Reviews: David Bowie | Tower of Power
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Reviews: Frank Sinatra | Andrew Hill
Catching up on a pair of Blue Note Tone Poets. Today I’m reviewing two pieces of vinyl that were released back in March but got temporarily side-shifted during the onslaught of Record Store Day. The good news is that they sound just as good a couple of months later;
New vinyl reissues: May 15, 2026
We have another stuffed week of vinyl to sink our proverbial fangs into, and I don’t have much of a preamble today other than to draw attention to today’s remarkable playlist, which features a track from (almost) every album I’ve written about today, plus some extra tracks
Review: Beastie Boys
Leafing through the new deluxe edition of 2004’s To the 5 Boroughs. We’ve been living without the Beastie Boys for a while now. Since the death of Adam Yauch, aka MCA, in 2012, the two remaining members, Ad-Rock and Mike D, have remained relatively quiet. But a new
New vinyl reissues: May 8, 2026
Once again, we’ve got another big week of hot new vinyl re-releases to explore, with a little bit of everything for everyone. And this week our exclusive playlist is supercharged, with extra selections from interesting reissues that we didn’t manage to fit into the written previews. Before we