Drummer Cindy Blackman Santana‘s boundaryless, organic musical perspective is informed by decades of experience. Once a busker in New York, she began her career with Wallace Roney during the mid-1980s and released Arcane, her first leader date, in 1988. She’s released 14 more albums under her own name and collaborated with Jacky Terrasson, Charnett Moffett, and others as well as pop musicians like Lenny Kravitz, Joss Stone, and husband Carlos Santana. Her catalog also lists two tributes to mentor and influence Tony Williams and his Lifetime ensembles: Another Lifetime in 2010 and 2012’s Spectrum Road. The 80-minute Coherence figures more in the electrified jazz vein of those two outings. It was recorded (mostly) live in the studio as…
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New York’s Prison are nebulous at best, a loose and ever-changing collective of players who consistently produce some of outsider rock’s most freaked-out jams, regardless of who’s taking part. There are key contributors like Endless Boogie’s Paul Major, Liquor Store’s Sarim Al-Rawi, and multi-instrumentalist Matt Lilly, but different sessions find them joined by various like-minded heads making for different shades of psychedelic intensity on each new record.
Prison’s third long-player, Big Rigs on the BQE, is the product of a recording date in 2024 that included percussionist Ryan Sawyer and Sic Alps’ Mike Donovan adding fuzz-saturated organ to the mix, along with former Prison-staffers Matt Leibowitz and Adam Reich also adding…
…the 2CD edition adds rare live recordings and early demos on CD2.
…The London-based three-piece, led by Brian Molko, caused a stir in the mid-’90s with a couple of singles on indies (‘Bruise Pristine’ on a Fierce Panda split 7” and ‘Come Home’ on Deceptive) before signing to Virgin subsidiary Hut. Placebo’s glammed-up image, post-grunge riffs and Molko’s distinctive vocals (not to mention the singer’s talent for promotion) quickly earnt them a besotted fanbase and in 1997 they broke through, with the spikey and sassy ‘Nancy Boy’ reaching No 4 in the singles chart and helping their debut album to go platinum.
Thirty years on, the band have returned to Placebo to give the album’s 10 tracks, plus…
…new 50th anniversary 2CD expansion of The Flamin’ Groovies’ 1976 Sire debut is built around a new remaster of the original album from the analog tapes. The bonus disc adds previously unreleased outtakes and alternates as well as the existing audio from a Roxy show in ’76.
A lot had happened with the Flamin’ Groovies in the nearly five years that separated the epochal Teenage Head album and their return to American record racks with Shake Some Action. The Groovies lost their record deal with Buddah; lead singer Roy Loney had quit the band, leaving Cyril Jordan as the uncontested leader; and they had spent a lot of time in Europe, building a significant following in the United Kingdom. As a result, the Flamin’ Groovies on Shake Some Action…
A new album from US psychedelic rock legends Dead Meadow! Foundlings is a seven-track collection that delves deep into the band’s archives, spanning over two decades of sessions, tributes, and unreleased gems.
This rare collection promises to shed light on the band’s evolution and features previously unheard material showcasing their unique ability to channel classic influences, from Sabbath-inspired heaviness to shimmering, Cure-like textures, through their own hazy lens. It also serves as a tribute to bassist and founding member Steve Kille, who passed away two years ago after a long battle with cancer.
Foundlings is set to become essential listening for long-time fans and newcomers alike. It arrives as the band continues to cement…
Originally released in 1979, Low Budget marked a pivotal late career high point for The Kinks with a tougher, arena-ready sound. It became one of the band’s strongest U.S. releases and remains a defining album of their late 70s period.
This 2026 edition has been newly remastered from the original production sources, delivering improved clarity, balance, and dynamic range while preserving the character of the original mix. Tracks including “(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman,” “Catch Me Now I’m Falling,” and the title track benefit from a more detailed and focused presentation.
Originally released in 1981, Give the People What They Want continued The Kinks’ early 80s run with a direct, guitar-driven sound and pointed, contemporary themes.
Built around the concise proverb “Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”, In a Glass House stands as one of Gentle Giant’s most daring artistic statements. The saying warns against hypocrisy and hasty judgment, and in many ways, it mirrors the band’s own refusal to compromise or conform. Gentle Giant was the quintessential under‑the‑radar progressive rock band, fearlessly blending hard rock, medieval motifs, odd time signatures, classical structures, and sudden left‑turns that kept listeners constantly on edge.
By the time they released their fourth studio album, Octopus, in 1972, internal pressures were mounting. Phil Shulman left the band the following year, worn down by touring demands and strained family dynamics.
The Nimrods soundtrack features 22 of your favorite career-spanning Green Day songs plus soundtrack exclusives “I’m Never Gonna R.I.P” and four unreleased live songs the band recorded at the Palladium in Los Angeles featured in the movie. Additionally, the soundtrack has songs from The Paradox, Ultra Q and Mckenna Grace plus four tracks from Analog Dogs, the fictitious band “Nimrods” centers around.
The Nimrods film will hit theaters on August 14. Developed by writer/director Lee Kirk with Green Day and produced by Tim Perell, Nimrods is a coming-of-age story about three friends (Mason Thames, Kylr Coffman and Ryan Foust) who journey to Los Angeles, mistakenly believing that their band is opening for Green Day on New Year’s Eve.
Austin’s The Black Drumset isn’t just a band, it’s an experiment. Brian Wiley has released three studio recordings since 2009 and the latest, Friends in Dark Places was carefully crafted over the course of seven years, its seven songs are full-bodied trips into the nexus between interstellar intrigue and carnal rhythms. With droning keyboards as copiously applied as the droning guitars, it’s the drums, other percussion, and Wiley’s mesmerizingly monotone vocals that provide a solid center. “Everything turns in time/ See my place in this life/ Every place, every time/ Beauty, hope, peace of mind,” he sings, offering a reassurance that gives way to an extended, entrancing jam.
Wiley’s music radiates a calm, justified…
Take that, AI. Sure, your favorite tech bro’s favorite plagiarism machine can Frankenstein together bits and pieces from every genre and era of music past; but never forget: Every limb, organ and cell of that monster was dead to begin with.
But Nu Jazz, an unruly conglomeration of abstract creators from across the spectrum of New York City’s underground and experimental music scenes, create their hybrids the old-fashioned way: they throw these living, breathing musics into a room together, shut off the lights, and let nature take its messy, delirious course. The results may be unpredictable, they may wear the name “mutant” as a blessing and a curse, they almost certainly will end up ugly to most unadventurous eyes; but they will thrive with visceral, rabid life.
01. Martyn Lenoble & Christian Eigner feat. Mark Lanegan & Dave Gahan – Cat People (Putting…
02. Supersuckers – Never Let Me Down Again
03. The Stooges – Dirt
04. Johnny Marr – I Feel You
05. Vince Clarke & Ane Brun – Fly On…
06. Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown
07. The Soulsavers – San Quentin Blues
08. Nouvelle Vague – Enjoy the Silence
09. Fad Gadget – Back to Nature
10. The Normal – T.V.O.D.
11. Cabaret Voltaire – Spread the Virus
12. Front 242 – Headhunter
13. Sunroof – Conspiracies
14. LFO – Freak
15. Blind Willie Johnson – John the Revelator
To celebrate 50 years since the formation of Rainbow and the release of the debut album Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Demon Music present a comprehensive box set covering the years 1975-1976.
As well as including the seminal first two studio album, the box set includes a trilogy of live albums from Rainbow’s debut world tour and documenting the band’s first shows in Europe with shows from Cologne, Dusseldorf and Nurnberg. The final disc of this 9 disc set features a multitude of rare mixes, edits and studio rehearsal performances all newly mastered by Andy Pearce & Matt Wortham.
…Rainbow was initially formed as a Ritchie Blackmore solo project in the early months of 1975, after a Deep Purple tour of the previous…
“Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends.” Famously uttered by bassist-guitarist Greg Lake, those words encapsulate the theatricality, thrills, breadth, and fascination surrounding Brain Salad Surgery — Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s fourth studio album. Originally released in late 1973, it finds the trio taking front-to-back control of its situation and incorporating several studio firsts. The platinum-certified effort also stands as one of the greatest prog-rock feats in history. Its cohesive blend of musicianship, songwriting, and production set a standard that, decades later, remains revered amid fans and critics alike.
Mastered at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab’s California studio, the reissue label’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD of Brain Salad Surgery presents…
Few archival releases feel as genuinely worthwhile as this newly expanded edition of The Autumn Stone. Originally assembled and released by Immediate Records in 1969 without the band’s involvement, the compilation has long occupied an unusual place in the Small Faces catalogue. While it introduced listeners to some of the group’s finest work, it never truly reflected how the band wanted its music to be presented. More than five decades later, that finally changes.
Curated by drummer Kenney Jones to mark the 60th anniversary of Immediate Records, the 2025 deluxe edition transforms The Autumn Stone from a posthumous compilation into a thoughtfully restored retrospective. Rather than simply remastering the original album…
Amigos has been beloved for decades by both long-time and recent Santana admirers, with multiple generations of fans drawn in by the record’s contagious blend of R&B, Latin, rock, and funk elements. As well as its immense accessibility. Coming off a series of albums that heavily leaned into jazz fusion, the band returns to the more dynamic and concise approaches of its earlier works without losing the sense of adventurousness, craftsmanship, and virtuosity that turned it into a juggernaut embraced by both the mainstream and experimentally minded communities.
The enhanced aural perspectives extend not only to Carlos Santana’s intoxicating fills and solos, but to the rich tapestry of the rhythmic, melodic, and vocal elements that help Amigos…
Foreigner released its new live album, In the Eye of the Storm, via Green Hill/Sun Records/Virgin Records. The album serves as the official soundtrack to the band’s concert film, recorded September 6 and 7, 2025 at Ellis Island and the Dumbo House in Brooklyn, and features original members Lou Gramm and Al Greenwood alongside former vocalist Kelly Hansen and current lead singer Luis Maldonado.
A video for ‘I Want to Know What Love Is,’ featuring performances from Gramm, Greenwood, and Hansen, was also released alongside the album.
The project marks part of Foreigner’s 50th anniversary, with a feature film produced by Vertigo Live Productions set to arrive in theaters worldwide in fall 2026.
REZN create psychedelic music both retro and modern, occasionally experimental but largely streamlined. It’s space rock and stoner rock with hints of Americana and prog; Sky Valley-via-Sacramento with a not-so-final destination of Live at Pompeii, though the band is from Chicago. If 2024’s breakout album Burden sounded like an ominous transmission from the cosmic depths, then Cycles in the Infinite Dream trades outer space for inner space, recalibrating those hostile frequencies in favor of a heaviness that registers as more organic, more human.
REZN guitarist/vocalist Rob McWilliams leads the way with smooth vocals somewhere in the rarefied air between Chino Moreno and Failure’s Ken Andrews. His high-flying melodies on…
A founder of the jazz rock group Isotope, Gary Boyle embarked on a solo career in 1977 and recorded his debut album ‘The Dancer’ later that year. The recording sessions saw Boyle joined by such celebrated alumni as Robin Lumley, Rod Argent, Dave MacRae, Morris Pert and Simon Phillips. The resulting album was first released on Gull Records in 1978 and is now regarded as a classic in the jazz rock genre.
Boyle’s follow-up album was ‘Electric Glide’ and saw him joined by special guest guitarist Gary Moore (then with Colosseum II), along with contributions from Robert Awhai, Simon Phillips, John Giblin and Pete Jacobsen. ‘Electric Glide’ was met with acclaim and rightfully placed Gary Boyle among the great jazz rock players.
VA – Where the Willow and the Dogwood Grow: Words and Music By Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan (2026)
With undeniable cultural gravity, the team of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan join luminaries such as Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Randy Newman, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazlewood, Brian Wilson and Laura Nyro in Ace Records’ long-running series of multi-artist compilations celebrating the great American songwriters of the modern era. Hundreds of artists from all walks of music have recorded songs from Waits and Brennan’s matchless catalogue, 19 of the finest of which comprise this hand-picked selection, including many chosen by the songwriters themselves.
Few artists have remapped the terrain of popular music, and culture at large, like Tom Waits. Over the course of five decades…
…include the remastered album plus two discs of rarities, including previously unreleased tracks, B-sides, demos, acoustic recordings, covers, live performances and BBC sessions.
In the two years that followed the release of their debut album, Keane established themselves as a promising part of the mainstream rock canon. Hit singles like “Somewhere Only We Know,” “Bedshaped,” and “Everybody’s Changing” made Hopes and Fears a transatlantic hit, earning the trio two Brit Awards, a Grammy nomination, and a host of sold-out world tours. Critics deemed them as likeable and as accessible as Coldplay, but Keane’s return isn’t as buoyant as their initial introduction, even if it keeps melody at the forefront. Whereas Hopes and Fears faced…