October 2024

James Brown invented funk, the foundation stone for hip-hop, a lot of pop and disco music, and the groove he introduced also kept a lot...

When John Cale labored alongside Lou Reed in the Velvet Underground, he wasn’t exactly a shrinking violet. Cale matched his bandmate step for convention-shattering step,...

For all kinds of reasons, Cape Verdean Blues is a much more modernist offering than Horace Silver’s previous release, Song For My Father, and slightly...

Every year in the sadly curtailed recording career of Hank Williams produced any number of timeless pieces of music, but 1949 was an especially memorable...

When Gordon Lightfoot decided to record his first live album, Sunday Concert, it was only appropriate that it should be captured in his home country of...

Though Tangerine Dream’s 1989 album, Lily On The Beach, attracted a fair smattering of critical praise, they chose not to tour in support of it....