Conscious Party, Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers’ Grammy-award winning album, is being reissued on vinyl and digital. This is the first vinyl pressing of the album since its initial release nearly forty years ago in 1988. Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers was founded in 1979 by four of Bob Marley’s eleven children: Sharon, Cedella, Ziggy, and Stephen. They cut their third album at Sigma Sound in New York City with producers Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club.)
Conscious Party was released on April 5th, 1988, and charted at number 23 on the Billboard 200. It spawned multiple successful singles, including number one Billboard R&B chart hit “Tumblin’ Down” as well as “Tomorrow People”…
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One of the highlights of the King Crimson 50th anniversary CD/Blu-ray editions to date has been King Crimson producer David Singleton’s series of Elemental Mixes as he uses the full spectrum of available studio sessions for each album to produce very different takes on the familiar songs and pieces.
There are live albums that document a band at a particular moment, and then there are those that feel like the closing statement of an entire era. 
For his accurately titled fifth album, Leon Bridges linked with producers and multi-instrumentalists Lydia Kitto and Josh Lloyd-Watson, two-thirds of Jungle. Mutual admirers, Bridges and Jungle had been running into one another at festivals and other gigs. Coming off two of his most ballad-heavy efforts with Gold-Diggers Sound and Leon, Bridges had an eye toward making a more uptempo set of material to get him dancing on-stage again. Who better to enlist than members of a high-profile band known for creating a party-like atmosphere with lively material that is essentially modern disco? Kitto and Lloyd-Watson brought their knowledge of vintage dance music, the high energy, the horns — the organic works, essentially — and Happiness Anytime…
Following the much-loved 
Following the pop-dance showcase ‘EFM’, Jack Latham returns to his Jam City project with stripped down funk, chewed-up Prince-style R&B, vintage electro and simmering disco house.
Mary Gauthier was something of a late starter, delivering her first album when she was in her late thirties but she has become one of americana’s most distinctive songwriters over the years since she started recording her songs in 1997.
Northern California–born songwriter Meg Lui has lived in the rural Catskills for over a decade, but her classic-rock and freewheeling folk-pop songs are pure West Coast sunshine.
Over the course of twenty recordings as a leader, JD Allen has consistently pursued new avenues of musical exploration. For his fifteenth release for Savant, he has chosen a path that is at once new and ancient. Inspired by NEA Jazz Master pianist-composer Randy Weston’s explorations, JD has immersed his artistry in the musical culture of the Gnawa, the vibrant spirit-music brotherhood of North Africa. About the Gnawa, Weston told this writer for his autobiography, AFRICAN RHYTHMS (2010, Duke University Press), “The Gnawa people and their music represent one of the strongest spiritual connections I’ve ever experienced. The Gnawa actually have a close kinship with African Americans; they’re our brothers and sisters. Their ancestors came from the same…
Though still in her twenties, Caged Bird by New York-based vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader 
…features five “brand new recordings based on original folk tales handed to The Residents by The Mysterious N. Senada” in the 1970s, as well as a bonus sixth track, “The Arctic Fox”.
After following up her alienated alt-rock debut with the darker, more existential 
Smidley, the project named after Conor Murphy’s childhood dog, is back with its third LP, 
Two minutes into “The Juice,” a standout from 
Craft Recordings reissue 
Pop music is a game where reinvention is a vital part of the process in the 21st century, and Orville Peck knows that as well as anyone. Transforming himself from a talented but unknown Canadian indie rocker to a bigger-than-life gay cowboy icon with a voice and a swagger as big as all outdoors was no small accomplishment, and as strong as his work has been (especially 2019’s