The first recorded original work from the longest tenured version of Yes represents a touch of the past and a new beginning.

‘Bad Times Good Times’ ably illustrates Sorrow’s forte for playing the melodically structured guitar pop linked with groups like Raspberries and Blue Ash.

Joe Bailey and Mark Anthony K join Preston Frazier to discuss the Dark Monarchy’s new album, working on two different continents and plans for what’s next.

Chicago added three inoffensive new studio songs to this concert recording, and “If I Should Ever Lose You” is the best of a half-hearted bunch.

A depth of knowledge that comes from long-term research, and Curt Bianchi’s passion for the music of Weather Report, is evident on every page.

L.A. is a big, diverse jazz scene where it’s tough to stand out but newcomer drummer Atticus Reynolds has quickly done just that with ‘Towers,’ bringing loads of chops and musical creativity to bear on his first record as an Angeleno.

One might think that the Everly Brothers would try to make their show into a living jukebox, but almost the opposite occurred.

“Rotations” is the trance-like advance single from Gerycz / Powers / Rolin’s strangely alluring pysch-folk LP, ‘Lamplighter.’

Ari Lehtela’s album is a godsend of sanity in the year the Earth stood still, getting everything right when everything else just went wrong.

“See, it takes two of us to make an Everly Brothers record,” Don Everly once told me, “and there’s just no way around it.”