A surprise live album from beloved LA singer Kelela is just what we needed. It’s been over a decade since LA-based singer Kelela released her foundational debut EP […]
Live Performance
From Bill Laswell to Mickey Hart to John McLaughlin, the percussion master changed the conversation. Zakir Hussain, who died on Sunday, redefined what it meant to be a […]
Watch Chicago legend Terry Callier perform classics including “What Color is Love” and “Dancing Girl.” An eternal favorite here at In Sheep’s Clothing HQ, Terry Callier aka “Jazz’s […]
Daniel Aged’s fretless bass improvisations live at LIKE SOUND in Minato City, Tokyo. Earlier this year, we released bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Daniel Aged’s 2020 EP Bass Improvisations […]
About 18 months before sitting down at a famously subpar Steinway in Cologne, Germany for his lauded solo album The Köln Concert, Keith Jarrett embarked on his second […]
Robert Wyatt performs in a knitted mask on French television. One of the more underrated progressive rock groups from the ’70s Canterbury Scene, Matching Mole was a short-lived […]
This quiet storm classic is perfect for an eclipse afternoon. The first time we met Sade, she was skeptically casting her eye at a man. As if glaring […]
British pianist/keyboardist Greg Foat has been releasing records at a steady clip since 2011, when he and his Greg Foat Group connected with UK label Jazzman Records for […]
In the mid-1970s, Palo Alto and vicinity was becoming a home computing hub. In Cupertino, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had partnered to begin building the first Apple […]
The Birmingham, England band led by Trish Keenan left an indelible mark on the post-shoegaze sound of the ’90s and ’00s. It’s a Tuesday and we woke up […]
Epic concerts and excerpts that illustrate why the Boredoms’ mesmerizing tribal explorations are unlike anything else on the planet. We’ve celebrated the Boredoms before, and recently added DJ […]
One of the greatest dancehall videos on YouTube… Precious dancehall history on YouTube… In the early ’70s, the People’s National Party (PNP) and Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) began […]
Listen to one of the great jazz quartets from the CD era. The 1990s will never be known as a decade of great jazz. An era in which […]
In 1964 as the Beatles were going viral among the kids and remaking youth culture along the way, Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy were ferrying the adults to […]
The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion […]
Today, we’re sharing this beautiful recap article and videos from Grand Performances x dublab’s tribute concert to Alice Coltrane. As both a groundbreaking musician and spiritual leader, Alice […]
On Feb. 2, 1973, the famed production premiered after The Tonight Show. For much of the 1970s and some of the ’80s, a weekly syndicated rock show called […]
Looking back on 2022… As we at In Sheep’s Clothing Hi-Fi prepare for a thrill-filled 2023, our final 2022 round-up focuses on a few things: Posts that you […]
Though many of us have spent hours (days? weeks?) on end consumed in Can live performances over the years – really, is there any better reason for YouTube? […]
Essential pre-iPhone era archival footage from dub soundsystem parties. If you’re like us and have yet to experience the legendary dub sound systems of Jah Shaka, Aba Shanti-I, […]
The Melbourne duo has released a live video and album recorded at Syndey Opera House. If you were lucky enough to catch Melbourne-based duo HTRK on their international […]
A tribute to singular musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane in celebration of her 85th birthday. Here’s another very special happening coming up at Grand Performances in downtown […]
30-minutes of pure cosmic joy and wonder from Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra. By 1972, Sun Ra had firmly established his Arkestra as a formidable presence on […]
The great Miles Davis delivers a heartbreaking performance of Cyndi Lauper’s pop classic. In 1985, the “king of cool” Miles Davis released You’re Under Arrest, a collection of […]
The genius keyboardist’s jazz-funk band was on fire – and a pro film crew captured the moment. In 1973, a restless Herbie Hancock, fresh from his cosmically free […]
Two legends of German music deliver nearly two hours of improvised bliss. In 1999, two towering figures of electronic music, Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius, stood onstage in […]
Harry “The Lion” Hosono and Tin Pan Alley play favorites from the “Crown Years.” If it wasn’t already obvious to regular readers, we at In Sheep’s Clothing are […]
The epic performance still rips 52 years later. Maybe it’s because this post is being written from Southeast Iowa, where classic rock permeates the landscape as if being […]
TIOH Arts & Culture and dublab proudly present Morton Subotnick’s ‘As I Live and Breathe’ on Thursday, March 31. Our good friends over at dublab bring you an […]
Brilliant footage of the Miles Davis Quintet at peak power. Between Feb. 1969 and Feb. 1970, Miles Davis released eight albums. Near the tail end of that amazing […]
The prolific head of Tzadik’s sublime work mixes jazz, Hebrew melodies and genre-bending beauty. In 1995, the New York composer, saxophonist and visionary John Zorn embarked on a […]
Post-Can selections from one of our favorite drummers – Jaki Liebezeit. There’s no mistaking the sound of Can drummer Jaki Liebewitz’s pound. Both sparse and complex, the late […]
The brilliant Brazilian singer, songwriter and political activist Caetano Veloso will turn 80 in August, and given his stature, influence and shimmering output over the past 60-plus years, […]
Art Don’t Sleep’s jazz series is back at The Lodge Room on March 13 with The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. If you’re a jazz fan in Los Angeles, […]
Early live versions of Souvlaki and Just for a Day. “It doesn’t seem like the crowd is aware that they’re in the presence of greatness,” notes one commenter […]
72-minutes of Stereolab live in Danbury, Connecticut. In 1994, Stereolab was hitting a creative peak. They’d just released “Mars Audiac Quintet,” their heavy-duty Krautrock-inspired fourth album, and five […]
“My Definition Of Techno House Is A Shrimp.” Earlier this year, German electronic label Transmigration released the much anticipated Space Teddy Collection, a 2xLP compilation of tracks from […]
The innovative vocalist and composer will premiere a new piece at Mills College in Oakland. Vocalist, composer, choreographer, artist, and ECM favorite Meredith Monk has a new piece […]
The ensemble formed by jazz legend Horace Tapscott performs this Saturday, October 23, at the World Stage in Leimert Park. Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra performs live […]
Suzanne Kraft joins us for an intimate live show at In Sheep’s Clothing HQ this Friday with friends. Earlier this summer, Los Angeles native Diego Herrera, aka Suzanne […]
Experience the storied collaboration between Joe Hisaishi and Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli in one brilliant two-hour performance. The In Sheep’s Clothing’s residency at Neuehouse is coming to a […]
ISC closes its first week of September programing with a deep dive into the music of Arther Russell. The In Sheep’s Clothing Residency at Neuehouse Hollywood is nearing […]
The team behind In Sheep’s Clothing is very much looking forward to hosting a night of music tomorrow from English-Nigerian chanteuse Sade. “Make Some Room” bookends the second […]
One of the only live performances of Schoener’s much beloved Gamelan fusion record, Bali-Agúng. Eberhard Schoener has made his name as a German pioneer who bridged classical music […]
A round up of 10 performances from the great Brazilian singer/guitarist. It was no accident that Brazilian singer and composer Gal Costa was born to enrapture audiences around […]
Watch a brand new colorized version of this iconic performance filmed in Liège, Belgium. There is something enrapturing about black and white film and photography, in that it […]
Revisit one of the all-time great late night music programs produced by Hal Willner. For two years starting at the end of the 1980s, the producer and musical […]
When Sun Ra caught wind of flights from Denmark to Egypt, he and the Arkestra embarked on the trip of a lifetime. Sun Ra was a singular artists […]
Brian Eno created an ideal circumstance for Hassell’s futurist vision. This video documents the trumpet player and father of “fourth world” music, Jon Hassell, in one of his […]
Footage of Durutti Column performing in Kaivopuisto Park in their early Factory Records days and a few other rare appearances. Vini Reilly of Durutti Column was the first […]
A cute and wholesome bit of performance art from the Japanese ambient music pioneer. This archival video comes from one of our favorite music blogs Fond/Sound and is […]
Watch the Penguin Cafe Orchestra play to a delighted audience for the BBC. A newly restored BBC performance by Penguin Cafe Orchestra was recently shared by Bill Film, […]
A recent performance from Mwandishi member Bennie Maupin revisits the magic of his cult classic on ECM. Missing live music? So are we. Here’s something to keep you […]
Charles Lloyd and Keith Jarrett push jazz into new territories on Jazz Casual. Ralph Gleason’s TV show Jazz Casual featured some of the most entertaining jazz recordings of […]
Was Rahsaan Roland Kirk the coolest person who ever lived? Rahsaan Roland Kirk unapologetically rode the edge of absurdity his entire life and regularly left audiences gobsmacked in […]
During a rare heatwave in San Francisco, Bola Sete and the Vince Guaraldi trio give an equally sweltering performance. It wouldn’t be too far of stretch to say […]
Miles’ septet live in Stockholm featuring musicians that would later appear on his 1974 jazz-rock classic, Get Up With It. Miles needs no introduction here. The Prince of […]
A rare TV appearance from the cult English singer-songwriter. We’re big fans of Virginia Astley here at ISC HQ. Her conceptual debut From Gardens Where We Feel Secure […]
In The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound, Warhol picks up his camera and captures a psychedelic journey. Andy Warhol is rightly regarded as a multidisciplinary […]
The spirit of Fela Kuti lives on in this live rendition of “Pansa Pansa.” Within the first few beats of this live rendition of Fela Kuti’s composition “Pansa […]
An hour-long “swamp special” hosted by New Orleans legend Dr. John. New Orleans has the distinct honor of being the undisputed cradle that birthed jazz, and its storied […]
An iconic performance that offers insight into why Gil’s influence, critique, and charm made him so dangerous to the fascist Brazilian government in the late ’60s. Montreux, Switzerland, […]
This thirty-minute Monk performance reminds us why we love and miss live jazz. For music lovers that have been starved of concerts and gigs for over a year […]
The live stream benefit concert and Q&A with Arkestra director Marshall Allen premieres Saturday, February 27th at 6pm PST. As part of their “ongoing initiative exploring the intersection […]
Wave Hill’s “Sunset Wednesdays” series presents Laraaji in a verdant moment of tranquility. Next time you need a cosmic reprieve, venture into Laraaji’s mystic grooves as part of […]
A historic Sun Ra ensemble performs at the Philharmonie, Berlin. One of the greatest jazz lineups we’ve ever seen: Archie Shepp, John Gilmore, Don Cherry, Lester Bowie, Philly […]
Here’s a rare 2.5 hour recording of Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi band live at the Strata Concert Gallery in Detroit. The performance opens with an incredible rendition of “Hidden […]
A sublime performance from the innovative kraut band just weeks after they’d been banned by the Vatican. When Edgar Froese, Conrad Schnitzler, and Klaus Schulze came together as […]
100 minutes of healing music from Ryuichi Sakamoto and shamisen prodigy Hidejiro Honjoh. Released on Sakamoto’s own YouTube channel, Playing the Piano for the Isolated is an emotional […]
“The word ‘ambient’ doesn’t ring a bell with me. It’s meant to mean something but is, in fact, meaningless. It’s not relevant for me. My style is the […]
