Author: Helena Lynch

I admit without shame: I have a weakness for debuts. There is always a unique, barely perceptible aroma of adventurism and slight jitters in them, when an artist first steps up to the footlights without the protective armor of past achievements and platinum statuses. It is an exciting moment of absolute sincerity, when the stakes…

“Every debut holds within itself the grace of incompleteness: it is the moment when the artist first opens the door to his workshop but has not yet turned on the overhead light,” Walter Benjamin once remarked. Anthony Do, performing under the pseudonym Dotom, is a graduate of the prestigious Roc Nation school of music, majoring…

“Space is not that far away. It’s only an hour’s drive if your car can go straight up,” British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle once joked. But if we set aside earthly mechanics, music, in my view, has handled this route faster than any shuttle. It is capable of traversing light-years in a fraction of a second,…

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, there will be peace,” Jimi Hendrix once said, reminding us that music knows how to negotiate where diplomats simply throw up their hands. In a world that has grown quite tired of the roar of news and endless stress, silence has turned into a luxury,…