I feel badly for Olivia Rodrigo. Here she is with Sour, one of the most incredibly successful albums of 2021 in a period when albums aren’t supposed to be such a big deal.

A description on the front page of Jon Hassell’s website describes him as a “music visionary, continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing.” That is as precise as any description of the trumpet player and musical pioneer who passed away last month at the age of 84.

The Sam Peckinpah movie (that wasn’t) based on the hit song “Convoy” by an artist who was created as part of an advertising campaign

It’s a pleasure to report that the posthumous Tony Joe White release, Smoke From the Chimney is just as great as it sounded on paper. Better, even.

From cannibal movies to Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement’s dark heart of terror

Greta Van Fleet’s new album, The Battle at Garden’s Gate, seeks revenge on the critics who have dismissed the band for no reason.

by Marshall Bowden

The sound of a slot machine cashing out–maybe a sly reference to “Money”–and then this: “The men who rule the world/have made a fuckin’ mess…” Garbage is back, and Shirley Manson is pissed off–about the state of our  world, about the degradation of our humanity and how we never learn a damn thing.

Taking a look at some historic releases that turned out to be fakes, but still produced outstanding music: Jurgen Muller, Ursula Bogner, and the East German ‘Kosmischer Laufer project.’

Peter Baumann is known primarily as a member of Tangerine Dream from 1971-1977 (except for a brief hiatus in 1975, when he was replaced for some live performances by Michael Hoenig). This was the group’s first golden era, generally known as ‘The Virgin Years’ when the group’s sound became chiefly synthesizer-driven and when the band first used sequencers, one of the first performers to do so on record.