Ongaku Overdrive — the popular local series of hybrid events combining anime, videogames and music — are returning to live action next week with a big event at the Abbey. Headlining the night is Bit ...

Gamer-music collision Ongaku Overdrive is set to celebrate their 10th anniversary at the end of the month with a night of live music and videogaming. The evening promises live music, modern and retro ...

LEAMINGTON SPA, UK Blitz 1UP, an initiative run by UK developer Blitz Games Studios, has signed up music game Ongaku – a the tenth game in its ever-expanding catalogue. Developed by SmashMouth Games, ...

As a distinct musical category, kankyō ongaku gained traction after Eno’s Music For Airports album reached Japan in 1977. Around the same time, a 1975 exhibition featuring the music of Erik Satie ...

Devendra Banhart, yippy-voiced king of the early-’00s freak-folk revival, is coming back with a new album. Banhart has just announced the impending LP Ma, the follow-up to 2016’s Ape In Pink Marble.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Erik Satie premiered what he called “Furniture Music”, he was shocked at his audience’s attentiveness, and ...

Without question, we live in a reissue age. From eccentric soul to spiritual jazz and Italian library, Afrobeat, abstract minimalism and far beyond, few rocks have been left unturned in music's vast ...

Visible Cloaks’ Spencer Doran curates an appealingly cohesive compilation of Japanese ambient music that, while decades old, feels uncannily suited to contemporary listening habits. It’s remarkable ...

One of the big complaints of the Spotify era is that music is everywhere, and not in a good way. We all live against an endless wallpaper backdrop of music; there’s a nagging undercoat of sound that ...