Alison Moyet’s return to a synthpop has been triumphal — a culmination of everything she began as part of Yaz.

Omer Avital’s ‘New Song’ is a finely crafted synthesis of Middle Eastern, Afro-Cuban and American soul-jazz that’s world music without being self-consciously so.

Whatever their faults, these two Wings albums remain amiable artifacts from a moment of deep domesticity for Paul McCartney.

Elsewhere, Neil Young’s Storytone might exceed its own grasp, might try to do too much. But not this song.

A recommended entry point for anyone who came to Genesis via the MTV era hits, and is now curious about what came before.

Scott (Belmo) Belmer’s scrapbook retrospective ‘The Beatles Invade Cincinnati’ captures the hysteria surrounding Beatlemania.

James McMurtry has never sounded more visceral, more close up and present.

“It was not just John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd,” Steve Cropper says of the Blues Brothers.

Here is a review of ‘Nax,’ a free-jazz trumpet/bass encounter between Natsuki Tamura and Alexander Frangenheim.

“The first song I ever tried to sing in public was one of his songs,” the Eagles’ Don Henley says. “He was my biggest hero.”