Sure, it was only $1. But record people love anything they get for free. Not only that, but I recalled Steve Forbert’s Jackrabbit Slim not merely for the hit single “Romeo’s Tune,” but because it was a stone-cold fantastic record. Still is.

Springsteen’s record is made all the more poignant because it was recorded late last year, and now it echoes like an empty barroom stage down the long hallway of the year of COVID-19

This week it was revealed in a Nate Chinen piece for The New York Times that Keith Jarrett–pianist, composer, and one of the most important jazz musicians of the last sixty years–suffered two strokes in 2017, from which he still struggles to recover, and that he will not play the piano again. All of that comes as his longstanding record label, ECM, releases the first concert from his 2016 tour, recorded in Budapest.

You might not think you know the music of progressive Italian band Goblin, but if you’ve seen horror films such as Profondo Rosso, Suspiria, and George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, then you have heard some of their music.

Marc Anthony Thompson has never become a household name in large part because his music is emotionally deep, musically complex, and doesn’t fit the public’s (or record labels’) expectation of black songwriters.