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Waits, Tom: Closing Time (2LP/clear/45rpm/50th ltd/Abbey Road half speed) LP

1999's Gold-certified Mule Variations offers up a full dose of signature Tom Waits and then some. Edgy stomps, humor and experimentation are interspersed with some of the most beautiful and personal songs he's ever written. The Grammy Award winner for Bes

After signing with Asylum Records in the early 1970s, Tom Waits recorded a series of acclaimed albums whose noir tales about the after-midnight underworld transformed the seedy into the sublime in songs laced with both dark humor and profound longing. Dec

MJ Lenderman is a songwriter born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and skuzzed out guitar; crackin' a cold one with some buds; a voice reminiscent of the high-lonesome w

"Apple Cores" is the latest full-length album from New York tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, "one of the fiercest sounds in jazz today" (The Guardian) with a "penchant for unbound exploration" (Pitchfork). Informed by the rhythms and textures of hip

Fleet Foxes' "Live On Boston Harbor" serves as the live album companion to the band's concert broadcast in 2022, marking the autumnal equinox and coinciding with the second anniversary of the GRAMMY-nominated studio album "Shore". Recorded at Leader Bank

MJ Lenderman is a songwriter born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and skuzzed out guitar; crackin' a cold one with some buds; a voice reminiscent of the high-lonesome w

Los Angeles-based experimental jazz collective High Pulp will release their new album Days in the Desert in peak sweltering summer heat on July 28. The titular desert is both literal and metaphorical: it's the Mojave Desert that the band powers through on

One of the hardest working singer-songwriters in the game is named Katie Crutchfield. She was born in Alabama, grew up near Waxahatchee Creek. Skipped town and struck out on her own as Waxahatchee. That was over a decade ago. Crutchfield says she never kn

Wild Creatures pulls together some high points of feral joy from twenty-one years of solo work by Neko Case. The Virginian marked Neko's debut as a solo artist in 1997. She delved into darkness in 2000 with Furnace Room Lullaby, scrawled Blacklisted in 20

Singer/songwriter M. Ward returns in 2023 with the new studio album Supernatural Thing. His songs "luxuriate in a dream world conjured out of memories, shared stories, and flights of fancy," Pitchfork says, and the album's title track also lives in a limi

London based producer, pianist, bandleader and MC Alfa Mist delivers his fourth full-length solo record Bring Backs, his first release for the ANTI- label and the most detailed exploration of his upbringing in musical form. The album's nine tracks of groo

I've been focused on who I am in my music, but now I'm exploring where I am," Alfa Mist says. "I'm asking: how did I get here?"

This is the journeying question that underpins Alfa's fifth album, Variables. Traversing luscious, big band swing, head-nodd

James Brandon Lewis is a New York-based jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. His instrumental voice marries the emotional power of gospel and the grit and groove of blues and R&B to the modal and vanguard influences of Albert Ayler and John C

Limited 20th anniversary edition, pressed on metallic silver vinyl. "Blood Money" is etched. It's scratched out in bold, dark lines, with marimba, trumpet, and bass clarinet and contains some songs of Tom Waits' most memorable melodies. The songs are dec

On Heartmind, Cass McCombs enters the double-digit-album phase of his career, a quantitatively rarified place for any songwriter; rarer still, though, is the fact that he does not yet seem to have settled into a qualitative sound or pattern, of singing th

Expanding beyond the folk and pop stylings of his first album, “Heart of Saturday Night,“ Waits’ second studio release, established his reputation as a versatile and distinctly American songwriter. Its bluesy jazz arrangements featured bass, drums, sax an

Fleet Foxes return with their fourth full-length album Shore, bringing the dark sophistication of 2017's Crack-Up to new heights with a soulful, sun-shined hue and fresh rhythmic vitality. The songs have dark themes of loss and struggle, but contain an up

After signing with Asylum Records in the early 1970s, Tom Waits recorded a series of acclaimed albums whose noir tales about the after-midnight underworld transformed the seedy into the sublime in songs laced with both dark humor and profound longing. Dec

After signing with Asylum Records in the early 1970s, Tom Waits recorded a series of acclaimed albums whose noir tales about the after-midnight underworld transformed the seedy into the sublime in songs laced with both dark humor and profound longing. Dec