‘I Was Made to Be Like Her’ emerged from visions, and charts a future path for psych as a form. It’s the blissed-out late ’60s, and musicians are inventing never-heard sounds at an exponential rate.

In arena rock, the drum solo is usually your cue to go line up for a beer—or to head for the restrooms and get rid of the one you just finished. But in other traditions a drum’s message, not the motor ...

Industrial Zen is an amalgam of past lives, current beats and digital pastiches that finds John McLaughlin creating yet another musical mosaic to hang on his crowded walls. This fresh, vital and most ...

Gilzene and the Blue Light Mento Band revive Jamaica’s earliest recorded music complete with “rhumba box”, while the precocious Portico Quartet carve out their distinctive other-worldly indie jazz ...