While most bands undergo a number of changes over the course of their careers, few of them experienced a more radical stylistic evolution than Fleetwood Mac. Initially conceived as a hard-edged British blues combo in the late ’60s, the band gradually evolved into an incredibly popular and influential pop/rock act over the course of a decade. Originally, guitarists Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer provided the group with their gutsy psychedelic blues-rock sound, then the band moved toward pop/rock with the addition of keyboardist/songwriter Christine McVie….
Fleetwood Mac Live 1975 captures the incredible electricity of the band’s first tour with the legendary lineup of Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham joining Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, & Christine McVie.
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Their first release in over 14 years, Forever, I’ve Been Being Born, finds Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter dealing with life, death, change, and renewal as the Seattle-based outfit’s fragile cosmic folk music drifts into the ether.
The band’s core, vocalist Sykes and guitarist Phil Wandscher, needed time to regroup and find inspiration after losing their rhythm section following 2011’s Marble Son. The new album is softer with layers of strings and light percussion around Sykes’ lyrics of crumbling and rebuilding. The pattern throughout the record is to start soft with minimal support to Sykes’ enchanting vocals, then increase the sound by adding multiple strings, chimes, and fuzzy electric guitar to close.
Their ethereal, floating sound begins with…
A remastered and expanded 4-CD box set of ‘Sea Dream’, with unreleased demos, live material, and new archival content.
…Sea Dream was a collection of previously unreleased demos and recordings made by the late Randy California and his band Spirit. Originally issued in 2002 as a double CD version and unavailable for many years.
The ‘Sea Dream’ suite was a project Randy had been working on since the late 1980s and this work was the basis of the original release which was greeted with praise from Spirit fans. For this new edition, Spirit archivist Mick Skidmore has located new master sources of the original material and has also enhanced this release by the discovery of an additional 2CDs of wonderful,..
…This remastered edition celebrating the 25th anniversary, includes a previously unreleased track.
Some musical genres change violently in sudden lurches. Others sway and shimmy forwards, evolving so gracefully so you hardly notice. When the impeccably laid back Brazilian bossa nova decides to embrace modern technology there’s no surprise it should do so ever so gently.
Bebel Gilberto has a pretty daunting musical heritage to live up to. Her father is João Gilberto, the man who invented bossa nova, and her mother is the singer Miúcha. Bebel’s first public appearance was a concert at Carnegie Hall with her mother and Stan Getz when she was nine years old. So it’s not surprising that shes taken a while to record this debut album.
…featuring the original album, B-sides, remixes, singles and never-before-released live at NEC, Birmingham, which has been newly mixed by Dan Hawkins.
From the moment the pan flute fanfare on “One Way Ticket” kicks off One Way Ticket to Hell…and Back, it’s clear that the Darkness still believes that more is more. If anything, the band believes that even more is even better: with the help of producer Roy Thomas Baker, they make their second album incredibly glossy and expensive-sounding, with layers of sitars, marching drums, bagpipes, and tubular bells on top of their already-powerful guitars, drums, and keyboards (and, of course, Justin Hawkins’ formidable falsetto). But while the band’s excess succeeded on…
…featuring six bonus tracks (and one song replaced).
Neil Young’s sixth studio album, 1975’s Tonight’s the Night, closed out the singer-songwriter’s so-called Ditch Trilogy. 1972’s country-rock landmark Harvest catapulted Young to superstardom, yielding the chart-topping single “Heart of Gold” and becoming the U.S.’ best-selling album of 1972. But he wasn’t comfortable with everything that fame brought, and his successive albums replaced the wistful glow and commercial sheen of Harvest with something altogether darker. Tonight’s the Night followed Time Fades Away (1973) and On the Beach (1974) in the trilogy, though Beach was actually recorded after Tonight’s.
The raw, unvarnished music of Tonight’s…
Fire Records release Long March Through the Jazz Age, the last recorded work by Chris Bailey and The Saints, coinciding closely with what would have been Bailey’s 69th birthday. It’s a moving farewell – a testament to a restless, uncompromising artist who always moved forward, one of rock’s great lyricists and iconoclasts.
Recorded in late 2018 at Church Street Studios in Sydney, Bailey and longtime Saints drummer Pete Wilkinson flew in from Europe to reunite with guitarist/engineer Sean Carey, who had previously toured and recorded with the band. They were joined by Davey Lane (You Am I) on guitar, plus a handpicked ensemble of Sydney’s most exciting young horn, string and keyboard players.
“In my opinion, The Saints were Australia’s…
Dave Helgi Johan has spent over a decade performing with numerous bands. He was originally from Winnipeg, Canada, growing up in an Icelandic settler-origin village. However, he moved to Byron Bay, Australia, in 2019 to better his musical career. Whilst this collection is a relatively modest affair, Johan’s knack for a cracking melody, his adept production and his knowing sense of humour make for a really enjoyable listen. A lo-fi feel is prevalent, but Johan has spent a lot of time at his various computers and in the studio to ensure this sounds a very polished affair. Whilst listening, there was a distinct feeling of the solo material that Katrina and the Waves guitarist Kimberley Rew has released over the years – a major compliment, as these are brilliant albums.
As the leader, brainchild, and sole consistent member of Adeline Hotel, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dan Knishkowy approaches each new release as an opportunity to present a new (or modified) version of his stellar band. The new Adeline Hotel record, Watch the Sunflowers, draws on elements from previous releases but remains a fresh-sounding album with tons of great, beautifully arranged ideas.
Much like Destroyer‘s Dan Bejar, Knishkowy is a restless visionary who doesn’t seem comfortable placing his music in one particular genre for too long. Previous Adeline Hotel albums have explored low-key indie folk/pop (Solid Love), acoustic guitar instrumentals (Good Timing), and lush chamber pop (The Cherries Are Speaking).
…2025 edition features fully restored audio by Neil Combstock (Bōucan Road Studios).
Julien Philéas, better known as Granmoun Lélé (1930–2004), was a griot and one of the most outstanding artists from the island of Réunion. Lélé was a percussionist, singer, storyteller and, above all, a healer.
As a teenager, he worked as a fitter in a sugar factory. After a week of work, Lélé would sing at kabars — places where, according to Malagasy custom, men and women gather to dance to the sounds of traditional instruments. He was raised amid Tamil rituals and Malagasy ceremonies, and he also drew inspiration from his dreams, experiences and the surrounding nature.
The album Soléyé was originally released in…
Gambian kora master and singer-songwriter, Suntou Susso hails from a celebrated lineage of griot musicians. Counting amongst his family are some of the world’s most renowned West African artists including Seckou Keita, Solo Cissokho, and Mamudou Susso.
Offering a contemporary edge grounded in ancestral wisdom, Jaliya Silokang (The Path of a Griot) is more than an album; it’s a bridge between generations and continents. The original compositions are rooted in Afro-Manding style with polyrhythms, spark influences from folk, jazz and funk. This contemporary griot song book by Suntou Susso resonates powerful messages of personal responsibility — to each other and to the world. Jaliya Silokang shows Susso’s…
Universe’s lone 1977 LP cloaks Hawkwind-meets-Syd-Barrett psychedelia in Yes-scale grandeur, with dexterous keys, swirling synths and ten-minute epic “Touchdown” propelling an ethereal, subtly spiritual voyage through cosmic Americana.
The result is a heady acidprog reverie, equal parts celestial hymn and spacerock odyssey, that ranks among the great hidden treasures of 70’s U.S. prog. Mixing the sounds of Hawkwind and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, Universe successfully created their own acid rock sound. Formed in the mid ’70s in California by Gary Paul Van and Dennis Lee Askew, Universe released one eponymous album in 1977, and what an album it was.
Touchdown features fine acoustic and electric guitar work. It is the longest song…
“I’m movin’ on,” Daniel Womack sings during the first minute of Easy Company, an album that finds Futurebirds — once the best-kept secret of Athens, GA’s music scene, now a beloved act on a national scale— back in the driver’s seat, speeding together toward some new horizon.
Momentum. Evolution. Expansion. Those are important traits for a critically-acclaimed group that recently celebrated its 15-year anniversary. “When you’ve been a band for as long as we have, there’s a lot of moving on,” says Thomas Johnson. “We just keep going, because that’s how you keep things fresh. That’s how you keep the spark.” By matching the sharply-written songs of three distinct frontmen with a progressive mix of rock & roll, electrified folk, and cosmic American…
After decades of working at the margins of experimental electronic music, French composer Manon Anne Gillis returns with Eyry], her ninth solo album and a stunning testament to her unique approach to sound as a tactile, sensory experience. Released on Art Into Life as a limited edition of 300 vinyl copies, Eyry weaves together voice, breathing, words, and sounds using ingenious methodologies that have defined Gillis’ practice since the 1980s.
Since her earliest works in the 1980s, Gillis has been creating music using primitive systems, pursuing an aesthetic that privileges feeling and immersion over conceptual understanding. Eyry continues this trajectory with ten pieces that transform spoken word and singing into blurred noise and irregular repetitions, plunging them…
A spellbinding five-CD box set Archives Box 1983-2005 documenting the entire enigmatic production of one of the missing links in experimental electronic and prototypical industrial music: Anne Gillis. From her groundbreaking 1983 Devil’s Picnic release through her 2005 installations and exhibitions, this comprehensive collection unveils the hidden world of a visionary French composer whose work anticipated much of what would follow in electroacoustic composition and sound art.
Since the early 1980s, Manon Anne Gillis has been creating music using primitive systems, pursuing the smallest of impulses to their logical end-points. Her work exists in a space simultaneously quotidian and theatrical, transforming spoken word, breathing, and singing into blurred noise…
Everclear, one of the leading alternative rock bands to emerge from the ’90s led by vocalist, guitarist and founder Art Alexakis, has officially released the Sparkle and Fade 30th Anniversary Remastered Deluxe Edition.
The new, expanded edition of Everclear’s platinum-selling, major-label debut album, Sparkle and Fade, features all 14 original tracks, remastered by Brad Blackwood, plus bonus content pulled from the vault, featuring unreleased tracks, alternate versions of fan favorites, and original demos, as well as cover songs that were recorded around the same time as the original Sparkle and Fade sessions.
Sparkle and Fade, which had a massive impact in 1995 with its chart-topping hit Santa Monica…
Although Brinsley Schwarz has had a rich and varied musical career spanning six decades, playing with the likes of Duck Deluxe, Graham Parker and the Rumour, and Carlene Carter, it’s somewhat of a surprise to learn that Shouting at the Moon is only his third solo record. There was a time when Schwarz admitted to going through a songwriting drought, which lasted almost 20 years. However, Schwarz’s enthusiasm for writing and recording has been rekindled in recent years, following his first two solo albums released in 2016 and 2021, respectively, in addition to recent tours with Graham Parker, have also acted as inspiration.
The nine songs on Shouting at the Moon were written at different times over the past 30 years. Schwarz has said that tracks like…
…includes two previously unreleased songs “Leave Overjoyed” and “Something Drive”.
Arriving ten years after the fun-loving indie rockers released their debut EP in 2015, the self-produced IRON is Post Animal‘s fourth studio album and their first to feature Joe Keery — aka Stranger Things’ Steve Harrington — since their 2018 full-length debut. IRON also saw all six of them gathering in person in the studio after operating remotely for a few years, with several other members besides Keery having relocated away from their base of Chicago. These reunions seem significant on an album that is not only named for the friends’ connection but proves to be their most sentimental release yet, with topics like friendship, loss, and aging surfacing on many of…