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Here's a list of my top 10 favorite albums of 2020, all genres in play. An annotated version appears on Rolling Stone' s aggregated ...

* Annual top 10 lists, all genres in play , 2005 through the present. * Annual jazz top 10 lists , 2008 through the present.

Via Rolling Stone , an interview with the man behind the funniest music-related fan account on Twitter .

I've been on an Alice Coltrane kick lately (working my way through the Impulses right now) and also going back through some of the late ...

Here is a long story I recently published on John Zorn . It focuses on his many projects over the years that have blended jazz/improv with m...

Honored to present this conversation with a true legend (recorded last summer, well before COVID-19). Listen via Apple Podcasts , Spotify o...

Hello, you may have noticed that DFSBP* is somewhat (OK, far...) less active than it's been in the past. This is mainly due to the fact ...

I've wanted to interview Lille Gruber, drummer, co-founder and mastermind of German death-metal masters Defeated Sanity, for a long time...

Update, 3/9/20: One more for McCoy and the quartet . I'm no expert on his vast catalog, but the records I do know — mainly the Coltra...

Happy belated 50th to one of the best bands, full stop. I took the opportunity to delve into the jazz roots and swing tendencies of Black Sa...