7SPIN Rating: 7 of 10Release Date: July 22, 2014Label: Partisan RecordsRecently in The Atlantic, Joshua Wolf Shenk countered the lone-genius myth with the example of…
9SPIN Rating: 9 of 10Release Date: May 20, 2014Label: Spacebomb RecordsBeginning in the mid-'50s, kids music evolved from naive story-songs created for children exclusively to…
It appears that Grandma Sparrow's Joe Westerlund has been hiding his passion for avant-garde kids' music behind the drum kit of North Carolina avant folk-rock…
8SPIN Rating: 8 of 10Release Date: April 30, 2013Label: ConstellationPatented in 1846, the bass saxophone was the first of Adolphe Sax's most famous inventions, and…
7SPIN Rating: 7 of 10Release Date: February 05, 2013Label: ATOEnter the mystic. Your guide will be My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James, who dials down…
7SPIN Rating: 7 of 10Release Date: January 08, 2013Label: Fire"Black music is dead," David Thomas informed a journalist in 2009. "It's a rotten, stinking corpse."
8SPIN Rating: 8 of 10Release Date: September 11, 2012Label: HyperdubTogether since 2000, South London production trio LV only released their full-length debut last year, when…
8SPIN Rating: 8 of 10Release Date: July 31, 2012Label: Studio MaliMali ngoni whiz goes deep and diverse on impeccably recorded, exquisitely harmonized neo-trad solo LP.
