A song, just like a shot, can go awry. And in that blink of an eye, careers – maybe, lives – change.

The song unfolds as if the music is tracing behind the lyric rather than, say, the drums.

There’s little, if any, redeeming value to the message. And yet I can’t get the song out of my head.

He passed on way back in 1993, but the earth – no … the universe – still misses him.

As this song trumpets – quite literally – there ain’t nothing like a Rebirth groove.

The project doesn’t just pay tribute to Jeffrey Lee Pierce so much as expand his legacy.

Somewhere tucked away under all of that hipster modernity is a stone-cold blues lover.

Ideal Bread have made a career of lovingly presenting the music of the great Steve Lacy. On their previous records, The Ideal Bread and Transmit, the group trafficked in more or less straight readings of Lacy’s music. You May Also Like: Adam Hopkins’ Crickets, “Grounded” (2023): Something Else! One TrackRead More

The architect of classic Isleys slow jams like “Footsteps” and “Between The Sheets” is at it again.

Catherine Russell always rises to the occasion, whether with Steely Dan, the Dukes of September – or on this terrific new song.