new release Archive
01 Oct 2025
30 Days Out, October 2025 #1: Everything Yes, Reed Turchi, Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Beths
Jazz fusion, blues, a homecoming and rock from New Zealand. It’s all great, and it’s all coming to Asheville in the next 30 days. Buckle up! Artist: Everything Yes Venue: […]
30 Sep 2025
Hundred Word Reviews, September 2025: Prog
It’s Hundred-worder time again here at Musoscribe World HQ. What’s on? Prog! Lotsa, lotsa prog. Mostly new, but one very noteworthy reissue. Markus Reuter – Truce <3 Markus Reuter is […]
24 Sep 2025
Album Review: The Brigadier — Sailing the Seven Neuroses
I reviewed The Brigadier’s Wash Away the Day back in 2017, and named it one of the year’s best. Here we are eight years later, and the Brigadier (Matt Williams […]
23 Sep 2025
Album Review: D.K. Harrell – Talkin’ Heavy
In this era of “blues lawyers” – dilettante guitarists who can afford pricey gear and private lessons, but who possess no true feel for the blues – the emergence of […]
22 Sep 2025
The Indoor Astronomy of Astronomía Interior
This feature appeared previously in SPIN Magazine. “We agreed not to make another rock and roll band,” laughs Ángel Mosqueda. Good thing, because he and Jesús Baez are already in […]
19 Sep 2025
The Mind Movies of Adrian Younge
This feature appeared previously in SPIN Magazine. Some artists combine genres as a stylistic challenge, motivated by curiosity: Can it even be done? But when Adrian Younge blends musical forms […]
10 Sep 2025
For the Blues Project, There’s No Time Like Now
The original Blues Project was the stuff of legends. Featuring an eclectic mix of New York City players drawn together by a desire to do something that brought together their […]
05 Sep 2025
Album Review: Dave Specter – Live at Space
SPACE is a popular club in the Chicago area; its calendar includes top local, regional and national acts. Being a hotbed of electric blues, the venue has its share of […]
04 Sep 2025
Album Review: The Haas Company – Thirteen
I’ve written before of my belief that fusion gave birth to smooth jazz. The latter being an unforgivable sin, I look askance at any new release presenting itself as fusion. […]
27 Aug 2025
Album Review: All Things Swamp – Dressed
So-called “swamp rock” and similar music substyles reflect the sound and culture of Louisiana’s bayou country. But music informed by the traditions of New Orleans and its environs has never […]