Richard Buckner, like his music, is a bit of a puzzle. The only thing that rivals the range of the labels that have released…

Is the latest gem from Will Oldham a supplemental companion to Sings Greatest Palace Music or a response to the criticism that welcomed that…

Three decades ago, or so the story goes, Tom Waits would break up live sets of the late-night beatnik-bard jazz — then his calling…

In the liner notes to their fifth full-length offering, the members of Chicago’s Tub Ring scrawl a few words about how, several thousand years…

Even a preliminary listen to the first volume of Reclinerland’s Ideal Home Music Library “series” will lead you to believe the group is not…

The line between sampled and “original” performances is blurred almost entirely beyond recognition on Romances, the densely layered jazz/rock/R&B collage from Norwegian soundscape artist…

There is an incredible number of sound-portraits and lyrical clips of found sounds on Alms, the second full-length player from the Constellation duo Re:,…

You’d expect the singer/songwriter behind a somber yet matter-of-fact title like Good Grief to choose the arched-backed Atlas instead of Apollo as his muse…

For those who do not know, New Jersey — in addition to being the home of Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi — is the…