It’s hard to define Aaron Neville’s music. Even for Aaron Neville.

Stan Killian’s Unified is an attractive album right from the first listen. Actually, even before that first listen. Checking out the names of horn players playing alongside Killian listed on the back cover of the CD case, I saw there was already a recipe for success

by Mark Saleski There are a handful of female voices out there that’ll cause me to stop, listen, and be amazed: Bjork, Diamanda Galas, Rickie Lee Jones, The Roches. Those women rule the landscape with oddball cadences, insane textures, and emotional tones ranging from delicate sensuality to raw violence. But then there’s Meredith Monk. Totally fearless with her conceptions and [...]

Usually the One You Skip on the Beatles’ White Album, “Revolution No. 9″ caught my attention again the other day — and I listened to it, really listened, for the first time in ages.

by Mark Saleski As the era of Classic Rock shrinks into the musical and cultural rear view mirror, it’s been enlightening to see how the stars have dealt with aging.

by Tom Johnson For Killing Joke fans, this period in the band’s history was pretty cool. First, there was Inside Extremities which offered a previously unreleased 1991 concert, and then this pair of 2007 releases: two three-disc sets (at a very low price-point) of live material from the band’s career throughout the ’80s and early ’90s. The sound quality varies, [...]