Something Else! sneak peek: MoeTar, “Regression to the Mean” from Entropy of the Century (2014)
Does a song have to be repetitive and elementary to work? MoeTar says: No.
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Darius Jones + Matthew Shipp – The Darkseid Recital (2014)
Unpredictability and real passion characterizes ‘The Darkseid Recital’ as a whole, just as it did for Jones’ and Shipp’s amazing ‘Cosmic Lieder’, but those things are magnified from doing it from the stage. That’s the perfect way to follow up on that earlier, acclaimed duet.
‘I’m still kind of shocked and delirious’: Nils Lofgren goes inside his personal new box set
This hand-picked nine-CD, one-DVD collection arrives today.
The Paul and John – Inner Sunset (2014)
The John and Paul are pop-rock gourmets with impeccable taste and timing.
Something Else! sneak peek: Yes, “Your Move/All Good People” from Songs From Tsongas: The 35th Anniversary Concert (2014)
This arrives at the perfect moment. Once more, there are no sides.
One Track Mind: Keith Richards and Friends, “Words of Wonder/Get Up Stand Up” (2014)
This charity single deftly combines a Richards deep cut with a reggae classic.
Ricardo Tejero/Marco Serrato/Borja Díaz – Sputnik Trio (2014)
ree-form jazz doesn’t need to go on for mind-numbingly lengths if the musicians know what they’re doing. The Sputnik Trio have this all figured out.
Steely Dan Sunday, “Mr. Sam” (1975, unreleased)
It’s everything one would expect from a song of the mid-Jurassic period of Steely Dan.
Interstatic – Arise (2014)
The rougher edges of the guttural ‘Arise’ revisits the period when jazz and rock collisions created explosive music and rekindles the old magic with new vigor.
The Beatles, “I’ll Cry Instead,” A Hard Day’s Night (1964): Deep Beatles
This song shows where John Lennon would go as a Beatle, and as a solo artist.
