The multi-hyphenate Nicholas Payton premieres a new trio, recording alongside eccentric bassist Esperanza Spalding and straight-ahead luminary Karriem Riggins, a roster enough to whet any forward-thinking listener’s appetites. Payton, beyond his wildly successful sideman stints with Oscar Peterson, Mulgrew Miller and Milt Jackson, has also made great strides to define his own worldly, idiosyncratic style as leader and solo artist, drawing from both his bopping lineage and the moodier, atmospheric ambitions of his peers. He parades confidently through no-nonsense bop and funk alike, contemporary fusion and hip-hop—nothing fazes him. Payton is insatiable, varied, defined only by a cohesive formalism, a workmanlike approach to performance…
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…Limited Edition CD features an exclusive bonus track.
Vicious Delicious couldn’t feel more seasonally suited: the string-drenched ‘Spider’ and its creepy-crawly refrain – “Spider, spider, crawling inside her” – is like something from a horror movie. But Luvcat isn’t here for spooky season alone – this debut plays more like Halloween with a Valentine’s Day lens over the top. Light versus dark, innocence versus kink, desire versus destruction: Luvcat is always straddling both sides. “Nothing’s fictional, it’s all real,” she promises. And when she declares, “Can’t get off the ferris wheel / When the circus is in me,” during the carnival chaos of ‘Blushing’, it’s clear the ride’s about to start.
There is an intimacy to 
The adjective “Waits-ian” (with reference to Tom Waits) is one that is often applied to performers who gruffly operate outside of the musical mainstream and 
For nearly two decades, Lebanese experimental musicians and composers Raed Yassin and Paed Conca have been developing a thrilling hybrid of Arabic working-class popular music and psych-adjacent free jazz as 
In 1982, London-based Sikh devotional singer 
…for whatever reason, certain art forms have been slow to address the fact that, since the introduction of the iPhone, many relationships are largely mediated through screens.
Woe be to the listener who would try to put 
…features remastered audio by Heba Kadry.
After a 2+-year break, Neil Young is continuing his Official Release Series with new box sets on both CD and LP rounding up another four albums from the 1990s. ORS Vol. 6 arrives on the Reprise label with newly remastered editions of Harvest Moon (1992, ORS Disc 26), Unplugged (1993, ORS Disc 27), Sleeps with Angels (1993, ORS Disc 28), and Mirror Ball (1995, ORS Disc 29).
On his sophomore long-player, London-based jazz composer and keyboardist 
Dave’s Picks Vol. 56, the fourth and final Dave’s Pick of 2025, feature two nearly complete shows recorded March 20, 1981, and March, 21, 1981, at the Rainbow Theatre in London. The shows were the opening two nights of a four-night stand at the venue.
A taxidermied parrot glares back at you from the cover of 
Pete Namlook, one of the most influential figures in the history of electronic music, passed away in 2012, leaving behind a vast sonic legacy. Yet 
Heavy Metal and Punk Rock! It’s fair to say that these two noisy tribes now have a great deal in common, often melding together to produce bastard offspring of their own. But it wasn’t always this way. Indeed, there was a time when fists were more likely to be thrown than bumped, and beers more likely to be hurled than shared, except when it came to Motörhead. That was the one band all could agree on. The one band that was truly ours! But while Motörhead’s impact on metal has long been acknowledged, their influence on punk, particularly the post-Sex Pistols second wave shouldn’t be underestimated. Cause and effect: It’s that simple. And such is the case with hundreds, thousands, of other bands, all made faster, dirtier, louder, better, by Motörhead.
From the Garage fueled shadows of upstate New York, The Chesterfield Kings have returned this Halloween with Loose Ends: 1989–2004 Rare, B-Sides & Unreleased that is out via Wicked Cool Records. This anthology cracks open the vault to deliver a fuzz-drenched feast of rarities, forgotten gems, and unreleased recordings spanning the band’s wildest years. For the first time ever, these deep cuts and obscure one-offs, many previously scattered across hard-to-find vinyl and CD pressings, have been digitally remastered and compiled into one explosive release. It’s a time capsule of pure Rock swagger: stomping rhythms, snarling guitars, and that signature Chesterfield Kings attitude that has influenced generations of garage revivalists and true believers.