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Young the Giant's Victory Lap
The new year was still fresh when we landed on a Zoom call with Young the Giant’s enigmatic frontman Sameer Gadhia and charming multi-instrumentalist Eric ... -
Opera For All
Music Connection has been in publication since 1977, and in that time, we’ve made a concerted effort to cover all musical genres and make everyone ... -
PINKPANTHERESS: THINK PINK
After conquering TikTok, U.K. electro princess PINKPANTHERESS pounces onto the award circuit—and the mainstream pop charts PinkPantheress is on top of the world—specifically the world ... -
30 Years of JazzReach: Living The Legacy
Exposed to music at the highest level from an early age, with his grandfather serving as accompanist to cellist Gregor Piatigorski (and later the Dean ... -
Sleaford Mods and The Demise of Planet X
British duo Sleaford Mods are an outlier on the contemporary music landscape. They occupy a space where music meets beat poetry, where art meets spoken ... -
A&R Roundtable 2026
Musicians create the sounds we love, shaping their artistic visions in the studio and bringing songs to life on stage in living color. While the ... -
Leon Thomas: Pholks Have Soul
What is soul? Everyone from Parliament Funkadelic and Donny Hathaway to Aretha Franklin and the recently departed D’Angelo has defined and put their distinct stamp ... -
Vince Gill: Five Decades Deep
Smiling in front of a few thousand fans at the Fox Theatre in Detroit during the summer, Vince Gill promised to tell some stories and ... -
Big Buskin' With Ink
GRAMMY-nominated songwriter, producer, and general badass Ink has had the sort of last few years that most artists dream of. She worked on Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE album (co-writing “ALIEN SUPERSTAR,” ... -
MARINA SHINES BRIGHTER THAN EVER
On her sixth studio album, Princess of Power, the multi-faceted pop sensation reclaims her energy, her sexuality, and her music. The world may not be ... -
Video Game Composers Roundtable 2025
Financial analysts expect the video game industry to pull in more than $522 billionworldwide this year alone, and developers are increasingly interested in creating lusher ... -
John Carpenter: Master of Macabre Melody
Think John Carpenter, and all manner of creepy, skin-crawling images flood the brain: A knife-wielding Michael Myers in the shadows (Halloween), heads slowly falling to ... -
Carla Patullo / Free To Feel
Following 2024’s GRAMMY win for (self-produced and self-released) debut solo project So She Howls, Carla Patullo returns with Nomadica, a stunning collection of sound reuniting ... -
Linkin Park: Back From Zero
Berlin’s Olympiastadion is a brutalist marvel—concrete and colossal, built for spectacle. It’s hosted World Cups, political pageantry, rock gods, and operatic breakdowns. But on June ... -
Sooper Records
Founded in 2016 by artists NNAMDÏ, Sen Morimoto, and Glenn Curran—who met as fellow forward-thinking members of Chicago’s perennially underrated music community—Sooper Records is an ... -
Dark Devotion: Cleopatra Records and Justin Warfield are Out to Keep Goth Sounds Alive for ...
When the groovy go-go ghoul-dance to “Goo Goo Muck” by The Cramps in Tim Burton’s Wednesday went viral, it wasn’t just another mindless TikTok trend. ... -
Kash Doll: The Queen of Motor City Hip-Hop
The phone rang twice before she picked up, and even through the digital static, Kash Doll's voice carried weight. There's something about Detroit voices; they ... -
Singers Sound Off 2025
Music Connection returns with its highly anticipated annual feature, shining a spotlight on rising stars and legendary icons from across the musical spectrum. This year’s ... -
There Will Be Yungblud
"The last time I was here, I knocked my teeth out on this stage and it was crazy. I was 19, just been signed to ... -
Electronic Music Roundtable 2025
The future, as they say, is now! The era of electronic artists being derided as “not real musicians” by those who prefer traditional instruments are ...
