Category: DJ

‘Cornucopia Live’ Captures Björk At the Height of Her Live Power

The best concert albums bring home the excitement of the live experience. Though the songs might not sound as polished as the studio versions, live records present us with different iterations of music that have continued to gestate long after the producer has applied the finishing touches. On triple-live album Cornucopia Live, released October 24, […]

October 27, 2025
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Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Tortoise has done a lot in their 30+ years as a band. In the ‘90s, they became standard-bearers of the Chicago scene, their unusual instrumentation (three percussionists, two bassists) and eclectic palette (jazz, dub, EDM, prog) helping define a major wing of the instrumental post-rock genre. Their expansive 1998 album, TNT, with its cover doodle […]

October 27, 2025
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Rafael Toral Is Murdering the Classics

Rafael Toral’s most recent album, 2024’s Spectral Evolution, consisted of a single 42-minute track, divided into loose, flowing movements, but based on the chord changes of the Gershwin chestnut “I Got Rhythm.” On his follow-up, Traveling Light (October 24), the Portuguese guitarist works smaller, refashioning six jazz standards using his “space instruments”— electronic contraptions of […]

October 24, 2025
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5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats

Name  Slim Jim Phantom Best known for  Drummer for the Stray Cats, DJ “Little Steven’s Underground Garage,” Owner of the Cat Club at 8911 Sunset Blvd., and providing a place to play for 5,000 bands you’ve never heard of. Current City  Los Angeles, CA. Really want to be in  Jamaica At Goldeneye with my beautiful and rocking wife Jennie Vee. […]

October 24, 2025
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A Broken Piano, An Exhausted Pianist, and the Album That Changed Jazz

For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz album of all time—Keith Jarrett’s passionate and sublime The Köln Concert—though she’d been essential to making it happen in 1975 as an 18-year-old music promoter in Cologne, West Germany. It wasn’t the first show organized by the […]

October 24, 2025
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