Here is the worldwide premiere of “Them!,” from Curt Syndor’s upcoming release ‘Deep End Shallow,’ on Out of Your Head Records.

Every Necks album is a plot twist in a long-running musical riddle, and ‘Three’ keeps the story very much alive for one of the most singular bands in contemporary music.

Horse Lords make instrumentals that are largely unlike anything you’ve heard before but through clever and deliberate planning, make wildly disparate songs that draw you in all the same.

There’s a roomful of artistic capacity between just Mike Keneally and Scott Schorr. ‘MFTJ’ puts it to good use.

Here is Butcher Brown’s new, smooth-as-a-baby’s-behind rendition of Ronnie Laws’ hypnotic groover from 1975, “Tidal Wave.” Good call for bringing such a fresh jam from the mid-70’s out of obscurity, as Black Moon did a generation ago.

Bassist and producer Paul Bryan’s ‘Cri$sel Gems’ is a very consistently satisfying set of retro-fusion tracks.

Giorgi Mikadze tells a lot about himself on his first record as a leader. He is telling us he’s proud of where he’s from and quite honestly, he’s got plenty to be proud of.

Bobby Previte, Jamie Saft and Nels Cline’s ‘Music From the Early 21st Century’ is, thankfully, not typical of music from the era in which we are living in.

Here is the streaming premiere of “Batida” by the re-formed Chicago Underground Quartet.

Issued 10 years ago this month, ‘Orchestrion’ found Pat Metheny improvising over sounds produced through an intriguing 19th-century contraption.