Fossora, the tenth studio album from Icelandic singer-songwriter and producer Björk. (One Little Independent Records)

Marlena Shaw, the legendary jazz and soul singer behind such hits as “California Soul” and “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy,” has died at 81.  

The hegemony of Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe in the circuit of rising youth bands in New York around the middle of the 1960s was consolidated at the end of 1969 with the launch of the LP “Cosa Nuestra”. The cover photograph, a Henri Wolfe original, recreates a...

Top 10 Prog Albums Emerson Lake & Palmer 1970 / Genesis "Nursery Cryme" 1971 / Yes "Fragile" 1971 / Rush "A Farewell To Kings" 1977 / Jethro Tull "Agualang" 1971 / King Crimson "In The Court of the Crimson King" 1969 / Camel "Snow Goose" 1975 / Pink Floyd "Dark...

Them recorded garage rock classics like “Gloria” and “Here Comes the Night.”  Into The Music Wavelength Veedon Fleece It’s Too Late to Stop Now Saint Dominic’s Preview Tupelo Honey His Band and The Street Choir Moondance Astral...

Illustrator David Stone Martin was one of the most prolific and influential graphic designers of the postwar era, creating over 400 album covers. With his signature hand-drawn calligraphic lines, DSM perfectly captured the energy and spontaneity of the jazz idiom.    ...