Gone now almost 20 years, Laura Branigan’s impact went far beyond ’80s-era Top 10 singles like “Gloria,” “Solitaire” and “Self Control.”

Mark Anthony K joined Preston Frazier as Projekt Gemineye moves on from the ‘In the Year 3073’ series with ‘What Lies Beyond.’

There’s no one like Carl Weingarten and his new retrospective ‘The Simian River Collection’ will make you like his music, like no one else’s.

‘Blue Room: The 1979 Vara Studio Sessions in Holland’ captures the trumpet icon Chet Baker playing in peak form in this long-lost treasure now finally released by Zev Feldman’s Jazz Detective label.

Guitarist Vernon Reid joined Something Else! to discuss Living Colour’s strikingly inventive debut ‘Vivid,’ which arrived 35 years ago today.

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

Nick Finzer joined Preston Frazier to discuss ‘Dreams, Visions, Illusions,’ his sixth album as a band leader.

Recorded 50 years ago, Gram Parsons’ ‘Grievous Angel’ was an artistic triumph even though it never climbed higher than No. 195 on Billboard’s album chart.

Adrian Belew has worked with Frank Zappa, the Talking Heads, the (wonderful!) Bears and, of course, with King Crimson – but this is his one-man show.

Dan Rosenboom finds a powerful conduit for his creative ideas from an all-star quintet, enabling him to fulfill the promise of all of his compositions with the no-compromises ‘Polarity.’