Fire! Orchestra directed by Mats Gustafsson – Enter (2014)
A prog-leaning album that is noisy, experimental and brave.
Archive for August, 2014
Gimme Five: Garage Sailing Part II, with Traffic, Emerson Lake and Palmer, the Who and others
Finding cool old CDs on sale is great. Just don’t get the greedy eye.
Dead Earth Politics – The Queen of Steel EP (2014)
They had me at “Redneck Dragonslayer.”
One Track Mind: John Mellencamp, “Troubled Man” from Plain Spoken (2014)
A canny combination of the Mellencamp of old and the Mellencamp of today.
Something Else! sneak peek: Wadada Leo Smith, “Lake Superior” from The Great Lakes Suites (2014)
Wadada Leo Smith and his band of free jazz icons show the young guys how it’s done.
One Track Mind: Bob Dylan, “Full Moon and Open Arms” (2014)
It may be a Sinatra song, but Dylan sticks close to his more recent sound.
Skid Row – Rise of the Damnation Army: United World Rebellion, Chapter 2 (2014)
It seems, finally, that Skid Row has found its way again.
Something Else! sneak peek: The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, “Betamax” from Worker (2014)
Reconciling the icy precision of electronic music with the immediacy of fusion.
Steely Dan Sunday: The Five Best Steely Dan Singles
We pick the five best-ever singles from Steely Dan, rank ’em and praise ’em!
One Track Mind: Justin Hayward, “One Day Someday” from Spirits … Live (2014)
Hayward has never sounded closer to the material, or closer to us.
