Leading off this week, the groundbreaking Blues Summit 100 project celebrates the centennial birthday of B.B. King, honouring his monumental legacy with a one-of-a-kind collaboration album. The album features a wealth of curated covers of B.B. King’s most iconic songs, recorded and tracked by blues-rock icon Joe Bonamassa and his all-star band. The enigmatic Puscifer…
The first of this week’s top picks is Satanic Rites of The Wildhearts, an album is conceived as a belated follow-up to the band’s classic debut, Earth vs The Wildhearts. These are songs of defiance and hope, of ragged glory, of true heart-on-sleeve emotion; songs that sound like no-one else on this planet (or the…
The first of this week’s six of the best is Seven Psalms, which was recorded entirely on acoustic instruments performed predominantly by Paul Simon and showcases his craft at its finest and most captivating, simply with his voice and guitar. Intended to be listened to as one continuous piece, the 33-minute, seven-movement composition transcends the…
Our super six this week kicks off with The The, who celebrated their comeback in 2018 after 20 years of absence with a glorious UK and US tour, topped by a sold-out performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the so-called Comeback Special. What started as an unforgettable live experience now turns into something…
This week’s sublime six kicks off with Teleman’s new 11-track album, Family Of Aliens, a fluid collection of glorious pop songs with a new electronic texture but retaining the sharp lyricism, buoyant guitars and instantaneous melodies for which Teleman are rightly famous. Maryland rockers Clutch deliver their 12th studio album, Book Of Bad Decisions, which…
