Laufey is a rising star in the jazz-pop world. Her music is calm and sweet, often accompanied by soft guitar or piano. She writes songs about love, growing up, and the feeling of being alone. She ...

Even though he’s partial to hideous noise, free jazz is mostly unknown to the Guardian’s pop critic. A new guidebook from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore may change his mind In the 1980s, Sonic Youth’s ...

Whenever I’m asked to provide a “fun fact” about myself, I usually say that I worked as a smooth-jazz radio announcer back in college. It wasn’t the kind of unsuitable, faintly ironic part-time job ...