“Let’s Drive,” released today as part of John Oates’ Good Road to Follow series, is emblematic of the free-form creative tear he’s been on — combining soul and country, and focusing on a brand-new topic. You May Also Like: Hall and Oates, “Open All Night” from H20 (1982): One TrackRead More

Last year a sextet led by saxophonist Dan White made a cool record New York Sessions where the covers were just as interesting as the originals, especially their imaginative take on “Man Out Of You” from the Disney animated film Mulan. You May Also Like: Vijay Iyer Sextet – FarRead More

Jann Klose’s newly released album Mosaic confirms his rising reputation as an interpretive friend to the legacies of Tim Buckley and his son Jeff. You May Also Like: The Ageless Mystery and Otherworldly Charge of Jeff Buckley Tim Kuhl, “The Neon Design” from Sky Valley (2018): One Track Mind

As a sweeping reissue of King Crimson’s Red looms, we returned to that classic trio-era recording, along with the group’s seminal proto-prog debut, its early 1980s comeback and a pair of deeply intriguing 1990s recordings. Key figures from each of those eras join us, a part of exclusive SER Sitdowns,Read More

Warren Haynes’ Gov’t Mule has hatched an interesting idea: Issuing a new double-album project with Disc 1 devoted to new songs, while the second disc features those same song interpreted with a series of big-name guests. You May Also Like: As Gov’t Mule reached a turning point, By a ThreadRead More

Lenny Kravitz brings a crunchy sense of propulsion to this advance song from the forthcoming Plastic Ono Band album, though Yoko Ono handles the vocals alone — whizzing past an even more intriguing intersection. You May Also Like: John Lennon, “I Found Out” from Plastic Ono Band (1970): One TrackRead More

Darden Smith returns with a quietly introspective love song — one that offers as many ruminative questions about the mysteries of passion as it does celebrations of how these things somehow work out anyway. You May Also Like: Jeff Beck + Rod Stewart, “People Get Ready” from Flash (1985): OneRead More

In yet another guest-packed project, the Billy Sherwood-produced Steve Miller tribute Fly Like an Eagle finds a special resonance with the inclusion of more final music from Peter Banks. You May Also Like: Billy Sherwood + Tony Kaye and Chris Squire, “The Citizen” (2015): One Track Mind Todd Rundgren, BillyRead More

It’s hard to deny the electricity, enthusiasm and emotion of Afro-Cuban music, and a certain drummer out of San Francisco has captured that essence in leading a band of like-minded specialists of the music form. You May Also Like: The Flower Pot Men, “Let’s Go to San Francisco [Pts. 1-2]”Read More

Peaking at No. 21 on the national charts in the spring of 1970, “Little Green Bag” (Colassus Records) scores a bounty of brownie points for being one of the most enigmatic songs ever placed on plastic. You May Also Like: Ginger Baker (1939-2019): An Apprecation Jovian Tea, “Strange World” /Read More