John Lennon – Walls and Bridges (1974): On Second Thought
John Lennon’s 40-year-old ‘Walls and Bridges’ is long overdue for a critical reevaluation.
John Lennon’s 40-year-old ‘Walls and Bridges’ is long overdue for a critical reevaluation.

“Benny Man’s Blues” lives up to the outsized, genre-bending expectations surrounding a studio pairing of Eric Johnson and Mike Stern.

Brian Charette can’t help putting a refreshingly different spin on things with this delightful, covers-heavy organ trio record.

Rupert Holmes’ ‘Partners in Crime’ album – home to the simply inescapable “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” – was released on October 5, 1979.

Antoine Fafard’s ‘Ad Perpetuum’ is a wonderfully diverse piece of jazz-fusion art.

If you like ‘Kind of Blue,’ then you…uhh…will like ‘Blue’.
Walter Becker aficionado Preston Frazier picks out five instances where the guitarist shined on both Steely Dan and his own solo records.
To celebrate October, autumn and U2’s recent marketing fiasco, here’s a few songs about the death of everyone’s favorite bad penny, rock ‘n’ roll.

Marcin Wasilewski Trio’s ‘Spark of Life’ does absolutely nothing to dispel the ECM stereotype. But so what? Other record companies would kill to be stereotyped like that.

‘Dick’s Picks 15’ was a high-water mark for the second phase of the Grateful Dead’s touring career.