[rating=7.00] The prolific songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Beth Wood delivers The Long Road, a studio album recorded mostly live at the Rye Room in Portland, OR. She has a collection on
[rating=8.00] Mark Knopfler is not a prolific artist that delivers an album every year. It’s two or three years between albums and for the most part, we generally know what
In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Bought to Rot, the debut album from Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace and her new band the Devouring Mothers, in his signature six-panel
[rating=8.00] Making both electric and acoustic versions of the same material often favors one version over the other, but Shawn Mullins delivers excellently on each version of his 1998 classic
[rating=9.00] This is clearly the year for rediscovered lost performances for the giants of jazz, first Coltrane in June, then Monk just this past September, and now Charles Mingus –
[rating=8.00] Brooklyn-based composer-saxophonist Marcus Strickland is part of the new vanguard of contemporary jazzmen like Robert Glasper and Kamasi Washington, intersecting jazz with contemporary music and production techniques to deliver
[rating=10.00] Last year’s re-release of Sgt Pepper proved that there’s ample interest in reexamining a Beatles masterpiece and uncovering the outtakes, seminal efforts and experiments that went into ratcheting up
[rating=9.00] Stone Mecca is a Dallas artist who has worked as RZA’s musical director and bandleader. Alienman might sound like the title of a new Ace Frehley album, but it’s something
This three-CD Ben Sidran set is not only special but it’s a limited edition with only 3,000 sets manufactured. We start there to head off any procrastination. Co-producer Zev Feldman
[rating=7.00] Since his early 2000’s underrated Fog releases, J Mascis has used his solo albums to focus on his softer acoustic side. His recent run on Sub Pop, 2011’s Several Shades
