Yusef Lateef was a multi-instrumentalist, writer, professor, and thinker and created a genre of his own called, “autophysiopsychic music.” He led countless bands and made recordings showcasing his study and practice of musics from across the globe. His quartet on this unreleased date from Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase club included pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Bob Cunningham, and drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath; all were present on several of Lateef’s Atlantic recordings during the 1970s. Lateef, a longtime friend and favorite of Segal’s, played the illustrious Jazz Showcase many times. The recordings on Alight Upon the Lake are drawn from a June 1975 residency at JSwere and produced by Zev Feldman and Michael Velasco for George Klabin’s Resonance label. This set…
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The late singer-songwriter revisits his roots on this 2010 set-his first unedited concert recording-from the Chicago venue where he got his start as a young musician.
When John Prine was 14 or 15 his brother Dave took him down to the Old Town School of Folk Music. John’s problem, his brother figured, was a lack of direction. He was interested in gymnastics and art but otherwise just hung around the pool hall. Little by little, Dave was getting him into folk music, teaching him a few chords and playing him Carter Family records. In the early ’60s, the Old Town School was located in a ramshackle storefront on Chicago’s North Avenue, but it had already hosted legends like Pete Seeger, Mahalia Jackson, and Big Bill Broonzy.
Originally released on April 1, 1986, Book of Love introduced a new voice in American electronic pop with enduring classics including “Boy,” “I Touch Roses,” and “You Make Me Feel So Good”.
40 years later, this special anniversary edition has been remastered by its original engineer, Ted Jensen. The album artwork has also been refreshed in collaboration with original art director Nick Egan to honor the anniversary, including a four-page insert featuring outtakes from the iconic photo session with Michael Halsband. Furthermore, in celebration of this milestone release, it features new liner notes by writer and music historian Kurt B. Reighley, who sat down with founding members Susan Ottaviano and Ted Ottaviano to reflect on the album’s creation and its lasting cultural impact.
Wildest Dreams was Turner’s ninth solo album and her first for almost seven years, at the time. It featured the previous year’s Bond theme ‘Goldeneye’, written by Bono and The Edge of U2, as well as collaborations with Pet Shop Boys, Sheryl Crow, Barry White, Sting, and a cover of Massive Attack’s ‘Unfinished Sympathy’.
The super deluxe edition includes the original album remastered, a disc of contemporary B-sides and remixes, the 1996 Wembley Stadium show over two CDs and a Blu-ray featuring a remastered Live In Amsterdam / Wildest Dreams Tour, originally released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1996 and DVD the following year. The booklet features new liner notes from journalist Jason Draper. In the U.K., the album reached #4 and was certified…
After the early-Nineties alt-rock explosion, bands that had made it big in the Eighties largely pulled their hair out trying to fit in. U2 went disco. Guns N’ Roses spent about 25 years chasing Chinese Democracy. And Metallica? Well, they just got weird — and, contrary to popular belief, that wasn’t a bad thing.
Neither of the quartet’s Load albums, released in 1996 and 1997, sound overtly “alt,” since James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett’s riffs owed a greater debt to the blues and Lynyrd Skynyrd than shoegaze or Pixies. But they achieved a simulacrum of “alt,” at least for headbangers, by playing with a looseness that still feels like a rejection of the white-knuckle thrashing that earned them their legend. Hetfield had learned…
Recorded live in April 2025, Vol. 2 – Transmissions West joins Vol. 1 – Transmissions East for a complete record of the two incredible nights spent in Berlin’s Funkhaus.
Don+t Settle is a studio album, yet recorded in front of a live audience. Looking both forward and back, East and West, it’s a retrospective of sorts that showcases some of Glen’s best loved songs and encapsulates the energy Glen is known for as a performer.
“I’ve always been more comfortable on stage than in a studio. I love making records. I love the proces But the song lives before an audience. A song needs witnesses. It’s where I feel like I can really grab hold of it. And know it – the way that it’s meant to be known.
All-star jazz quintet SML assembled their first two albums from live and studio performances, but both efforts were heavily edited and post-produced. Spontaneous Music Live is the group’s first truly live record, capturing two lengthy, unedited improvisations performed at Zebulon in Los Angeles during the group’s residency in December of 2025. While the endless possibilities of the recording studio are just as crucial to the band’s work as their own musicianship, Spontaneous Music Live shows that their chemistry is naturally strong, and they can produce powerful work without the use of studio trickery.
Right from the start, it seems like the group whips a ferocious groove out of thin air on “The Drums.” The rhythms constantly mutate,…
“My Ice Queen” immediately makes its case. A mid-to-low tempo chugging rhythm underpins choppy guitar, a contemplative, distant vocal and a general air of disassociation. Brief sections of the song feature – albeit muted – guitar mangling and feedback. The lyrics tell of a “heartbreak machine, coolest girl you’ve ever seen.” Icy? Absolutely. Then take the similarly restrained “Life Goes on,” so hazy a rumination it seems to have materialised from the mists enveloping Venus.
It isn’t all so crepuscular. “Song for John” – seemingly an elegy for John Lennon – has a gentle bossa nova sway. It’s small-combo, guitar-centred pop at its most lean, most understated. Elsewhere, the airy “Even if” is yet another arresting example of the sometimes buoyant but mostly…
Mark Jenkin is an auteur to an extent rarely attempted by filmmakers. He writes his films, with Mary Woodvine, directs them, shoots them with a clockwork Bolex camera.
His previous feature films, Bait (2019) and Enys Men (2022), created a new sub-genre of hazy Cornish psychedelia – a meeting of Don’t Look Now, Penda’s Fen and Wycliffe. Jenkin’s achievements behind the camera obscure his work as a composer. He created the soundtrack for Enys Men, and now for his most recent film, Rose of Nevada (2025). That involved composing, engineering, producing and performing, uses guitar, synethsizers, percussion, loops and effects.
Rose of Nevada is a strange, sad, beautiful film about a faded Cornish fishing village.
…’Steal Your Face’ has been newly remastered by David Glasser and sourced from the master tapes which were restored and speed-corrected using Plangent Processes.
Grateful Dead’s fifth live album, Steal Your Face, presents the band during a “farewell” run at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom in October of 1974. Feeling the impacts of years of touring, along with the responsibilities involved with incorporating their massive Wall of Sound system into their shows, the Dead went on a hiatus from touring after the five Winterland dates, though they would be gathering just a few months later to begin work on the album Blues for Allah. Along with Steal Your Face being released in 1976, the Winterland shows were documented on film for…
…Bruce Springsteen started off his packed Pittsburgh show with an earnest (but scripted) speech, calling these dangerous times for America, lambasting the current administration and calling for a celebration and defense of American ideals, democracy and the Constitution. For the record, he added a few more of those lengthy diatribes throughout the night. But Springsteen and his E Street Band did their best to channel the “righteous power” of arts, music and rock ‘n’ roll over almost three hours on the group’s Land of Hope & Dreams American tour.
“Tonight we ask all of you to join with us in choosing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law over lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption,…
…freshly remastered from the original analog tapes and includes 4 previously unreleased bonus tracks; “It’s Such a Pretty World Today (Movin’ version),” “Let’s Get Movin’,” “This Town (Film Intro),” and “RC Cola (It’s a Mad Mad Cola)”.
…Without the opportunity to surpass her dad the way Mira Sorvino or Charlie Sheen may have moved beyond Paul Sorvino and Martin Sheen in terms of popularity, Nancy Sinatra deserves credit for a sultry, hip image and the ability to hit a few home runs. It’s easy to hit a home run, of course, when your father owns a piece of the record label, Reprise, and a Rodgers & Hammerstein composition makes its way onto track four, like “Younger Than Springtime,” sung by “a very close relative.” The uncredited Frank Sinatra…
…This expanded edition has been newly remastered from the original tapes and includes five bonus tracks and two additional discs featuring live performances recorded on the ‘Magic Is a Child’ tour at Hofstra University, Long Island and The Community Theater, Phoenix, AZ in October and November 1977.
Magic Is a Child was released in 1977, the debut for new Nektar guitarist Dave Nelson. Carrying on, though, from where their last set left off, Nektar’s fascination with shorter, punchier songs continued unabated, even while the keyboards continued to swell and the guitars shifted ever more toward the symphonic. Nektar’s brightening vistas were new, however, and a fatal flaw as far as their fans were concerned. They didn’t want…
…’Complete B-Sides: 1988-97′ has been remastered from the original analogue tapes and includes an additional six live tracks. The first two – ‘Planet of Sound’ and ‘Tame’ were originally released on the 1991 ‘Alec Empire’ single and were recorded at the band’s 26 July 1991 Brixton Academy gig. The remaining four bonus live tracks – ‘Debaser’, ‘The Holiday Song’. ‘Cactus’ and ‘Nimrod’s Son’ – were first released on the 1989 promo Pixies Live and were recorded on 10 August 1989 at Cabaret Metro, Chicago.
…Originally released on CD in 2001, while the band were almost a decade into a hiatus, Complete B-Sides contained 19 B-sides from the band’s classic 4AD era (1988-1991) and featured beloved Pixies tracks including “Wave of…
Five nights later, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band returned to the World’s Most Famous Arena with their fans’ interests piqued. A fantastic performance was anticipated for their New York finale, especially after increasingly stellar showings in Elmont and Brooklyn, and MSG night one in-between, but there was also hope that this second night in the same venue may bring a setlist change or two, as it had in Inglewood’s Kia Forum in early April. That hope would ultimately be in vain as Springsteen and the E Street Band stayed on course with what they’ve been playing since that second night in Inglewood, meaning they eclipsed the five straight identical setlists between April 7th to April 23rd with this sixth successive show of ‘the same’. That’s something that hadn’t…
While the Beatles were whipping up the initial storms of mania in the U.K., bands in America weren’t just sitting around waiting for something to happen. Contrary to popular belief there were a few burgeoning rock & roll scenes cooking along quite nicely in the colonies. On the West Coast, surf music was riding the waves, while on college campuses across the country bands were cranking out a raucous take on rock & roll mixed with R&B in a style later known as frat rock. The early rumblings of garage rock were being heard in small towns and cities too, creating a vibrant sound that even the mighty Beatles couldn’t wipe out. Cherry Red’s 2026 compilation Steppin’ Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963-1965 digs into these strands of American music, unearthing…