Preston Frazier’s mid-year new music survey includes Best of 2019 candidates Bernard Fowler, Grupo Fantasma and Oz Noy, among others.

Unlike the preceding track on Toto’s ‘Mindfields,’ “Selfish” succeeds because it gets to the musical point without wasting a note.

Geoff Tate’s collaboration with Sweet Oblivion may be the closest thing we’ve gotten to the classic Queensryche sound since 1990.

Released 10 years ago today, Son Volt’s ‘American Central Dust’ found Jay Farrar asking questions – and being OK when he didn’t always get answers.

Tom Pierson’s ‘Last Works’ features some of the best and most listenable music with a traditional bias I have heard for a long time.

Robert Lamm’s “I’d Rather Be Rich” had been sitting around in the vaults for several years before it made the ‘Chicago XIV’ album.

Whit Dickey uses his drums not to merely set a rhythmic pulse of the song, but the spiritual pulse, too.

We’ve covered a lot of music by drummer Scott Amendola and trumpet player Shane Endsley but the two never crossed paths in this space … until now.

Despite languishing for decades, “Leave My Kitten Alone” showed how the Beatles could reshape songs to fit a new, harder-rocking sound.

Combining fragments from Jon Anderson with contemporary Billy Sherwood production touches, Yes’ “Somehow, Someday” works on several levels.