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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is without question Wilco’s most storied and experimental release. Produced by the band and mixed by Jim O’Rourke, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot finds the Chicago-based band stretching their creative boundaries, imbuing their trademark sound w

The maturation of the Black Keys as record makers and performers has been both subtle and startling. With their 2008 Nonesuch release Attack & Release, the fifth album of their then eight-year career which doubled the sales of their previous album and Non

Even before it celebrated its 25th anniversary, Brian Eno and David Byrne’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was downright visionary. With its “found” vocals, cut-and paste arrangements, funked-up rhythms, and embrace of influences from all around the globe,

On almost every level of A Ghost Is Born, Wilco concocts the perfect follow-up to 2002's career-defining Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. With multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke aboard and a more organic feel, this 2004 creative detour takes greater risks and yields

Ry Cooder's Chávez Ravine (2005) – a post World War II – era American narrative of "cool cats," radios, UFO sightings, J. Edgar Hoover, red scares, and baseball – is a tribute to the long-gone Los Angeles Latino enclave known as Chávez Ravine. Using real

The Magnetic Fields' Quickies vinyl box set is five 7" EPs comprising twenty-eight new short songs by Stephin Merritt, ranging in length from thirteen seconds to two minutes and thirty-five seconds, performed by Merritt and band members Sam Davol, Claudia

Nonesuch Records' 1989 recording of Steve Reich's Different Trains, the Grammy Award winner for Best Contemporary Composition, and Electric Counterpoint return to vinyl. The album features the first recordings of the two pieces, performed by Kronos Quarte

If Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians is simply described in terms of its materials and organization -- 11 chords followed by 11 pieces built on those chords -- then it might seem utterly dry and monotonous. The actual music, though, is far from lacklus