Category: rock


Donald Fagen’s Kamakiriad would be notable if only for the fact the album marks a full-on reunion of the two principal Steely Dan staples more than a decade after they splintered. For all the creative sparks and thrilling musicianship that result from the long-awaited regrouping of Fagen and Walter Becker, the 1993 record remains significant for many other reasons — from the hopeful narrative to the sharp playing, adventurous arrangements, and crisp production. More than 30 years later, those facets coalesce like never before on this reference-quality reissue.
Sourced from the original masters, mastered by engineer Rob LoVerde, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD presents the Grammy-nominated Kamakiriad with expansive…

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Edena Gardens unleash their most expansive work to date. Quintessence is structured in 4 parts as a Magnum Opus—the ancient alchemical process of transformation. But this is not a work of high fantasy. It is a seismic meditation. A study of deep time, weighted matter, and the crushing gravity of change.
Quintessence is massive. 79+ minutes of tethered magnitude, carved into six sprawling tracks. The trio pushes further down into the void, discovering new dimensions. Each piece allow the form to stretch. To break its own boundaries. Shifting terrains and unpredictable geometry. The core remains unhurried: A slow, relentless, unabridged crawl. This sort of alchemy demands patience, allowing every sonic mutation…

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A new Digital Deluxe Edition of Woodcut, complete with demos of each track from the album, as well as two live acoustic tracks.
Big Big Train, the award-winning, progressive rock band, issue their 16th studio album. Woodcut is a landmark release for the international group, whose line-up draws together members from England, Scotland, Italy, the USA, Sweden and Norway, in that it marks their first ever full-length conceptual piece. “The story isn’t set in any particular timeframe, but it’s about The Artist, who is struggling with life,” founding member Gregory Spawton begins. “He takes a stroll and finds this piece of heartwood and creates something that he considers beautiful and different. Maybe it’s a dream or maybe it’s real life…

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An abandoned cathedral. A gruesome murder. A powerful supernatural entity living in the catacombs. It all comes to a head in downtown Los Angeles. What will happen and who will live to tell the tale? Such is the storyline of Cathedral, the thrilling new album and terrifying graphic novel from director and musician John Carpenter, based on a dream Carpenter had in 2024.
Cathedral has all the drama, dark atmosphere, and frenetic pacing of a classic heavy metal record. Especially designed as the soundtrack to the graphic novel, each track corresponds to a specific section of the book. The liner notes included with the album packaging feature prompts for each track, creating a fully interactive experience. Combined with the graphic novel,…

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Music ebbs and flows, as MISSIO are only too aware. As a duo, Matthew Brue and David Butler have completed six records together, with Love & Heartbreak being the richest in form and purpose. This project, as an entity, is rich with references to mortality, degradation, and inner turmoil. In terms of it being a sonic experience, Love & Heartbreak is strikingly different from previous MISSIO records; a visceral rollercoaster burning with energy on all sides.
“I will make you beg for self-deprecation,” the singer shouts on “Self Deprecation”, sharp keyboards rattling behind the glass-cut vocal. The amorous affection in “You Are My Love” is alluded to in its melodic counterpoints, a Wagnerian backdrop. The term “tender” is…

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CD 83-track box set tracing the development of indie music from the height of the Britpop explosion in 1995 through its aftershocks to the post-Britpop period in 1999, on the cusp of the new millennium. This box continues the story of indie/Britpop from Cherry Red’s Popscene: From Baggy to Britpop 1989-1994.
…1995 was the year that Britpop exploded into mainstream consciousness due to the infamous Blur vs Oasis chart battle that was even covered on the national News at Ten. Both bands had already scored UK number one albums in 1994 but going head-to-head in the singles chart ensured maximum media coverage. Their success focussed attention on a revolution in music that included acts such as Elastica, Paul Weller,…

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When Jerry Joseph and his band, The Jackmormons, released Panther Tracks, Vol. 1, last year, he suggested that there was enough material for probably four records. Here is the second one, Panther Tracks, Vol. 2 (Cavity Search Records). These are fan-favorite songs, rendered in the studio, as Dave Schools of Widespread Panic suggested a few years ago. The second installment of this four-volume series, like the first, went to drummer/producer Steve Drizos, who helmed the recording with the band and guests at The Panther studio in Portland, OR, not losing an ounce of ‘live’ energy in the process. The six original songs, all written at different points in Joseph’s four-decade career, were released as a subscription service for fans through Joseph’s website.

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Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux picked the band’s September 26, 1991 show at Boston Garden for release as Dave’s Picks Volume 59.
…the new collection features the most recent Grateful Dead concert date ever selected for the long-running live archival series.
Keyboardist Bruce Hornsby had been touring with the band for a year by the time the Grateful Dead arrived in Boston for a sold-out six-night run in September 1991. The two-keyboard iteration of the lineup — Hornsby and Vince Welnick along with bassist Phil Lesh, guitarists Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann — would remain intact through Hornsby’s departure the following March.
Dave’s Picks Volume 59 features the complete,…

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The songs come trailing jets of psychedelic blues, the singing tamped down to a smoke-haloed whisper, hard rock in a liminal space. Tiger Bear Wolf, out of Greensboro, NC, distills ZZ Top, Kyuss, Sabbath and Om into a seething mesh of guitar-heavy mysticism.
This third album — 15 years delayed with some material over 20 years old — reaches back to an earlier musical era, when hairy dudes and feedback and boogie-ing blues vamps still figured prominently in the culture. Songs nod to late 1970s, early 1980s heavy metal a la Deep Purple or Blue Cheer, or later on, to the Stoner rock revival of the early 1990s that birthed QOTSA.
Tiger Bear Wolf dates to the Bush II era, taking shape in 2002, as art rock glittered and…

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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…

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…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…

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…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…

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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…

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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.

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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.

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