True Nature couldn’t have picked a more appropriate title for its new EP, even if the group — led by Lou Barlow — doesn’t start off taking its own advice. You May Also Like: Matthew Shipp – ‘The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp’ (2023) Jeff Beck – Loud Hailer (2016) ToddRead More

For Genesis alum Steve Hackett, 2013 was a year of loving looks back, and long-overdue recognition. He’ll spend the new year building on those successes with new music. You May Also Like: Steve Hackett selects his all-time favorite Genesis album: ‘I like the worlds of ideas on it’

You’d think all of this knee-slapping banjo jazz, rip-snorting jug music and grease-popping soul would be emanating from somewhere in the kudzu-covered reaches of the Deep South — not Brooklyn. You May Also Like: Boz Scaggs + Duane Allman, “Loan Me a Dime” (1969): One Track Mind

Beth Hart has crafted a reputation for scalding, Joplin-esque barnburners — and you might be expecting “Baddest Blues” to follow suit. Think again. You May Also Like: Beth Hart, “Mechanical Heart” from Better Than Home (2015): One Track Mind Beth Hart, “Might As Well Smile” from Better Than Home (2015):Read More

Their recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction has a lot of fans romanticizing Kiss’ original lineup. It wasn’t all “Deuce” and “God of Thunder,” however. You May Also Like: Kiss’ fussy and overwrought Destroyer tried to out think itself

Paula Cole’s quietly determined bonus track closes out a new benefit album for Hurricane Sandy Relief.

Bobby Watson, over a career that began with his meteoric rise to musical director in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers at the turn of the 1980s, hasn’t shied away from the political. You May Also Like: Midnight North – Stayin’ Single, Drinkin’ Doubles EP (2015) On Eric Weissberg, Doc Watson andRead More

Martin Scorcese’s newest film, The Wolf of Wall Street, features the director’s usual assortment of delectable oldies — but the best moment maybe belong to a new song. Or, really, a new version of an old song. You May Also Like: Durand Jones – Durand Jones and the Indications: DeluxeRead More

There’s a different attitude surrounding these recordings, which find Tommy Castro collaborating with a tough new group of blues-rock loving youngsters. You May Also Like: Left Lane Cruiser – Beck In Black (2016) Steve Earle, “The Tennessee Kid” from Terraplane (2015): One Track Mind

It’s perhaps unsurprising that nobody recognizes Benmont Tench, for too long the faceless soul of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers. After all, singers and guitar players are typically the focal points. You May Also Like: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ gritty Mojo was more than just the blues Mudcrutch’s belated self-titled debutRead More