Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his longstanding quartet take a thought-provoking approach to their Blue Note Records debut, Belonging. Their first long-player since 2019 is a full-album interpretation of Keith Jarrett’s 1974
He’s been writing songs about people on the fringe for damn near a lifetime. 40+ years of detailing the idiosyncrasies of outcasts, losers, freaks and outliers in society in his
Reed Turchi, the Brooklyn-based musician, producer, and poet announces his new record World On Fire, a collection of vintage blues and spiritual tunes Turchi picked up along the way on
Many scenes come to mind when you think of innovative punk music. The explosive hardcore movement that birthed many legendary Southern California bands and the equally rowdy D.C. movement are
Red House Painters’ Ocean Beach (released 3/27/25) distills this group’s idiosyncrasies. Arbitrarily categorized as part of the ‘slowcore’ genre within the indie rock universe, titular leader Mark Kozelek and company’s style belies that glib
Among the handful of Australian bands that have taken the world by storm in the last several years, few have grabbed the attention of such a diverse range of music
Lucy Dacus’ fourth album Forever Is A Feeling – and first since her supergroup boygenius went on indefinite hiatus – does a brilliant job of blending lush arrangements into her
While self-serious post-grunge and nu-metal bands dominated the rock scene in 2003, UK rockers The Darkness burst onto the scene with a glam rock revival that featured theatrical performances, flamboyant
Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Jefferson Ross dedicated each song on his brilliant 2022 Southern Comfort to one of the South’s eleven states. Ross has emerged three years later with an even more eclectic
B. Hamilton is a power trio from Oakland, California. The band comprises primary songwriter, vocalist, and guitar player Ryan Christopher Parks, drummer/engineer Raj Kumar Ojha (Once and Future Band, The
