“Where did you get your Santa onesie?!” piped the chipper, slightly inebriated girl behind me in the public restroom line. She smiled at me, enthusiastically awaiting my response, using the propped-open door to steady herself while fixing her Santa skirt; I’d noticed that there were at least five other Santa-outfit-clad women in line with us....

On the heels of releasing his eighth project of 2018 with Back From the Dead 3, Chief Keef delivered another unique surprise for fans to close out the year. The Chicago native stars in the latest episode of Audiomack’s Trap Symphony series, which dropped Wednesday, featuring a fantasy collaboration mixing Keef’s drill music with a live orchestra for a bizarrely tuneful...

Polyphia’s new album New Levels New Devils sure is something, right? “This shit bumps,” said MS scribe Dick Gozinya in his official review, while also adding “you’ll probably go apeshit” and advising you “resist the urge to pass.” All wise words. I’m not sure I’d describe this piano and string medley of Polyphia songs as “bumpin’” like...

Polyphia‘s new album New Levels New Devils is out now and our reviewer is a pretty big fan of it. Summer Swee-Singh & the Heartstrings are also clearly big fans of the work, as they’ve taken the songs “Yas,” “Nasty” and “Death Note” and mashed them all together into a kickass piano ensemble medley.

Summer Swee-Singh is an award-winning pianist/keyboardist, music arranger (strings/orch), composer, string contractor (Summer Swee-Singh & the Heartstrings), and backing vocalist. Her studio and touring credits include Circa Survive, KSHMR, Chief Keef, Anthony Green, Until the Ribbon Breaks, Alexandra Shipp, etc.; her work has also been praised by Skrillex, Ed Banger Records, Carlos Rafael Rivera, DJ...

In the backstage room we were greeted by a large couch, some unstable stools, an old piano, scattered instruments and a tub of salsa open on the coffee table. Their photographer snapped a few shots of the scene, immortalizing the charm of the untidy room. The three brothers, Mario Camarena, Nathan Camarena and Esiah Camarena,...

The original accompaniment is extremely dynamic. When I was originally recording it, I thought about doing it super bare bones. Then I kept hearing different accompaniment in the vocals. We met the composer Summer Swee-Singh when Circa Survive was touring in Los Angeles who had done a map up on YouTube of a couple of...

A classically trained pianist posts a cover of a rock band’s track--and winds up on stage with them. A piano instructor draws on favorite game tunes on Instagram mini-etudes for students--and ends up working together with a popular composer on an album of arrangements, complete with sheet music. It’s all thanks to covers and social media, and it’s changing the way music gets made in some of the most productive, lucrative niches of the music industry...

@summersweesingh performs her original composition “JFN (with Prelude)” on a Model B #Steinway and strings. Do you have original videos to share featuring a Steinway? Email us at communications@steinway.com.

“Dubstep” is not for everyone, and the most famous and successful musician of the genre, Skrillex, is rather famously divisive. Regardless of your feelings about the music, the sound of Skrillex’s compositions played on real instruments may surprise you…

Bro Bible picked up my cover of Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites by Skrillex on their list of ’10 Chill, Non-Electric Covers of Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites’. This girl who went to UC Berkeley arranged SM&NS, along with a couple other Skrillex songs, for her and her friends to jam out to on the...

You might not (yet!) be familiar with the name Summer Swee-Singh, but I don’t think that will be true for very long. Summer sent me her debut album, Summer Swee-Singh and the Crazy 88, in January of this year. I wasn’t familiar with her name, but the album cover was intriguing! Fast forward a couple of...

Summer Swee-Singh & the Crazy 88 is the debut album by Southern California pianist/ composer/ keyboardist/ music director/ film scorer/ arranger/ and piano consultant Summer Swee-Singh. To preface this review, I want to mention that when I was in the piano area of NAMM (National Association of Music Merchandisers) last month, I heard some dramatic music...

Pianists Summer Swee-Singh and David Lezcano improvising with four hands on the Shigeru SK-EX at the NAMM show. (See the original post here…)

Summer Swee-Singh is veteran performer that presents a polished sound in each track on her latest self-titled releaseSummer Swee-Singh & the Crazy 88. Her sound resonates with a self-assurance and gracefulness that instantly attracts you and vitalizes your senses, or revitalizes, whatever your need may be. For me it usually is the batteries that need to...

The 2012 Grammys confirmed that EDM had entered the mainstream, but Dave Grohl didn’t really seem to be on board. A debate ensued. But if you ask Summer Shee-SinghSwee-Singh — who’s been playing the piano since she was 8 — EDM is quite worthy. She’s been putting together classical arrangements of genre stars like Skrillex and Daft...

Skrillex loves it when folks cover his songs, which is good because there are a billion of them. When we met with the twenty-three-year-old producer in San Diego recently to interview him for this week’s cover story — out today — he noted that he was particularly impressed with fan-made YouTube versions of his hit “Scary Monsters and Nice...