Music Genres

Poetry by Stanley Kunitz, Jane Kenyon, KC Trommer inspires composer Herschel Garfein on new album 'The Layers'

A box set collects late 1960s material from the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, plus reviews of Hardwicke Circus, the Baseball Project, Monster Mike Welch, Elliott Murphy, and a Doc Watson tribute.

A Charles Mingus box, plus CDs from Eliza Gilkyson, Tracy Nelson, Asha Wells, and a tribute to Badfinger's Pete Ham.

Reviews of expanded reissues of Little Feat's 'Sailin' Shoes' and 'Dixie Chicken,' plus Son Volt, Ags Connolly, and Bob Bradshaw.

A unique performance event that places us at a clandestine Catholic Mass in Elizabethan times, with music by William Byrd.

Reviews of a doo-wop anthology and new albums from Sara Petite, Brian Krumm, the Anderson Council, Lars Jansson & Thomas Agergaard, Carl Dobbins Jr., Kenny Rogers, Ellis Paul, and JD Darling.

A concert that gave me a renewed appreciation for Bach's ability to rework music brilliantly for very different contexts

Bob Dylan's terrific "Shadow Kingdom" delivers imaginatively reworked version of some of his songs. Plus, a Steve Forbert reissue and a new Tremoloco CD.

Montreal's Li'l Andy delivers the imagined complete recordings of the fictitious Hezekiah Procter. Plus, five more new CDs, including a live set from Jorma Kaukonen.

A web of biographical and stylistic interconnections linked music by contemporary composers Jessie Montgomery and Avner Dorman with works by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.