Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches

I almost couldn't believe it when I saw Sonny Sharrock featured so prominently in Questlove's new Summer of Soul doc. It's a ph...

Here is a new feature on the Descendents' upcoming album , which was recorded in 2002 and 2020, and features songs written between 1977 ...

I spoke to all four members of Slint about Spiderland , which turns 30 this week. This album entered my bloodstream at the exact right time...

Last week, just days apart, we lost a pair of masters, who, as many pointed out, worked together early in their career, before they became l...

My friend and fellow writer/musician Brad Farberman has put together this lovely and eclectic multi-artist comp for Bandcamp Friday, with p...

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...