If I can’t have a Savatage reunion, here’s hoping that Archon Angel keeps the magic alive.

You never know what to expect from a new Brandon Seabrook album, aside from that it’s guaranteed to be way outside the bounds of normal. ‘Exultations’ is certainly that.

Danielia Cotton’s six-song EP ‘A Different War’ is as hard-charging and personal as anything in her career. She’s not pulling any punches.

Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s ‘Roy Ayers JID 002′ does a great job of showing the timelessness of Roy Ayers’ 70s music with a message for people of the present.

Veteran drummer and novice record label entrepreneur Whit Dickey finds ways to keep things fresh, this time with a new trio for ‘Expanding Light.’

A striking synthesis of folk, classical, pop and rock, ‘Year of the Cat’ deftly demonstrated Al Stewart’s ability to craft literate songs.

By applying today’s sound processing technology to hand-made music that was conceived instantly, Adam Rudolph magnifies the exotic musical concepts of himself and his longtime partners and collaborators Hamid Drake and Ralph M. Jones.

With Neil Podgurski and Brian Settles by Chad Taylor’s side, ‘The Daily Biological’ manages to cover a lot of fertile ground found in Taylor’s artistry.

For the first time ever I leave an Alestorm album not with a big grin and a desire to hoist the Jolly Roger, but actually kind of bummed.

With the sympathetic backing of ElectroBluesSociety, ‘Chicago Blues Covers’ fans the blues flame like only Boo Boo Davis can do it.