SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN MYSTIC HITS ROYAL OAKIE Sugar Candy Mountain’s Mystic Hits is an album that has been out of print for a while now (a decade or so), and in the meantime has earned that mystic tag from its title. Starting out as duo of [...]
ASHA JEFFERIES EGO RIDE NETTWERK If you are of the opinion that well-crafted, sophisticated pop is not worth your time, you just might as well move on and pass on Asha Jefferies’ new album Ego Ride. On the other hand, even if you do have [...]
ISKWĒ NĪNA INDEPENDENT iskwē’s highly anticipated new album, nīna, stands as a pinnacle of empowerment and artistry in her discography. Delving into intimate themes, iskwē invites listeners into her world through the mesmerizing inflection [...]
TORN BOYS 1983 INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS This is a very interesting album that has shades of the “what could have been” vibe, as it is not an album per se, but a collection of songs by a band that seemed to have a brief blast in the music [...]
EMERSON, LAKE & POWELL COMPLETE COLLECTION SPIRIT OF UNICORN MUSIC/CHERRY RED RECORDS Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) formed in 1970 when Keith Emerson (keyboards), Greg Lake (bass, guitar) and Carl Palmer (drums) came together to form a [...]
BLUE ÖYSTER CULT GHOST STORIES FRONTIERS MUSIC One has to love and respect Blue Öyster Cult. When they decided to assemble and release an album of tracks recorded for but left off their albums from 1978 to 1983 (with one exception of “If I Fell” [...]
JADE BIRD BURN THE HARD DRIVE GLASSNOTE RECORDS Expressing your personal life, feelings, and observations would be quite a double-edged sword for singer-songwriters. To make it work, the artists who take that route have to make a solid [...]
KHRUANGBIN A LA SALA DEAD OCEANS/NIGHT TIME STORIES, LTD. Khruangbin has returned with A La Sala, their fourth studio album and first since 2020’s Mordechai. Over the course of 12 songs, the nearly instrumental trio continues to develop their [...]
