Cosmopolitanism, scholar Paul Gilroy tells us in his 2004 work After Empire, is a dangerous framework when applied from the top of the power structure downward. Too often, he writes, powerful agents who participate in such “have never paused over the actual history of past imperialism and the ongoing effects of colonial and imperial governance” (66), an eliding of the experiences of those subjected to such – the majority of the world’s population, Gilroy notes.
In the world of reissued 1970s records originating in the Global South, there is no shortage of narratives — and counternarratives — that emerge from cosmopolitan phenomena. Ken Andi Habib, an album by Algerian singer-saxophonist Freh Khodja, has just been rereleased on…
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In 1967 at the peak of the psychedelic movement Vanilla Fudge bursts through the open gates with a giant battering ram and gave the early beginnings of both hard rock and progressive rock like a stick of dynamite that’s ready to explode. They had released five studio albums from Atlantic’s sub-label ATCO records from 1967 to 1969, mending the sounds of pop, soul, and blues into a powder-keg with a brand of a psychedelic aura, waiting to be unveiled.
Soul music has always been in 
Bureau B once again dive into the Sky archive, unearthing another overlooked masterpiece long due for rediscovery. Originally released in 1985, Voyage finds 
…Originally issued on CD in 2003 and unavailable for some years, this new edition has been remastered and expanded to include two previously unreleased tracks recorded in a session for Pennine Radio in 1978.
…remastered by Mark Wingfield and includes two bonus tracks, recorded in Tokyo, Japan, on August 10, 2003.
…5CD 83 track box set rounds up all of punk legends Peter & The Test Tube Babies releases throughout the 90s.
The Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band concert at Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 18, 2025, was part of the “Land of Hope and Dreams Tour”. “Trapped” returns to the set; “Atlantic City” rotates in. 2025 additions “Rainmaker,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” (performed solo acoustic), and the show-closing cover of Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom” all appear.
Remastered by Technology Works.
One listen to 
…re-mixed by the legendary Sylvia Massy (Prince, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty)
…3CD deluxe edition offers B-sides & rarities (including seven previously unreleased tracks) on the second disc and remixes on the third.
Once upon a time, being in a rock band meant, ipso facto, being in a cover band. There are still plenty of cover bands, of course, but the Beatles and especially punk helped move it from being the default. Still, mastering other people’s material before embarking upon one’s own presents its own sort of artistic challenge. Can a group make those songs resemble the originals while still putting their own stamp on them? And can they do it for an entire set?
3CD anthology of recordings from British harmony pop maestro John Carter and friends under their flower-power era guise The Flower Pot Men. Includes Summer of Love hit ‘Let’s Go to San Francisco’, further 45s (some using alternative period aliases), two unreleased-at-the-time concept albums and several tracks now gaining their first-ever issue.
Bill Rieflin’s ride cymbal ushers in the rhythm of a song that Ian Wallace first played in 1971 and loved to do so because, as he said, “I got to play all my Tony Williams stuff.” While Bill takes the lead role initially during the intro and Mel’s solo, he switches to Mellotron for the guitar solo. And what a guitar solo!