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Known affectionately as El Judio Maravilloso, "the marvelous Jew," the Brooklyn-born pianist, arranger, producer and activist helped to popularize the music that would become known as salsa.

Top 50 Progressive Rock Songs The joke writes itself: "How do you know when a prog tune ends?" "When its time to flip the record over." In all seriousness, picking the best progressive rock tracks can be tricky on a practical level — projects like Thick as a Brick blurred the line between "song" and "album" in the first place. And other pieces, like Genesis epic "Suppers Ready," are so expansive that it feels weird comparing them to four-minute singles. Then theres the issue of genre: Can ...

Post-hardcore Newcomers THE CANINES Launch Debut Single “Architect” June 29, 2021 “Architect” and the Architect EP—featuring an extended intro and two instrumental versions of the track—are out today on 59 X Records. The band’s new single brings tenacious and rounded post-hardcore with mathy guitars and a vocal delivery that nods to the 00’s incarnation of alternative rock/post-hardcore. Nods to the likes of The Mars Volta, The Fall of Troy, ERRA and Co...

From Pixies to Radiohead, The Dead Weather to Soulwax, this selection of test tracks will challenge your system to sound its best.

Mars Volta Are Now Reissuing Their La Realidad de Los Sueños Records Individually If you missed out on the box set, you have a second chance to grab individual vinyl reissues of all their albums Published May 14, 2021 If you were one of those unlucky Mars Volta fans who missed out on their quickly sold-out box set La Realidad de Los Sueños, we have good news. Today the band announced they will also be repressing all their albums individually. All six of the albums contained in La Realidad ...

De-Loused in the Comatorium . It arrives digitally through Clouds Hill Recordings and is part of the massive 18-LP box set La Realidad de los Sueños, which was limited to 5000 copies and sold out upon its announcement in March. Stream Landscape Tantrums below. “Some asshole bootlegged the two-track references for this session, but the actual mixes we did back then were luckily preserved and stored in my vault for the past 20 years,” guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez previously said of the ...

El Paso experimentalists The Mars Volta present their entire oeuvre, plus unreleased treats… Words: Olly Thomas None of The Mars Volta​’s records are exactly light on head-spinning moments. To get them all together on vinyl, in one surrealist splurge, is to feast on the giddy imaginations of Omar Rodríguez-Lopéz and Cedric Bixler-Zavala. As well as remastered versions of their six studio albums, plus oft-overlooked EP Tremulant, La Realidad De Los Sueños includes an alternative versi...

Landscape Tantrums lands as part of the bands La Realidad De Los Sueños box set Published Apr 23, 2021 After giving fans a tease of the rarities inside new box set  De-Loused In the Comatorium. Titled Landscape Tantrums, the collected demos can be heard in the players below. It arrives digitally today through Clouds Hill Recordings, which is also behind the massive 18-LP box that swiftly sold out upon its announcement in March. Landscape Tantrums, "Some asshole bootlegged the two-track ref...

It would be another year before they’d actually get to finish the songs in McDonald’s R.A.R.E Records studio, last May, just a few months after the pandemic started. Three of the tracks recorded during those trips to Winchester will appear on the new EP Antumbra, which drops on April 23 via the Mexico City-based label Amatista. McDonald sings backup on the funky cut “Get Down” and the bossa-nova-flavored single “Who it Be,” which had the working title “Michael McDonald.” Throu...

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