Songs for Sleeping Dogs is just that. In 2022 a puppy was born that would change the course of history.

Drummer Neal Smith has a hell of a group here – Eric Alexander on tenor, Steve Wilson on alto, Mark Whitfield on guitar, and Mulgrew Miller on piano – a lineup that he more than lives up to with his tight leadership, and great choice of material for the date!

Nathan East has made a remarkable career by playing bass for all sorts of artists like Eric Clapton, Kenny Loggins, Stevie Wonder, Phil Collins, and even Judas Priest.

Well known throughout Europe for decades, the virtuoso Serbian pianist Vasil Hadžimanov only became known to drummer Michael Waldrop while performing in a Belgrade club that Waldrop dropped in on during one of his yearly visits with in-laws.

Kadavar have undergone a significant transformation since their formation in 2010.

Heartical Sound & Label’s brand new one-riddim album pays tribute to the great Freddie McGregor’s song “I’m a revolutionist”, originally recorded in 1976 at Studio One under the name “I man a rasta”.

Critically acclaimed Canadian Roots-Rock band The Commoners are back and ready to kick off their biggest year yet.

“Music was his passion. His life, his love… his all.”

Five years since her Grammy-nominated breakthrough record Miss Colombia, singer and producer Lido Pimienta has taken a radical shift in direction.

Deluxe two disc edition. 2017 release. Papa Roach have never taken the easy way out and they aren't going to start now. Over the past two decades the group has established itself as a true trendsetter in heavy music: They've been nominated for two Grammys, toured the globe with everyone from Eminem to Marilyn Manson.

Still only in his twenties, the Japanese violinist Fumiaki Miura is an outstanding musical artist. I've had the pleasure of reviewing his three previous recordings, featuring concertos by Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn (review), violin sonatas by Prokofiev (review) and encore pieces (review).

WTF is Modern Soul anyway? Even inside the hallowed halls of the Success Bottling Co., the definition is still a matter of serious debate. It once got physical, when our own Stephen Arndt and Tim Zawada had to be separated during a heated A&R meeting about the track list. This cold war-style feud began in the UK's Northern Soul scene, when late-'70s disco-adjacent 45s were played alongside more traditional sixties fare. Current parlance places the genre firmly in the '80s, with stray synths and drum machines tolerated, if not outright encouraged. An existential question emerged: Can strings and synths co-exist? How much brass is too much brass? Is it legal for the falsetto and guitarist to solo at once? Did that guy just slap his bass? Eccentric Modern Soul answers these burning queries and more, compiling eleven party starters onto a crate-ready single LP. Previously unissued heat from Wee, Ujima, and Wind align with Numeroverse mainstays Universal Togetherness Band, Mind & Matter, Maxx Traxx, and 94 East for a 40-minute sweat session. Everything but the club, so that a night in sounds like a night out.

Zulu Guitar's Pioneering Tricksters But for this compilation of rescued songs masterfully restored from rare 78 rpm shellacs, few could imagine the diversely beautiful roots of Zulu Guitar Music emerging during the period 1950 – 1965. Story-tellers and master musicians appropriate outlaw personae, re-purpose country and western, Hawaiian and other styles, to stretch and challenge our notion of “the Zulu guitar”. Twenty-five songs (18 on vinyl) plunge us into the depths of the migrant experience. Translations in the liner notes offer us glimpses of pugnacity, melancholy and heartache, all coloured by the paternalism that circumscribed the singers’ apartheid-dominated lives.

John McAndrew's new album, Better Side Of Me, is a collaboration with notable producers Denny Seiwell, the co-founder and drummer of Wings, and Fernando Perdomo. Their combined expertise promises to deliver an exceptional listening experience for fans.

Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American jazz musician, most known as an alto saxophonist. He occasionally performed and recorded on tenor saxophone, clarinet (his first instrument) and bass clarinet.