Fans of blue-eyed soulman Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed have enjoyed plenty of passionate, often searing music from the singer over the past 20 years.
But even though he released some terrific albums recently, they have been rearrangements of others’ songs.
A side road of an entire set of Merle Haggard tunes done in an R&B style, and another of classic soul covers — 2023s wonderful Hits and Misses — tided listeners over. But it has been seven years since Reed’s last batch of originals.
That musical drought ends with Getting There. Not only does the singer remain in typically stunning form vocally, but he pens eleven new gems, adding two obscure covers few will recognize.
Better yet, he joins with 84-year-old icon…
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For over 20 years now, 
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (aka MIDI) has such a pervasive presence in the musical landscape that it’s easy to take it for granted. Yet, when it first appeared in the early 1980s, the standard felt miraculous. Back when technology was more meaningful, MIDI’s ability to bridge physical and digital domains meant that devices like synthesizers and keyboards were suddenly able to talk both to each other and to computer programs. The protocol has countless applications today, many of them purely software-based, but this particular facet remains its most fascinating, even serving as a core aesthetic principle for acts like Berlin’s 
In its opening moments, 
…The second disc introduces 3 brand-new studio recordings from the band — their first newly minted studio material in over two decades — including a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Bird on the Wire” and Melissa Etheridge’s “Stronger Than Me”. The bonus collection is rounded out by a selection of live performances dating from both their original 1970s touring era and recent 2025 concerts.
Iridescent jangle nirvana. Visceral punk energy. Mournful folk-accented vocalese. Stinging oaths of love and hate, with occasional chipmunk harmonies. The third 
Twenty-five years is an awful long time in electronic music – but that’s how long Simon Green, aka 
Rattlin’ Bones marks 
Ten years ago, on Do Easy – an album made with her twin sister as Tasseomancy – 
…La-La Land’s latest CD expansion of scores from the long-running film series based on Ian Fleming’s British agent 007 comes not from the ’60s or ’70s, but the last decade. LLL has remastered their first Bond score from the Daniel Craig era in 2015’s Spectre, available as a 2CD edition featuring a generously expanded edition of Thomas Newman’s score for the picture along with some album edits and alternate material. For Craig’s fourth time in the tux, the series continued the surprisingly serial direction it had taken since 2006’s reboot Casino Royale. After the loss of M (Judi Dench) in 2012’s Skyfall, Bond once again confronts dark aspects of his past when he discovers that previous adversaries had all been agents of a larger organization of villainy, run by…
…10th anniversary deluxe remaster features the original 9 tracks (remastered) along with 5 previously unreleased bonus tracks.
There is something pointed about calling your record It Is Clear What’s Going On in 2026 and then responding with lyrics that show no interest in meeting the listener halfway. 
