Daily Newsletter, November 20, 2025

From celebrity memoirs to speakers and vinyl, here are the best gifts to get the music lover in your life this year.

Exploring the future of musical expression in the wake of Paul McCartney, 'Is This What We Want?' and BBC Introducing's platforming of AI generated artists.

As the once-maligned genre of nu metal continues to get re-evaluated, here are 10 nu metal albums that even skeptics need to know.

Buffalo Springfield Again was a defining moment in L.A. music history meshing songcraft with new recording techniques that elevated the music

A recent study shows that listening to music temporarily reorganizes brain networks related to time perception.

Outstanding new releases from Paul Dunmall, Shakti, Laura Jurd and Charles Lloyd

Thelonious Monk: Alone In San Francisco (Number One Essentials 291035) Monk’s third solo album (the first was Thelonious Alone and the second Thelonious Himself) came about because producer Orrin Keepnews was in San Francisco in 1959 to record Cannonball Adderley’s quintet at the Jazz Workshop and took advantage of the opportunity to record Monk, who […]

Ballads finds Dexter Gordon at the apex of his career, doing what he does best: playing ballads. The collection is filled with choice cuts that find Gordon and company locking into sleepy pockets where each phrase is given room to dally in the space between beats. Gordon's tone is sultry and warm, as if his tenor sax had polished off a few glasses of scotch before each take. When he takes the lead, there's nothing provocative or flamboyant happening — he knows that the key to ballads isn't the number of notes in any given measure, but the quality and character of each one.

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Enjoy our latest Folk Show, featuring Cordelia’s Dad, Dubl Handi, Dyad, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Lau & Karine Polwart, Niamh Regan, M G Boulter, Lisa Knapp, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Daisy Rickman, Karina Vismara and more