No Wonder” will be released digitally on Jan. 24 on Jewel City Jazz/A-Train Entertainment, and physical copies will be ...

Few kinds of music are more inherently visual than prog rock, which is why prog-rock album covers are an art form ... Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, and John Evan wrote most of the text, with help ...

Born in 1943, John Denver’s pop-folk singer/songwriter style shot him to stardom in the 1970s. His fourth album, “Rocky Mountain High,” was released in 1972 and eventually went platinum. The album ...

Well, they can’t all be winners. Some album covers are just weird enough to be visually interesting to both fans and non-fans alike. However, there have been a few creative choices through the ...

Starlight Jazz: Jon Cowherd, Brian Blade, John Patitucci, & Nicholas PaytonSat, 14 Dec ...

Over on Bluesky, Blondie co-founder and guitarist Chris Stein shared the latest update on the new album. “With John Congleton. New Blondie record next year,” he wrote in the caption of a ...

What makes an album cover controversial? In the classic 1984 rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, record industry executive Bobbi Flekman (played by the great Fran Drescher) finds herself ...

I t may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums ...

Every year, Exclaim! publishes a list of the worst album covers of the year — and every year, people in the comments section tell us that we're being too negative and that we should do a list of ...

New music from Shabaka, Satoko Fujii, John Patitucci as well as a meditation from soprano saxophonist Catherine Sikora. For jazz adjacent music we feature composers Julia Wolfe and Joseph Daley.

Trawling the murky depths of Bandcamp and SoundCloud turns up some of the worst album covers you've ever seen: raunchy collages by teenage edgelords, blurry clipart, and countless slurs rendered ...