Years ago, we would record the soundtrack of our lives on cassette. A blank tape became filled with not only the music that we listened to but also what surrounded that music, the breadth of our experiences. As part of a limited edition, the Chicago-based clarinetist will release her debut album, The Oracle, on cassette tape. It evokes how the album itself was conceived — Angel Bat Dawid overdubbed, mixed, and performed almost all of the voices and instruments herself, and recorded and produced the album mainly on her cell phone as she trekked across the globe. The result is a spiritual opus of one’s refusal to accept the cards that life has dealt her.
After a brain tumor diagnosis halted her music studies at Roosevelt University, Dawid…
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80s synth magic for the four-track mind. DIY outsider 
The booklet coming with 
A new wind reaches the sails of one of yacht rock’s defining masterpieces, courtesy of Omnivore Recordings. The label offer an expanded reissue of the self-titled debut album from Christopher Cross, the unforgettable 1979 release that became a commercial juggernaut and propelled the unlikely star to the music business’ upper echelon. The CD release will feature 11 bonus tracks including the rare non-album single “Mary Ann” and a slew of demos, six of which are made available for the first time anywhere – including several songs never before issued by Cross. (The set uses Bernie Grundman’s impeccable original album master, with engineer Michael Graves restoring the bonus material to prime condition.)
A beautifully curated collection of music, Pōpoloheno: Songs of Resilience & Joy doubles as a powerful moment of acknowledgement of a largely unknown part of African and Hawaiian history. The album addresses the presence and history of African people in Hawaii via traditional mele inoa (name songs), songs of love, songs of heritage and, perhaps most importantly, songs of tribute when it comes to the longevity of the African experience. Pōpoloheno, named after the pōpolo (a black-coloured berry found in Polynesia; also used as a pejorative term against people of African descent), is a compilation of songs and stories that reclaim the term, highlighting the vibrancy and legacy of this community.
Remastered from the original tapes by Matt Colton.
Remastered from the original tapes by Matt Colton.
Few bands have gone to the heart of our country like 
Out of all the former Beatles, 
Rosali makes songs that take their time in revealing their full power. What might appear to be restrained, introspective compositions will stretch slowly outward, snagging your attention with a sideways guitar lead or an exceptionally raw lyric you didn’t catch the first time around. Her softly glowing music is deceptively fluid, able to appear patient and refined at the edge of unraveling.
Following last year’s deluxe expansion of 1974’s Apostrophe (‘) and the recent restoration of the same year’s concert film Cheaper Than Cheep, Frank Zappa’s archival team is turning the page to 1975 and expansively revisiting 
Lodestar is a reissue of the rare 1974 album by the American band Lodestar, released by Numero Group, renowned for its archival projects. The music blends elements of folk-rock, psychedelia, and country, creating an atmospheric sound emblematic of the 1970s underground scene.
…Stax Revue: Live in ’65! expands a pivotal pair of concerts undertaken at the 5-4 Ballroom in Los Angeles 60 summers ago when the Memphis label – newly bolstered by a distribution deal with Atlantic Records – took several of its marquee acts to the West Coast (many for the first time) for a spirited club set packed with favorites by William Bell (“You Don’t Miss Your Water”), Rufus Thomas (“Walking the Dog”), his daughter Carla (“Every Ounce of Strength”) plus bands like Booker T. & The MG’s and Stax house band The Mar-Keys. What made the set’s timing truly striking was that, days after the shows went on from August 7 to 8, the L.A. neighborhood of Watts saw its population rise up to protest the racism and discrimination from the city towards its Black residents.
First released on cassette and then re-released in various guises since then, Live in America captures the mid-’80s incarnation of 
In the shadow of the nuclear accident in Fukushima in 2011, Japanese musician Phew, artist Erika Kobayashi, and German electronic music pioneer Dieter Moebius (Cluster, Harmonia) came together for an extraordinary project. Together, they developed the concept album Radium Girls 2011, which they released in 2012 under the project name Project UNDARK-114 years after the discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie.