Many creative people — be they painters, poets, or piano players — look back at their older work and see things they wish they had done differently. Most just don’t do anything about it. But with Vapor Trails Remixed (CD, vinyl, digital), Rush are fixing what they regard as one of the biggest mistakes of their forty-five year career.
Rush have announced that they’ll release Clockwork Angels Tour, a live album and video recorded during their most recent tour, on November 19.
The concert collection was recorded at three shows on their most recent tour.
With a jazz trio consisting of Steve Swallow on bass, a pianist with the last name of Bley, a horn player, and no drummer, it’s understandable that the new album Trios (ECM) by Swallow, pianist Carla Bley, and saxophonist Andy Sheppard might make some fans of dark and moody jazz think of the Jimmy Giuffre 3, the early-’60s trio which consisted of Swallow, pianist Paul Bley (Carla’s then husband), and Giuffre on clarinet. But while Trios has a similarly dark mood and palette, that’s where the similarities end.
Motorhead have announced that they’ll release their new album, Aftershock, on October 22.
The album is their twenty-first, and will include fourteen new songs.
A sonic architect in the true sense of the word, nine inch nails mastermind Trent Reznor has always done what he can to push his music and the tools he uses to make it. Which he proves once again with hesitation marks, his first album as nine inch nails since 2008’s the slip. But the problem with being a mad musical scientist is that not all of your experiments work as well as the others.
It would be easy to dismiss Somewhere (CD, digital) as just another live album by the jazz trio of pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock, and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Because, quite frankly, that’s what it is.
But that kind of misses the point. Instead, Somewhere is really yet another great live album by the best jazz trio around, and arguably the strongest album this threesome has produced.
In 1986, The Cult recorded their third album, Peace, with Love producer Steve Brown at the helm. But unhappy with the results, the band rerecorded many of the songs with Rick Rubin, redubbing the disc Electric. Now both albums are being rereleased in the appropriately titled Electric Peace (CD, vinyl), and while this may seem like a no-brainer for fans, it really depends on what Cult albums you like, and how good of a stereo you own.
In 1971, four years after jazz saxophonist John Coltrane passed away, his wife Alice assembled some songs he’d recorded in 1965 for the posthumous album Sun Ship.
But rather than just released them as they had originally been recorded, Alice Coltrane had a couple of the tracks edited, and even combined two different versions of a song into a single tune.
Now, more than thirty years later, and six years after Alice’s passing, the uncut versions of those original sessions are finally being released as Sun Ship The Complete Session (CD, vinyl), a double disc set that includes every note Coltrane and his band recorded that day.