Now it’s up to you to rifle through these albums, record store style, and upvote those you think really represent the best of rock through the years. A few notes. Representing the history of rock in around 65 albums is actually not easy. We haven’t dug too much into the deeper ve...
At one point, I tried figuring out who had the most jazz albums among artists I had none from, and Tjader was the easy winner. I picked up a record with Stan Getz after that, but Tjader remains a gaping hole in my expertise. So unlike most recent live archival trawls, I have little...
During the first week of 1967 when this album was released, the future of rock could be anything, including a jazz-identified band with a Dionysian Beat poet upfront. The Doors’ self-titled debut is remarkably diverse, with covers of songs by both Willie Dixon and Bertolt Brecht. The firs...
believed. He loved hearing“jazz in the moment,”and his concert series, collected on some of the world’s best live jazz albums, allowed so many to hear jazz for the first time outside of smoky clubs and in concert halls.
From M.I.A. to Four Tet, Kanye West to Joanna Newsom—and the many sides of Radiohead, too—here are the albums who defined the decade
New Albums from Aging Rockers: The Curmudgeon on The Pretenders, Graham Parker and Barenaked Ladies Another Michael Announce Two New Albums Shabaka:PossessionEP [Impulse!] Last month, Shabaka Hutchings released “Timepieces,” the first song from his new EP,Possession. The London jazz hero is foll...
New Jazz Albums: Japanese Jazz for your listening pleasure. Favorite New Artist It’s always a pleasure when a bright new talent emerges. For new artists I’m sure the pandemic has been a huge challenge, but even so breaks have been made in the close-on two years we’ve been locked do...
Enter our “Best Hip Hop Albums of 2024: Honorable Mentions.” These albums may have missed the top tier but there are plenty on this list that deserve a place in your headphones. From classic boom-bap to underground and from genre-bending experiments to more mainstream sounds, this ...
Signs’ six tracks are deceptively dynamic, continually shifting from new-age gasps to the sorts of minimal glitches that scuffed up albums on Mille Plateaux in the early 2000s. Subtlety is the order of the day; it can be easy to miss their slight variations, like when a plush synth pad...
At times I found myself wondering if I should even be listening at all. Two landmark albums of recent years, Sufjan Stevens’Carrie and Lowelland Nick Cave’sSkeleton Tree, were both challenging listens, heavily influenced by personal grief;A Crow Looked At Meis different. It is simply the...