people ...

The line between mainstream and underground is merely a pinstripe for Otomo Yoshihide, a composer and multi-instrumentalist with over 100 releases under his belt. Otomo became known to the world in ...