“It’s a Sad Thing” is a crunchy new blues original by Boo Boo Davis and the ElectroBluesSociety.

Rather than trying to sound exactly like the inspiration, ‘Fanfare For the Uncommon Man: The Official Keith Emerson Tribute Concert’ takes a personal tack.

We’ve long known that guitar ace Wayne Krantz is really good, and now with ‘Music Room 1985’ we know that he was really good at the get-go.

Dan Wilson, Maximo Park, Benjamin Lazar Davis are part of the latest edition of Five for the Road, an occasional look at music that’s been in my car lately.

The Sails are quite the rage across the pond, and ‘Bang!: The Sails Best of 2006 to 2020’ provides the reason why.

‘A Wizard, a True Star … Live!’ begs two questions: Does anybody besides Todd Rundgren completists need it, and will it satisfy that audience?

Here is the video premiere of “Blues Masqué” by the talented Canadian pianist François Bourassa.

Indigenous Lifeforms’ ‘Siberia Extreme’ captures the essence of spiritual, shamanic story-telling, combining very Western improvisation with soaring vocals.

Experiments with combining these two worlds on the fly can be a risky proposition but BLOOP (Lina Allemano and Mike Smith) have it all figured out and the ‘Proof’ is in the pudding.

Toto co-producer CJ Vanston joins Anthony Sonego for the conclusion of a three-part talk, this time discussing his collaborations on 2015’s ‘Toto XIV.’