From the moment he started making music over two decades ago, Shutaro Noguchi has been in constant motion. Born in Japan, Noguchi has been based in the United States for 20 years, primarily in Louisville, where he became a player in the local music community, releasing solo psych-rock epics while participating in experimental groups like Equipment Pointed Ankh and the alt-country collective The Roadhouse Band (where he contributed to contemporary Americana breakout Ryan Davis’ latest album). Noguchi recently relocated to his home country, but not before recording On the Run with that latter outfit.
His latest album, On the Run, plays out like a reflective road trip and a bittersweet farewell tour rolled into one, an atlas of all the sonic…
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This work consists of sound and a collection of AI-generated images. The image collection is a compilation of AI-generated images used in a projection at the Merzbow Free Noise concert held on January 6, 2025, at WWW in Shibuya, Tokyo. The use of such visuals in Merzbow is rare in recent years, and of course, the use of AI-generated images in a live performance is a first.
Over the past few years Acid Jazz has been the proud custodian of the legendary Albarika Store label, which produced some of the finest, deepest West African cuts of the last century. The mainstay of the Albarika sound was the mighty T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, who were prolific throughout the label’s activity from the late ‘60s to the early ’80s.
At some point, one might ask which veteran jazz musicians did not play in the “university of jazz” called Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Familiar names abound through this review, but so many more go unmentioned. Here we present a short-lived version of a group deep into Blakey’s fourth decade. We associate Blakey’s great records mostly with the ‘50s and ‘60s, but 
A 20th anniversary edition of the album, pair the original album (featuring favorites “She’s Hearing Voices,” “Helicopter,” “So Here We Are” and “Banquet”) with 23 B-sides and rarities, including nine unreleased demos and live cuts.
At this point, rock legends Cheap Trick have nothing left to prove. From fan-favorite rockers releasing acclaimed albums at breakneck speed, to becoming an overseas sensation, and landing themselves in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the band has achieved something most bands can only hope for. Not only did Cheap Trick emerge from the underground with an undeniable buzz that mainstream rock couldn’t help but take notice of, but the band has never let go of that opportunity to captivate, achieving a longevity that keeps Cheap Trick in the spotlight decade after decade. A band with this much of a legacy comes to a crossroads. After several decades of cultural dominance, Cheap Trick is forced to choose between falling in line with expectations or pushing…
American Aquarium dropped their 
Toyah’s 1994 studio album was recorded with Salisbury band Friday Forever and includes eight re-recordings of classic Toyah material and six original compositions. CD1 adds four tracks of which three are previously unreleased. This includes demos of album tracks Invisible Love and Lu$t For Love, first recorded in 1992 with Kiss Of Reality.
Toyah’s 1991 solo album 
Simply Red celebrate four decades of music with 
Samuel Holden Jaffe, more likely known by the name of his indie-alternative solo project 
Bergen-based group Kronstad 23 are the latest trailblazers from northern Scandinavia: a creative force exploring the boundaries of musical genres, including but not limited to: psych rock, jazz, post-rock & scandinavian folk music.
Any guitarist looking for a quality blues rocker to emulate couldn’t do better than latch onto Rory Gallagher. But Davy Knowles went one better; he hired Gallagher’s band to support him.
Innovation can sometimes materialise as a sleight of hand trick. We often think of innovative art as some bold, audacious show-stopper or a head-spinningly avant-garde experiment, but it can just easily take the form of a deft work of magic whose singular brilliance incrementally dawns on you. Cultural progression is a marathon not a sprint; a gradual development that needs resonant and endearing qualities as much as it does unorthodox and iconoclastic forms. 
Strange Trip Ahead is Canadian 
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…John Belushi’s widow Judy Belushi Pisano recently rediscovered the live album, which features 13 previously unreleased recordings. The musicians backing up “Joliet” Jake E. Blues and Elwood J. Blues (Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, respectively) are the original band members, a who’s who of notable soul men and bluesmen: members of Booker T. and the M.G.’s, the Bar-Kays, Howlin’ Wolf’s band, and the Saturday Night Live band at the time, including Steve Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Matt Murphy, and Paul Shaffer. The set list includes songs that appeared on the group’s 1978 album, Briefcase Full of Blues.
Guitarist Joshua Condon and bassist Eliza Weber have been leading Chicago’s