Frank Zappa’s ‘Joe’s Garage’ is a great introduction into the quantum sonics of one of the 20th century’s greatest composers.

Mike Keneally’s chief idiom is progressive rock, but his restless creativity leads to guitar solos that shape shift. That’s why I can listen to him all day long.

The Pixies’ seminal ‘Surfer Rosa’ revived rock music 35 years ago with a sound that was somehow both chaotic and cohesive.

“Funky Nothingness’ is not to be missed by Frank Zappa fans, particularly those fascinated by the arcs of his compositional and soloing evolution.

Stylistic influences aside, Jim White’s ‘(The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted) Wrong-Eyed Jesus!’ is honest, original, un-glossed country at its best.

The second of Park Chan-Wook’s Vengeance Trilogy, ‘Oldboy’ combines beauty and perversion, horror and grace with unprecedented virtuosity.

A truism of comedy is that jokes generally have short built-in life spans. Yet decades later, Bill Hicks remains almost inexhaustibly re-listenable.

Somehow already gone more than 25 years, Jeff Buckley seemed to have been born with one foot already rooted in the beyond.

Arthur Rimbaud and William S. Burroughs shaped the evolution of rock, and then each rebellious leap and plunge into more experimental music.

‘Voortvlugtend,’ from South African cult-favorite Buckfever Underground, simply begs for repeated listening – preferably wearing big, scruffy earphones.