‘Air Waves’ is an opportunity to examine two Curved Air eras, their initial incarnation and a 1976 lineup that featured future Police star Stewart Copeland.

Josh Berman follows up a debut album that brilliantly collided the very old with the very new, mainly by expanding the harmonic range of his band. Old Idea, which cleverly retrofitted trad jazz with a healthy dose of Bill Dixon, announced to the world that Chicago is big enough forRead More

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With a mighty swarm of guitar riffs and funky-as-hell vocals, Indian Handcrafts takes to Civil Disobedience for Losers with an attitude that is all too rare in today’s cookie-cutter rock scene. You May Also Like: Gong – Rejoice! I’m Dead! (2016)

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