Andy Beta

Andy Beta is a music journalist. Below are 228 of 228 articles dotpiff indexes across 8 publications. Each links out to the original at the publisher.

• Miles Davis: Filles de Kilimanjaro — Pitchfork · May 31, 2026
• The Lot for May — Beta’s Substack · May 19, 2026
• Twofer Tuesday #16 — Beta’s Substack · Apr 14, 2026
• The Lot for March — Beta’s Substack · Mar 17, 2026
• The Lot for February — Beta’s Substack · Feb 23, 2026
• Planetarium Year 3 — Beta’s Substack · Feb 04, 2026
• The Lot for January — Beta’s Substack · Jan 26, 2026
• Robert Haigh — Beta’s Substack · Jan 06, 2026
• 2025 2 — Beta’s Substack · Dec 15, 2025
• The Lot for November (an imaginary set) — Beta’s Substack · Dec 03, 2025
• In the Fried Archives: Olivia Block — Beta’s Substack · Nov 20, 2025
• The Lot for Halloween — Beta’s Substack · Nov 03, 2025
• Stan Getz / João Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto — Pitchfork · Oct 19, 2025
• The Lot for October — Beta’s Substack · Oct 07, 2025
• JD Twitch — Beta’s Substack · Sep 22, 2025
• Jeff Parker for We Jazz Magazine — Beta’s Substack · Sep 18, 2025
• The Lot for September — Beta’s Substack · Sep 10, 2025
• Jason Kolàr — Beta’s Substack · Sep 03, 2025
• Listening in 3 Parts — Beta’s Substack · Aug 26, 2025
• The Lot for August — Beta’s Substack · Aug 12, 2025
• Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill — Beta’s Substack · Aug 07, 2025
• Twofer Tuesday #8 — Beta’s Substack · Jul 29, 2025
• The Lot for July — Beta’s Substack · Jul 14, 2025
• Twofer Tuesday #5 — Beta’s Substack · Jul 08, 2025
• Felbm — Beta’s Substack · May 27, 2025
• The Lot for May — Beta’s Substack · May 20, 2025
• Wilson Tanner — Beta’s Substack · May 15, 2025
• Alice Coltrane: Universal Consciousness — Pitchfork · May 11, 2025
• The Lot for April — Beta’s Substack · Apr 24, 2025
• Jefre Cantu-Ledesma — Beta’s Substack · Apr 01, 2025
• The Lot for March — Beta’s Substack · Mar 24, 2025
• heep see 2-14 — Beta’s Substack · Feb 14, 2025
• Eddie Chacon — Beta’s Substack · Feb 05, 2025
• Leslie Winer’s Music Was a Mystery in 1990. She Still Likes It That Way. — The New York Times · Aug 30, 2021
• Natural Information Society / Evan Parker: descension (Out of Our Constrictions) — Pitchfork · Apr 26, 2021
• Irena Havlová / Vojtěch Havel: Melodies in the Sand — Pitchfork · Mar 15, 2021
• Pauline Anna Strom: Angel Tears in Sunlight — Pitchfork · Feb 19, 2021
• Khruangbin: Late Night Tales — Pitchfork · Dec 08, 2020
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live in Maui — Pitchfork · Nov 28, 2020
• M. Geddes Gengras: Time Makes Nothing Happen — Pitchfork · Nov 18, 2020
• Call Super: ** — Pitchfork · Oct 26, 2020
• SPAZA: UPRIZE! — Pitchfork · Oct 15, 2020
• Moor Mother: Circuit City — Pitchfork · Oct 14, 2020
• Avalon Emerson: DJ-Kicks — Pitchfork · Sep 18, 2020
• Vladislav Delay / Sly Dunbar / Robbie Shakespeare: 500-Push-Up — Pitchfork · Aug 31, 2020
• Nubya Garcia: Source — Pitchfork · Aug 25, 2020
• Max Richter: Voices — Pitchfork · Aug 05, 2020
• Eddie Chacon, a Fleeting ’90s Neo Soul Star, Returns as an Old Soul — The New York Times · Jul 28, 2020
• Jon Hassell: Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) — Pitchfork · Jul 25, 2020
• Kamaal Williams: Wu Hen — Pitchfork · Jul 24, 2020
• Nicole Mitchell / Lisa E. Harris: EarthSeed — Pitchfork · Jul 03, 2020
• Kamasi Washington: Becoming (Music From the Netflix Original Documentary) — Pitchfork · May 19, 2020
• Beatriz Ferreyra: Huellas Entreveradas — Pitchfork · May 08, 2020
• Irreversible Entanglements: Who Sent You? — Pitchfork · Mar 25, 2020
• Priscilla Ermel: Origens Da Luz — Pitchfork · Mar 18, 2020
• Channel Tres’s journey from South Central to stardom — The Fader · Dec 20, 2019
• 30 years of iconic Warp releases and the artists that loved them — The Fader · Dec 09, 2019
• Inside the the World’s First Mainstream Album Made With AI — Vulture · Nov 13, 2019
• 35 Greatest Horror Soundtracks: Modern Masters, Gatekeepers Choose — Rolling Stone · Oct 18, 2019
• Daniel Johnston Was a Hero for the Wounded — Vulture · Sep 12, 2019
• How Floating Points made his unhinged new album Crush — The Fader · Aug 28, 2019
• Every Nirvana Song, Ranked — Vulture · Jun 17, 2019
• Dr. John’s Peculiar Yet Undeniable New Orleans Legacy — Vulture · Jun 07, 2019
• Roky Erickson Was the Patron Saint of Psychedelic Escape — Vulture · Jun 04, 2019
• Scott Walker Was So Much More Than the Walker Brothers — Vulture · Mar 25, 2019
• Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis and the Language of Silence — Vulture · Mar 05, 2019
• How Japanese Ambient Music Became a Thing in America — Vulture · Feb 27, 2019
• How Jessica Pratt Zoned Out and Made the Calmest Album of Her Career — Vulture · Feb 13, 2019
• Panda Bear Wants You to Pay Attention — Vulture · Feb 07, 2019
• A Brief History of Rock Musicians Who Went Electronic — Vulture · Jan 28, 2019
• Kelman Duran Puts a Ghostly Spin on Reggaeton — Rolling Stone · Jan 24, 2019
• Nicolas Roeg’s Musical Legacy — Vulture · Dec 05, 2018
• Neneh Cherry’s Key Musical Moments — Vulture · Oct 19, 2018
• Kamasi Washington Brought Jazz to a Pop Audience, but Where Does He Go Next? — Vulture · Jun 21, 2018
• How a Digital Rabbit Hole Gave Midori Takada’s 1983 Album a Second Life — The New York Times · May 21, 2018
• Gas, Ambient Techno Icon, Talks His Forward-Thinking, Longform ‘Rausch’ — Rolling Stone · May 17, 2018
• Grace Jones on New Doc ‘Bloodlight and Bami,’ Space Concerts and Twerking Lessons — Rolling Stone · Apr 11, 2018
• ‘Annihilation’: Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury Talk Its Haunting Score — Rolling Stone · Mar 14, 2018
• 10 Things We Learned at Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Black Panther’ Cast Talk — Rolling Stone · Feb 28, 2018
• Remembering Hugh Masekela — Vulture · Jan 24, 2018
• Underground Rock King Ty Segall on the Weirdness of Semi-Fame, Defining Success — Rolling Stone · Jan 19, 2018
• The Unexpected Longevity of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic — Vulture · Dec 14, 2017
• 20 Best EDM and Electronic Albums of 2017 — Rolling Stone · Dec 13, 2017
• Revisiting Animal Collective’s Influential Sung Tongs — Vulture · Dec 06, 2017
• The Lasting Influence of the Raincoats — Vulture · Nov 21, 2017
• The Murky and Moody World of King Krule — Vulture · Oct 12, 2017
• Space is the Place: A Somewhat Comprehensive Guide to Sun Ra’s Cosmic Jazz — Vulture · Oct 11, 2017
• Hundred Waters Talk Finding Strength in Isolation on New LP — Rolling Stone · Sep 19, 2017
• 10 Great Adam Yauch Musical Moments — Rolling Stone · Aug 04, 2017
• Mura Masa: How ‘Geographical Isolation’ Spawned a Singular EDM Producer — Rolling Stone · Jul 11, 2017
• Laurel Halo Shakes Up Her Sound After Partnering With a Humanoid Pop Star — The New York Times · Jun 21, 2017
• This Is the Best Meditation Music — Vulture · May 16, 2017
• Meet the Legendary Producer That Time Forgot — Vulture · May 12, 2017
• With Cancer in the Past, Ryuichi Sakamoto Returns to His Calling — The New York Times · Apr 21, 2017
• On Fillmore: How Wilco-Related Duo Learned to Let Go in Brazil — Rolling Stone · Mar 22, 2017
• Charlemagne Palestine Takes Fans Back to Seventies New York — Village Voice · Mar 07, 2017
• Cult German Collective Giegling Brings Its Circus to New York — Village Voice · Feb 03, 2017
• For This Downtown Duo, Georgia Is a Band — Village Voice · Jan 25, 2017
• 20 Best EDM and Electronic Albums of 2016 — Rolling Stone · Dec 16, 2016
• Meet Nao, Avant-R&B Star Moving From Back-Up Singer Shadows — Rolling Stone · Jul 28, 2016
• Best EDM, Electronic and Dance Albums of 2016 So Far — Rolling Stone · Jun 22, 2016
• Radiohead’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ Album Is a Haunting, Stunning Triumph — Rolling Stone · May 08, 2016
• Summer 2016’s 30 Must-See Music Festivals — Rolling Stone · May 06, 2016
• Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil: Tropicália Icons Talk U.S. Tour — Rolling Stone · Apr 21, 2016
• Electronic Soundbender Andy Stott on ‘Plastic’ Feel of New LP — Rolling Stone · Apr 15, 2016
• ‘Star Wars’ Goes EDM: How Beatmakers Turned Iconic Sound Effects Into Music — Rolling Stone · Mar 04, 2016
• Don’t Look Back: Animal Collective Grow Up — Vulture · Feb 19, 2016
• Baauer Is Shaking Off the Blessing and Curse of Meme Stardom — Rolling Stone · Feb 17, 2016
• 20 Best EDM and Electronic Albums of 2015 — Rolling Stone · Dec 17, 2015
• Inside ‘Junun’: Jonny Greenwood, Shye Ben-Tzur Talk Indian-Music Odyssey — Rolling Stone · Dec 01, 2015
• Dam-Funk on Ariel Pink, Snoop Dogg and Retro-Fabulous New Triple LP — Rolling Stone · Sep 04, 2015
• How 2 Live Crew’s Leader Went from Sex-Rap Mogul to Sociopolitical Pundit — Rolling Stone · Aug 12, 2015
• 25 Greatest Internet DJ Mixes of All Time — Rolling Stone · Aug 05, 2015
• Four Tet on Ambitious New LP and What It’s Like to DJ With Skrillex — Rolling Stone · Jul 16, 2015
• Tame Impala’s Mind Tricks: Kevin Parker on Sense-Altering ‘Currents’ — Rolling Stone · May 14, 2015
• Summer 2015’s 50 Must-See Music Festivals — Rolling Stone · Apr 24, 2015
• Remembering Barron Machat, the Label Boss Who Took Pop In Wild, New Directions — Rolling Stone · Apr 14, 2015
• Computer Controlled Instruments Pt2 EP — Rolling Stone · Feb 13, 2015
• Lost Themes — Rolling Stone · Feb 03, 2015
• Presents…Terry Riley’s In C Mali — Rolling Stone · Jan 26, 2015
• 2015 Preview: 68 Reasons This Year Will Rule — Rolling Stone · Jan 05, 2015
• Panda Bear Chases the ‘Psychedelic Sweet Spot’ on ‘Grim Reaper’ LP — Rolling Stone · Dec 12, 2014
• Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell — Rolling Stone · Nov 05, 2014
• Cover Story: Flying Lotus Confronts Death — The Fader · Oct 01, 2014
• Artist to Watch: Pittsburgh Track Authority — Rolling Stone · May 12, 2014
• DJ Larry Levan Remembered at Paradise Garage Reunion Block Party — Rolling Stone · May 12, 2014
• Interview: Todd Terje — The Fader · Mar 04, 2014
• Detroit’s Underground Resistance — The Fader · Oct 24, 2013
• Dub in This Club: Jamaican Dancehall Rises Again — Rolling Stone · Aug 16, 2013
• Disclosure: Child’s Play — The Fader · Jun 04, 2013
• Avey Tare Goes Nightswimming - Page 1 - Music - New York — Village Voice · Oct 27, 2010
• This Is Why Nine 11 Thesaurus Are Hot - Page 1 - Music - New York — Village Voice · Sep 22, 2010
• !!! Do Berlin - Page 1 - Music - New York — Village Voice · Aug 25, 2010
• The Toxic Joys of Sunday Best - Page 1 - Music - New York — Village Voice · May 25, 2010
• WYNU's Beats in Space Turns 500 - Page 1 - Music - New York — Village Voice · Dec 22, 2009
• The Revenge of TV on the Radio — Village Voice · Jan 21, 2009
• Raiding Quantic’s Instrument Collection — Bandcamp Daily
• Various Artists, “Mambos Levis D’Outro Mundo” — Bandcamp Daily
• Jose Mauro, “Obnóxius” — Bandcamp Daily
• Terry Allen, ”Lubbock (On Everything)“ — Bandcamp Daily
• Ahmed Malek & Flako, “The Electronic Tapes” — Bandcamp Daily
• Mim Suleiman, “Kawaida” — Bandcamp Daily
• Pauline Anna Strom, “Trans-Millenia Music” — Bandcamp Daily
• The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Dub of African Head Charge — Bandcamp Daily
• Brooklyn’s Ambient Church Focuses on Close Listening — Bandcamp Daily
• Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Eternal Reggae/Dub Discography — Bandcamp Daily
• Park Jiha Takes Listeners to the Inner Realms of Korean Music — Bandcamp Daily
• How “Trust In Rock” Concerts Changed Berkeley’s Musical Landscape For the Weirder — Bandcamp Daily
• Tuareg Rock Band Tinariwen Will Not Be Silenced — Bandcamp Daily
• Tomeka Reid Quartet’s “Old New” Is Fresh and Transformative — Bandcamp Daily
• Floating Points, “Crush” — Bandcamp Daily
• Omar Souleyman, “Shlon” — Bandcamp Daily
• Black Jazz Consortium Explores the World on “Evolutions of Light” — Bandcamp Daily
• The Sorcerers, “In Search Of The Lost City Of The Monkey God” — Bandcamp Daily
• On “Workaround,” Beatrice Dillon’s Imaginary Club Music Gets Fully Realized — Bandcamp Daily
• A Brief Guide to the Music of Ann Peebles — Bandcamp Daily
• Gigi Masin, “Calypso” — Bandcamp Daily
• A Guide to the Essential Al Green Deep Cuts — Bandcamp Daily
• Before Dubstep and IDM, There Was Bleep — Bandcamp Daily
• The Vin Du Select Qualitite Label Brings a Punk Aesthetic to Acoustic Music — Bandcamp Daily
• In New “Stone Crush” Comp, A Definitive Introduction to Modern Memphis Soul — Bandcamp Daily
• On “Heaven to a Tortured Mind,” Yves Tumor Redefines the Rock Star — Bandcamp Daily
• For Jazz Legend Gary Bartz, “Hearing is Like A Fingerprint” — Bandcamp Daily
• On Craig Kupka’s New “Crystals” Reissue, an ’80s Electronic Hero is Reborn — Bandcamp Daily
• A Guide to Moodymann’s Sample-Based House Music — Bandcamp Daily
• Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience, “To Know Without Knowing” — Bandcamp Daily
• A Brief Guide to the Animal Collective Discography — Bandcamp Daily
• Exotic Sin, “Customer’s Copy” — Bandcamp Daily
• Phew, “Vertigo KO” — Bandcamp Daily
• A Beginner’s Guide to Autechre — Bandcamp Daily
• The New Sound of Electronic Music in Egypt — Bandcamp Daily
• Sun Ra Arkestra, “Swirling” — Bandcamp Daily
• Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites — Bandcamp Daily
• How Leila’s “Like Weather” Shaped the Sound of Futuristic R&B to Come — Bandcamp Daily
• Where to Begin With Biosphere’s Dreamlike Electronica — Bandcamp Daily
• A Guide to the Jamaican Label Equiknoxx, Who Are Reinventing the Sound of Dancehall — Bandcamp Daily
• Gary Bartz, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Adrian Younge, “Jazz Is Dead 6” — Bandcamp Daily
• Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble, “NOW” — Bandcamp Daily
• Revisiting the Sound of ’90s Ambient — Bandcamp Daily
• Francisco Mora Catlett, “Mora!” — Bandcamp Daily
• Nyssa Musique, “Comme Au Moulin” — Bandcamp Daily
• Finding José Mauro — Bandcamp Daily
• Squarepusher’s Iconic Debut “Feed Me Weird Things” Turns 25 — Bandcamp Daily
• Ìxtahuele, “Dharmaland” — Bandcamp Daily
• Exploring the Czech Folk of the Havels — Bandcamp Daily
• Gas Tanks & Synesthesia: The Free Jazz of Germán Bringas — Bandcamp Daily
• In 1977, Kraig Kilby Spied the Future of Jazz — Bandcamp Daily
• Sixteen Years Since He First Appeared, Shackleton Remains a Mystery — Bandcamp Daily
• The Road to Radiohead’s “Kid A” — Bandcamp Daily
• Pamela Z’s “Echolocation” Presents the Early Years of a New Music Innovator — Bandcamp Daily
• Various Artists, “Ritmo Fantasia: Balearic Spanish Synth​-​Pop, Boogie and House (1982​-​1992)” — Bandcamp Daily
• Bola Sete, “Samba in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse 1966​-​1968” — Bandcamp Daily
• Burial, “Antidawn” — Bandcamp Daily
• Various Artists, “Mainstream Funk: Funk, Soul, & Spiritual Jazz 1971-75” — Bandcamp Daily
• Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee, “BAMANAN” — Bandcamp Daily
• Huerco S., “Plonk” — Bandcamp Daily
• New Directions in Gwoka — Bandcamp Daily
• Navigating Pete Namlook’s Sprawling Musical Universe — Bandcamp Daily
• 40 Years In, Saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu Finds A New Audience — Bandcamp Daily
• It’s Cosy Inside: A Guide to Woo — Bandcamp Daily
• The Enchanting Musical Universe of Virginia Astley — Bandcamp Daily
• Various Artists, “Viento Sur” — Bandcamp Daily
• Congotronics International, “Where’s The One?” — Bandcamp Daily
• Reintroducing Ángel Rada, Venezuela’s Pre-Eminent Experimentalist — Bandcamp Daily
• The Smile, “A Light for Attracting Attention” — Bandcamp Daily
• EMÆNUEL, “SUKISTAN” — Bandcamp Daily
• Jack J and the Mood Hut Collective Reimagine Dance Music In New Forms — Bandcamp Daily
• The Maghreban, “Connection” — Bandcamp Daily
• John Ondolo, “Hypnotic Guitar of John Ondolo” — Bandcamp Daily
• Pedro Lima, “Recordar É Viver: Antologia Vol​.​1” — Bandcamp Daily
• Night Swimmer, “Xia Ye” — Bandcamp Daily
• Tumi Mogorosi Revives the Chorale Jazz Tradition — Bandcamp Daily
• Morgan Geist & Michael Kelley Reflect on Their Paradigm-Shifting Dance Music — Bandcamp Daily
• Alhaji Waziri Oshomah, “The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah” — Bandcamp Daily
• The Robert Haigh Catalog: From Classical Piano to Drum & Bass and Back Again — Bandcamp Daily
• Wau Wau Collectif, “Mariage” — Bandcamp Daily
• Surya Botofasina, Alice Coltrane’s Mentee, Takes Center Stage — Bandcamp Daily
• A Decade of Peak Oil’s Strange & Mysterious Electronic Music — Bandcamp Daily
• Weird Old Americana — Bandcamp Daily
• Australian Label Isle of Jura Focuses on Rare Releases — Bandcamp Daily
• ’90s Ambient: Diving Even Deeper — Bandcamp Daily
• Recorded 20 Years Ago, “The Clouds” Drifts Back Into View — Bandcamp Daily
• Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters, “Abri Cyclonique” — Bandcamp Daily
• Christina Vantzou’s “Unsettled” Electroacoustic Compositions — Bandcamp Daily
• Yves Tumor, “Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)” — Bandcamp Daily
• Doll Parts: The Story of Shizuka — Bandcamp Daily
• Meet the Duo Behind the Rare Jazz-Funk Albums Sampled By J Dilla — Bandcamp Daily
• The Road to Aphex Twin’s “Selected Ambient Works Volume II” — Bandcamp Daily