One can almost imagine the hypothetical 2025 tour reviews: “To hear him in person, you would never imagine Milton Keanes must be pushing age 80. He zips across the keys with abandon like a man half that age, matched by his equally spry bandmates keeping up with every gallop. The trio continually whips up a storm, defying any age and fit for any time.”
Or so it would be fun to picture, if you enjoy playing along with the fictitious Jazz Sabbath background story. The “official” legend posits that the iconic early Black Sabbath catalogue was originally stolen from a short-lived 1960s underground jazz trio, which belatedly reemerged in the 2010s to present the music the way it was always meant to sound. It remains…
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Compiling music from throughout continental Europe during the height of psychedelia and progressive rock, 
…digital release with 7 bonus songs.
A recording consisting solely of the sound of water droplets? As the practice of field recordings continues to expand and extend in to multiple forms of music, that notion is not as odd as it once might have seemed. But this reissue of Shizukutachi by Japanese sound artist 
On November 1, 2024, The Cure released 
Not to be confused with Stranger Things: The WSQK Collection — a fun, in-world treat from the same season — this official soundtrack for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things includes much of the same that fans have come to expect: beloved classics and forgotten throwbacks that tie neatly into the plot of the show. While there’s no big “Running Up That Hill” moment here, the mixtape feel of the track selections makes it a decent compilation. One can imagine — if one is old enough — sitting in front of a boombox with the pause and record buttons compressed, waiting for just the right moment to bridge an early Michael Jackson gem with a Tiffany smash hit. Meanwhile, ABBA, Bowie, and Iron Maiden weave seamlessly with Pixies, Butthole Surfers,…
A live album capturing their first Japan tour in 2005, realized 33 years after their formation, is finally being officially released 20 years after the recording!
To parse the logic of 
The guys who make up the country group 
Subtle and sleepy, gentle and resonant, Eric Thompson’s shimmering take on country-rock takes Nashville’s emotive vocal style, throws in a pedal steel and rootsy rock riffs, and turns out a dusty, feel-good – if slightly too slick – album called 
Numero present ’90s shoegaze band Should’s ’98 debut ‘Feed Like Fishes’ + 10 period bonus tracks.
…This expanded reissue adds 8 songs recorded at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA, a few months after the album sessions. These sessions provided playfully experimental B sides to the album’s singles, two cover songs (the New Order cover “Your Silent Face,” and a Beach Boys cover) for a single on Merge Records, and a compilation track.