Every so often, a new Melvins album shows up in the wild, sometimes without anyone knowing it was coming. After more than 30 albums, one could expect diminishing returns from
Ian Hunter’s accomplishment on 2023’s Defiance Pt. I was a rare one, indeed. He could meld the litany of guests into the semblance of a band rather than just a lengthy list of
Following a long stint as a sideman in NYC with leading jazz musicians and being mentored by Ben Monder and Arturo O’Farrill, the currently residing Zurich, Switzerland guitarist and composer
Miles Davis once said that he never changed how he played; he just changed his surrounding accompanists. The same can be applied to guitarist Bill Frisell, as this 2-LP work
Suppose you knew nothing about T-Bone Burnett’s Grammy and Oscar-winning credentials or his gleaming resume as a producer. In that case, you might react to this new effort, The Other
You’ve likely heard some of their singles already. Still, the funk-fusion outfit Ghost-Note returns with their first album in six years, the expansive Mustard n’ Onions, a double-LP that extends
Judging by the strong retro country sound of The Long Way, the debut from Nicolette & The Nobodies, you’d assume Nicolette Hoang grew up in a Kentucky holler a generation or
The title of the newest release from Leyla McCalla, Sun Without The Heat, is a reference to a speech Frederick Douglass gave six years before the Emancipation Proclamation, foreshadowing a
In/CASINO/OUT, the sophomore studio album by post-hardcore band At The Drive-In, released in 1998, stands as a pivotal moment in the underground music scene of the late 90s. Recorded live
While not going full cosmic country musically on his latest, with Stellar Evolution Aaron Lee Tasjan offers some of his most spacey numbers to date. He also manages to dig