Asa Osborne's solo guise, Zomes, is the penultimate exercise in the study of repetition and meditative repose. Simple melodic keyboard patterns overlay primitive drum loops. The repetitive quality is...

Produced by Grammy-award winning songwriter and producer,Joe Henry, with a world-class and of eight stellar musicians,The Long Surrender is a cinematic, soulful journey fullof rewards and unexpected...

Wooden Shjips stand at the forefront of modern psychedelic rock and present, West their first album for Thrill Jockey. The over riding theme for the album (as indicated by the title) is the American...

Mates of State have made a new album called Mountaintops. You already love Jason and Kori's unmistakable music, or perhaps you’ve managed to miss out or have simply misunderstood just how...

Following up her excellent 2002 debut, Sharon Jones stays true to the formula she laid down on her early releases and Dap Dippin' by presenting another session of full-force funk that pays homage to...

In 1996 Blue Angel Recordings (later Blue Planet) an imprint of the legendary Rising High label released the Drum 'N' Bass for Papa album by Plug AKA West Country king of kitschtronica Luke Vibert. ...

John Doe is one of modern music's most authentic & enduring songwriters. A keystone of the legendary LA punk rock band X, the Chicago Tribune called him, "punk rock's golden throat." While touring...

Brooklyn based Liturgy is Hunter Hunt Hendrix, Greg Fox, Tyler Dusenbury, and Bernard Gann. Aesthethica, their second album and third release, shows the band exploring, in greater depth, themes...

A sprawling beast of unique nature - at once beguiling, terrifying and completely immersive. A more successful pairing of experimental-metal-drone-ambient-krautish-noise-rock collaborators you are...

Produced by David Rawlings. Released June 3, 2003. Track Listing: 1. Look At Miss Ohio 2. Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor 3. Wayside/Back In Time 4. I Had A Real Good Mother and...

Greg Brown, accomplished songwriter, co-founder of the influential indie roots label Red House and former musical director for Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion radio program, is a prolific...

Swarming hymns of 2nd generation psychedelic pop mastery, The Soft Boys' two most influential and groundbreaking albums are finally back in print via Yep Roc Records. Main man Robyn Hitchcock, along...

The Disco Demands series started sometime in the early 2000s - I couldn't give you an exact year because it didn't feel like a big deal, so I never noted it. I simply wanted to put out a compilation...

Josh Rouse's new album, his ninth overall, with the simple title, Josh Rouse and the Long Vacations, alludes to both his history and what is to come. Joining him for this excursion is tow native...

"I've come to expect good records from him...but this one took my breath away."Bob Boilen, NPR Music. Ritter's sixth studio album, So Runs The World Away, marks the beginning of what Josh calls a...

Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his Quartet's longtime pianist, Joey Calderazzo, share a collection of melodic songs on their latest release, Songs of Mirth and Melancholy. Born of an...

"I kept recording more songs with no regard whether or not they were gonna be on anything. That's what I'm used to doing, recording all the time and not going, 'What should I record for this record?'...

Re-drawing and blurring the lines between psychedelia and sci-fi, between art and entertainment, between sound design and melody, Amon Tobin has created the finest, most intense work of his very...