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December 2, 2016Mick Jagger dominates the Rolling Stones' quickly recorded, wholly satisfying blues album.
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December 2, 2016The Academy Award winner's fifth album, produced by Blake Mills, is a fully evolved synthesis of gospel, folk, R&B;, and adult pop.
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December 2, 2016The reclusive musician's return to the stage in 2014 is documented with this singular and spectacular live recording.
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December 2, 2016An excerpt from the massive 1966 Live Recordings box, this also acts as a companion to The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4.
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December 2, 2016The second solo album from the Libertines' frontman is some of his most rollicking, sardonic, and poignant music.
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December 2, 2016The two singer/songwriters hung out for a weekend in August 2010 and ended up with a psychedelic covers album of diverse tunes from the '60s and '70s.
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December 9, 2016Fascinating box set of early solo material by Cabaret Voltaire co-founder Richard H. Kirk, ranging from industrial experiments to acid house tracks.
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December 9, 2016Five-CD box set compiling early material by Sandoz, the globally conscious ambient techno project of Cabaret Voltaire's Richard H. Kirk.
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September 18, 2001Soulful, bright, slightly mischievous IDM hybrid of glitch, electro, and ambient.
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December 2, 2016The band reunites for another album of guitar pop delights, featuring members of Yo La Tengo. This edition adds a bonus disc of live shows.
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December 2, 2016The Italian post-punks add heft and new dimensions to their music on their confident second album.
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December 2, 2016Lo-fi meets AOR in a noisy battle to the death on the short, insanely hooky single from the Indiana duo.
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December 2, 2016Bringing a taste of the Golden Age of hip-hop into 2016, this collaborative album is a nourishing standout of solid production and hard-hitting bars.
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December 2, 2016Zombi's Steve Moore composed the excellent soundtrack for a telekinesis-themed horror film directed by Joe Begos.
1981
This doesn't capture Scott-Heron at the peak of his game, though it does contain one of the poet, singer, and activist's best-known songs. "B-Movie," an extended attack on Ronald "Ray-gun," unleashes 12 minutes of vitriol about the then recently elected president. Beginning with the declaration "Mandate, my ass," it's a laundry list of fears about Reagan, fantasizing that his election meant "we're all actors" in some surreal film.
March 31, 1998
At once languid and intense, the Dirty Three called up a world of organic yet otherworldly sounds on their fourth album, 1998's Ocean Songs. The Australian trio used their unique lineup of violin (Warren Ellis), guitar (Mick Turner), and drums (Jim White) to construct evocative soundscapes out of the most simple musical ingredients, and the results are gloriously hypnotic, rough but sensuous and endlessly compelling. Ocean Songs captures a unique group at their very best.
