Vinyl-on-demand presents the definitive excavation of Bryn Jones’ formative years with Complete Oblique 1980-1983, a comprehensive 7LP/7CD box set that collects every recording from the pre-Muslimgauze era. This extraordinary archaeological document captures one of experimental music’s most prolific figures in the crucial period before his transformation into the underground legend we know today. Between 1980 and 1983, working under the moniker E.g Oblique Graph, Jones was assembling what would become one of experimental music’s most singular vocabularies through minimal electronic pieces built from synths and tape manipulations. This collection gathers all three impossible-to-find cassettes originally released on “Kinematograph Tapes”…
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…Iconoclassic reissued the first two albums by Happy the Man: their 1977 self-titled debut and 1978’s Crafty Hands, originally released on the Arista label. (HTM have become prog’s Taylor Swift of sorts, securing the master rights to these albums themselves to license to the label.) Formed in Harrisonburg, Virginia, the group was influenced by European prog groups like Yes, Gentle Giant and Genesis – but created a sound all their own that expanded the constraints of the genre further through the west.
When 
On November 6, 2018, trumpeter 
To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 is the first full-length release by a British artist to appear on International Anthem, but even a single listen makes it clear why the Chicago-based label was drawn to it: however much these eleven pieces by Manchester-born, London-based tenor saxophonist 
Over the past few years Acid Jazz has been the proud custodian of the legendary Albarika Store label, which produced some of the finest, deepest West African cuts of the last century. The mainstay of the Albarika sound was the mighty T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, who were prolific throughout the label’s activity from the late ‘60s to the early ’80s.
At some point, one might ask which veteran jazz musicians did not play in the “university of jazz” called Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Familiar names abound through this review, but so many more go unmentioned. Here we present a short-lived version of a group deep into Blakey’s fourth decade. We associate Blakey’s great records mostly with the ‘50s and ‘60s, but 
A 20th anniversary edition of the album, pair the original album (featuring favorites “She’s Hearing Voices,” “Helicopter,” “So Here We Are” and “Banquet”) with 23 B-sides and rarities, including nine unreleased demos and live cuts.
American Aquarium dropped their 
Toyah’s 1994 studio album was recorded with Salisbury band Friday Forever and includes eight re-recordings of classic Toyah material and six original compositions. CD1 adds four tracks of which three are previously unreleased. This includes demos of album tracks Invisible Love and Lu$t For Love, first recorded in 1992 with Kiss Of Reality.
Toyah’s 1991 solo album 
…John Belushi’s widow Judy Belushi Pisano recently rediscovered the live album, which features 13 previously unreleased recordings. The musicians backing up “Joliet” Jake E. Blues and Elwood J. Blues (Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, respectively) are the original band members, a who’s who of notable soul men and bluesmen: members of Booker T. and the M.G.’s, the Bar-Kays, Howlin’ Wolf’s band, and the Saturday Night Live band at the time, including Steve Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Matt Murphy, and Paul Shaffer. The set list includes songs that appeared on the group’s 1978 album, Briefcase Full of Blues.
The Raspberries blazed briefly but brightly.
Self-described “indie groove” outfit Goose employs a dynamic, genre-blending sound rooted in American traditional rock, jazz, funk, folk, and progressive rock. Drawing inspiration from jam band legends like Phish, Grateful Dead, and Umphrey’s McGee, the band quickly rose through the ranks of the scene, maintaining a prolific live performance schedule and releasing a steady stream of concert albums (2024’s Live at the Greek Theater) and studio efforts (Shenanigans Nite Club (2021), Dripfield (2022), and Chain Yer Dragon (2025).
…Following last year’s set 1976 – chronicling the breakthrough albums Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox – the Irish band release ’74-’75, a deep dive into Nightlife and Fighting. The 7CD box set chronicles the making of those two seminal albums which were the first to feature the “classic” quartet line-up with guitarists Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson joining frontman/bassist Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey.
…features the complete original record remastered by David Grisman, plus outtakes and alternate versions (including two previously unreleased tracks) from Dawg’s vault.