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Ron Carter Quartet Explores Bossa
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Ron Carter Quartet Explores Bossa

The Ron Carter Quartet, led by the inimitable and prolific jazz bassist/cellist/composer, Ron Carter, has collaborated with vocalist Vitoria Meldonado to create the record, Brasil L.I.K.E. (short for Love, Inspiration, Knowledge and Energy). The Grammy-winning Carter is working with American and Brazilian standards in bossa nova on the album, and creating excerpts of jazz within each song. The record also...

St. Paul & The Broken Bones Stay Soulful on Second Album
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St. Paul & The Broken Bones Stay Soulful on Second Album

Alabama’s St. Paul & The Broken Bones is back with a sophomore slab of retro-soul on Sea of Noise. The eight-piece band says the album is more reflective of its tastes than its debut, Half the City, and depends less on belting from lead singer Paul Janeway and more on incorporating his voice into the arrangements, according to a Wall...

ZZ Top Releases First Official Live Album
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ZZ Top Releases First Official Live Album

ZZ Top has the longest-lasting original lineup of any major rock band – the Texas trio of Billy Gibbons (guitar), Dusty Hill (bass) and Frank Beard (drums) have remained together for more than 45 years. But until now, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have gone without releasing a live album. More than four decades on, they’ve assembled LIVE...

Wilco’s Newest Is Joyously Negative
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Wilco’s Newest Is Joyously Negative

Wilco’s 10th studio album, Schmilco, (the title a nod to Harry Nilsson’s 1971 Nilsson Schmilsson) is garnering praise for its relaxed feel and its self-described joyous negativity. Featuring the work of founding bassist John Stirratt, the album from the Chicago band is “sad in a lot of ways but not in any that reach a conclusion of doom or hopelessness,”...

Remastered Beatles “Live at The Hollywood Bowl” Released
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Remastered Beatles “Live at The Hollywood Bowl” Released

A taste of Beatlemania has arrived in a familiar, remastered form. The 1977 album, The Beatles: Live at The Hollywood Bowl, has been spruced up by the Giles Martin, the son of the band’s late, legendary producer, Sir George Martin. The album features performances from three sold-out Hollywood Bowl concerts in 1964 and 1965, when Beatlemania was at its height....

Luke Vajsar Releases “Hyenas”
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Luke Vajsar Releases “Hyenas”

Canadian solo bassist Luke Vajsar has released Hyenas, an album featuring his loop style playing as well as his abilities as a vocalist, guitarist and trombonist. His brother, Andrew, provides the percussion. Recorded and mixed at Toronto’s Skycrib Studios, the record incorporates Vajsar’s melodic playing with funk, soul, jazz, rock and psychedelia. Check out the album’s opening track, “The Stream”:...

“The Bass Book” Published in Revised Third Edition
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“The Bass Book” Published in Revised Third Edition

A classic bass book is back in a revised edition. The Bass Book: A Complete Illustrated History of Bass Guitars, covers everything from the introduction of the electric bass guitar in the early 1950s up through today. Written by by music journalist Tony Bacon and UK bass retailer and distributor Barry Moorhouse, the book includes interviews with bass makers and...

STS9 Goes Universal on Latest Album
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STS9 Goes Universal on Latest Album

Electronica/jam band Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) has released The Universe Inside, which the band says reflects the messages of the golden records that traveled on NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions. According to the band, with Alana Rocklin on bass, the album is about identity “and the magical truth of who we are, where we’re going, and our...

Bill Laswell’s Latest Melds Music & Literature
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Bill Laswell’s Latest Melds Music & Literature

Experimental composer/bassist/producer Bill Laswell has reissued a work previously available only in a 100-CD limited edition at a show in honor of the late postmodern novelist William S. Burroughs. The piece, The Road to the Western Lands, pairs a recording of Burroughs reading from his book “The Western Lands” and Laswell’s music, which has been remastered and enhanced since the...

Singles Set from The Meters Arrives
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Singles Set from The Meters Arrives

All the singles legendary New Orleans funk band The Meters ever made for the Josie, Reprise and Warner Bros. labels has been released on the two-CD set, A Message from The Meters: The Complete Josie, Reprise & Warner Bros. Singles, 1968-1977. The set includes every “A” and “B” side, meaning rare single and mono single mixes of some of the...

Helms Alee Releases “Stillicide”
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Helms Alee Releases “Stillicide”

Metal band Helms Alee has released its fourth studio album, Stillicide. The trio of Ben Verellen (guitar, vocals), Dana James (bass, vocals), and Hozoji Margullis (drums, vocals) makes “smart, nerdy, weird music,” according to a Noisey/Vice song premiere note, which goes on to say, “but the strangest thing about it isn’t its quirky rhythms or offbeat approach—it’s that you could...

King Crimson Releases Audio/Video From 2015 Tour
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King Crimson Releases Audio/Video From 2015 Tour

King Crimson’s Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind audio/video set is the band’s most fully realized version of its 2015 concert experience. The three-CD/one Blu-ray set from the band, with the inimitable Tony Levin on bass, has a “virtual studio album effect,” on the CDs, with no audience sound between songs. It also features a Blu-ray disc...