Edward Simon’s ‘Venezuela: Latin American Songbook Vol. 2’ features intimate, unhurried and deeply grounded music that breathes with the cadence of memory.

Bruce Springsteen has said he hoped his music could encourage positive passions of the moment. Based on the tour’s first night, he is surpassing all goals.

With ‘The Woods,’ the sagacious guitarist from Maine Ryan Blotnick has consolidated all his strengths into his most consistent effort yet.

Two experimental electronic music pioneers who also happen to be analog musicians at heart create an endlessly fascinating assemblage of artificial sounds rooted in human artistic instincts.

Released 55 years ago this month, the instantly familiar ‘Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon’ meant James Taylor wouldn’t go down as a one-shot wonder.

Mark Wade’s ‘New Stages’ is simply unclassifiable. Record stores might not like that, but listeners do because there is something for every musical palette.

Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project’s ‘The Longest Way Round’ plays like a passport filled to capacity, moving seamlessly through genres and rhythms.

Here is “Like Swimwear (part one),” the advance single from Jeff Parker ETA IVtet’s upcoming album ‘Happy Today.’

Released 20 years ago this month, David Gilmour’s ‘On An Island’ reconnected with an early Pink Floyd sound – and gave us a road map to ‘The Endless River.’

Stephen Godsall’s fun, experimental ‘Tingling Skin, Buzzing Wires’ proves the banjo fits just fine into an ensemble. Along the way, he elevates this humble instrument to new heights.