Andrew Cyrille and Bill McHenry

Proximity

In the tradition of Coltrane and Rashid Ali, a tenor saxophonist and an esteemed drummer play clear and free in duets.

The Legendary Stardust Cowboy

Launch Pad Favorites

One of the stranger denizens of that nebulous world of outsider artists, Legendary Stardust Cowboy is an artist like no other.

The 15 Best Americana Albums of 2016

This year's Best of Americana list may place the greatest distance between the genre and country music of any list we've compiled in recent years.

Moderat

Live

Serving as the perfect culmination of Moderat's studio LP triptych -- which reached its apex with this year's III -- Live proves that 2016 was Moderat's year.

Kjartan Sveinsson

Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen

Former Sigur Rós pianist Kjartan Sveinsson's first major orchestral work is an intriguing listen for patient listeners. The fourth movement is worth the price of admission alone.

Led Zeppelin

The Complete BBC Sessions

Led Zeppelin’s full BBC sessions are finally reunited more than 40 years after they were recorded and 20 years after the bulk of the collection first appeared.

The Spencer Davis Group

Taking Out Time

What happens to a band when founding members depart? If you're the Spencer Davis Group, you soldier on and make the best of it.

Soul Scratch - "Look How Far We've Come" (audio) (premiere)

Soul Scratch is one of those groups that you know you love within a few seconds of hearing one of their songs.

Hannah Williams and the Affirmations - "Tame in the Water" (audio) (premiere)

UK soul singer extraordinaire Hannah Williams is back with an incendiary, soul-stomper of a tune, "Tame in the Water".

David Choi

The David Choi Christmas Album

The YouTuber gives his warm and genuine take on holiday chestnuts.

STS9 Blasts Off in Epic Fillmore Homecoming

The tone scientists of STS9 are at the top of their game here, mixing songs together for unique mashups as they push the improvisational envelope to the edge.

Various Artists

Christmas on the Lam and Other Songs from the Season

Christmas on the Lam offers itself up as a fine alternative to the traditional Christmas fare without falling back on the cloying tropes found in the majority of contemporary Christmas songs.

'Doc Savage' and 'Time After Time', As Seen Through Older Eyes, Now

We can see, now, that Nicholas Meyer learned the lesson of George Pal's Time Machine, even if Pal didn't.

We're 'Children of Divorce', We're Doomed to Glamour!

Frank Lloyd's silent film explores how the other half suffers.

Trumpaholism, or, Is "Liquor Before Beer, Never Fear" a Piece of Fake News?

How I worry when I drink, and why Distilled Knowledge is diffuse knowledge.

Bob Dylan, 'The Lyrics: 1961-2012'

Grizzled poet, mercurial visionary, and now Nobel Prize winner. More than 50 years of Dylan lyrics are lovingly compiled in this handsome set.