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Mr. Oizo

Stade 2

(Ed Banger)   www.edbangerrecords.com   Since Justice has gone completely prog-rock on their latest album, looks like it's up to Mr. Oizo to carry the dirty techno torch. French prod more...

Morgan Ågren/Henry Kaiser/Trey Gunn

Invisible Rays

(7d)   www.7dmedia.com   Recorded in a single day in Sweden (with a few overdubs later on), Invisible Rays finds three musicians' musicians lighting out for the territory. Drummer Mo more...

The Roots

undun

(Def Jam)   www.islanddefjam.com   Think what you may about The Roots' controversial razz at fading presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. But the fact more...

Radio Birdman

Live In Texas

(Career/Crying Sun/Citadel)   www.careerrecords.com   Can we permanently retire the word "underrated" from the rock ‘n' roll lexicon? Great is great - hell, for that matter, cla more...

Keith Jarrett

Rio

(ECM)   www.ecmrecords.com     40 years after recording his ECM debut in 1971's Facing You, legendary piano man Keith Jarrett commemorates the anniversary with another exquisite more...

Ralfe Band

Bunny and the Bull

(Ghost Ship Records)   www.ralfeband.com   Original soundtracks spend most of their lives in the shadows, occasionally emerging as a wingman for the characters, as a scene's exclamat more...

Pyrolator

Neuland

(Bureau B)   www.bureau-b.com   It's probably a lot of fun to watch Kurt Dahlke, the electronic composer and DJ who records under the name Pyrolator, perform his pulsing, pounding mu more...

Will Sexton

Move the Balance

(self-released) www.willsexton.com   Bearing a similar pedigree to his older brother Charlie, Will Sexton boasts a resume that's also tied to Austin's prodigious musical environs. If his p more...

Tycho

Dive

(Ghostly)   www.ghostly.com   Tycho's Scott Hansen explores the warmest corners of electronic music, using well-worn vintage synths to float dreamy melodies over insistent stutters a more...

Sonya Cotton

It Is So

(self-released)   www.sonyacotton.com   That gravity and finality of the album title should be instructive - "it is so." San Fran songbird Cotton (also a member of folk-duo Tiny Home more...


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