Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Don’t look back, Dylan once quoted. (Negro/Major League pitching great Satchel Paige actually initially said the words). Spoken like a

The legendary Stax imprint was and always will be a phoenix among ashes. Stax ’68: A Memphis Story is a

Great music often comes from the effort to contain contradictory impulses, and so it is with The Unseen In Between.

It’s a bit daunting to pick an entry point into a career that spans more than half a century. It’s

You shouldn’t make a double LP if you aren’t ready to stretch a bit. Marcia Bassett of Zaïmph (ex-Un, Hototogisu,

Way beyond the sultry, snaky and truly signature hit she made with the mysterious “Ode To Billie Joe,” there has

Though released at the tail end of 2018, this feels like a more appropriate totem in which to hail Elvis

Rock 'n' roll doesn’t have to be new. An inspired what-if notion might all that it takes to instigate some

Bob Dylan at the tail end of 2018 was a fascinating, irascible concept. Dylan at the circus selling his Heaven’s

To call an 11-to-17 disc dissection of Ray Davies’ flowery, lit-witty masterpiece “forensic” doesn’t quite say enough about how the

On his own and as half of Barn Owl, Jon Porras has tended to make instrumental music that's expansive and

Nearly 30 years (!?) after the ping-ponging pop-hop of Raw Like Sushi and its global hit, “Buffalo Stance,” Neneh Chery

Heather Leigh has been playing music on her own and with Charalambides, Tarpis Tula and Peter Brötzmann (among others) for

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