Joey Willis

The mark that Miles Davis left not only on jazz but also on hip-hop, rock, and funk cannot be overstated. This year marks what would have been the 100th birthday of the jazz legend, and the year-round centennial celebration is seeing multiple reissues from labels. As part of their Original Jazz Classics series, Craft Recordings is releasing Cookin’ with The Miles Davis Quintet featuring all-analog (AAA) mastering from the original tapes by Cohearent Audio on 180-gram vinyl.

In 1957, John Coltrane was still building the foundation of a career that would eventually alter the course of modern music. Having already established himself as a vital member of Miles Davis’s first great quintet, the fully realized artist behind Blue Train, Giant Steps, A Love Supreme, and countless other landmarks had not yet completely emerged.

Elliott Smith has become one of those artists whose life and work are difficult to separate. Author Jamie Fisher spent four years talking to just about everyone in Elliott’s life to create a clearer picture of who Elliott was and what he was like as a friend, musician, brother, and boyfriend. From the outset of

After the release of Mer de Noms, A Perfect Circle faced the difficult task of following one of the strongest debut albums of the alternative rock era. Rather than trying to recreate the sound of its predecessor, Thirteenth Step took a more focused and thematic path. Unlike their debut album, where Billy Howerdel had already written the songs prior to Maynard James Keenan joining, Thirteenth Step

There are plenty of albums that define a particular moment, but few are as inseparable from their time and place as Happy Mondays’ Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches. Released in 1990, it caught Manchester’s indie and club cultures at the point where the two were becoming almost impossible to tell apart.

Beck has always been difficult to pin down. Over three decades, he has continued to bend genres and become an icon of Alternative Rock. From the lo-fi folk and slacker rock of One Foot in the Grave and

BODEGA have spent the past decade being filed under post-punk and art rock, a label that made sense when the Brooklyn band made wiry, rhythm-heavy records that seemed to have one eye on Talking Heads, Devo, and the artier corners of punk. With All Inside Aquarium, BODEGA have turned toward straight-ahead rock. The guitars are bigger, the melodies are more prominent, and the performances have a looseness that makes this feel like a genuine change of direction for the band.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the iconic album Tweekend, The Crystal Method has embarked on a co-headlining tour with multi-award-winning British icon Paul Oakenfold. On Thursday, October 8th, the two DJs brought their Mission Underground tour to Knoxville, TN. The sold-out show took place at Knoxville’s newest venue, The 808. After its inaugural show a few days earlier with Marcy Playground, the 400-person venue is off to a very successful start. The room never felt overly crowded or too hot, even at full capacity, and the lines for restrooms and drinks moved quickly. Combined with an energetic crowd, the vibes were extremely positive.

Released in 1994, Live Through This turned Hole from a noisy underground curiosity into one of the defining bands of the alternative-rock era. It also arrived when Courtney Love was already infamous in the ’90s, a figure who seemed to attract as much attention for her public life, Kurt Cobain’s death the week before, and her unpredictable reputation as she did for the music. In fact, it’s hard to find a rock biography of a band or artist from the 90s or early aughts that doesn’t include a Courtney Love story. That notoriety can sometimes overshadow the actual records, but Live Through This makes a strong case for Love as a songwriter and frontwoman in her own right. Over 30 years later, Interscope-Capitol’s Definitive Sound Series is giving this huge album the audiophile treatment.

Caroline Rose has spent much of their career proving that settling into one sound is a pretty boring way to make records. From indie rock and country to electronic pop and psychobilly, they have consistently found new ways to approach songwriting without losing their sharp sense of humor. On