It doesn’t really matter what Isis is defined as anymore. The band called it quits in 2010 after the release of a final studio album, the remarkable Wavering Radiant, and has ridden off into the proverbial Boston sunset. You May Also Like: Elton John – ‘Jewel Box’ (2020) Dave StrykerRead More

Just three years out of the Berklee College of Music, pianist and composer Julian Shore has figured out a couple of important things pretty early on in his career: mind your melodies and present them in the best possible light. You May Also Like: Caroline Davis – Heart Tonic (2018)Read More

Even today, more than a decade after discovering Eva Cassidy, listening to her music always brings me an unshakable tinge of melancholy that accompanies the joy and wonderment from hearing her unbelievably perfect voice. You May Also Like: Traffic’s Catalog Returns as Individual Vinyl Reissues – But Something Is MissingRead More

What are the chances of two bands sharing the same moniker, having the same number of members in the group, living in the same locale and recording for the same label?

We learned more from a three minute record baby, than we ever learned in school… Yes, words to live by. And I’ve kind of felt that way for most of my life. You May Also Like: Reevaluating Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle’ How BruceRead More

*** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** Here is the second part of a three installment series chronicling harmonica extraordinaire Will Galison’s first hand experience working with Donald Fagen on a couple of tracks for what became Fagen’s next album You May Also Like: Donald Fagen, “New Frontier” from ‘The NightflyRead More

Getting the music right, after all of these years, is in many ways the easy part. What changes, inevitably, for bands of Asia’s vintage are the vocals. You May Also Like: Carl Palmer, of Asia and Emerson Lake & Palmer: Something Else! Interview John Wetton, Jonny Greenwood, Downes Braide AssociationRead More

Pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura take to Muku with designs on once again challenging the listener. The two have consistently done so throughout their impressive careers thus far, so it should come as no surprise You May Also Like: Satoko Fujii w/ Wadada Leo Smith, Natsuki Tamura, IkueRead More

At the Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois: Many so-called nostalgia acts figure all the crowd wants is to hear the big hits. However, longtime fans were richly rewarded on November 16, 2012, when The Monkees hit the stage You May Also Like: Four Monkees Deep Cuts That Will Simply Blow YourRead More

Part beat group, part blues band, part ornate pop group, part psychedelic rockers, the Move may have been too interesting for their own good.