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Author: Todd Manning

Dub/Reggae Hardcore Punk 

Big Takeover: Bad Brains’ Rock for Light at 40

April 17, 2023April 17, 2023 Todd Manning 0 Comments 1983, Attitude, Bad Brains, Big Takeover, Daryl Jenifer, Dr. Know, Earl Hudson, HR, Ric Ocasek, Right Brigade, Rock for Light, Washington D.C.

Reflecting on the D.C. band’s unstoppable second album

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Progressive Rock Rock 

Easy Money: King Crimson’s Larks’ Tongues in Aspic at 50

March 24, 2023March 26, 2023 Todd Manning 0 Comments 1973, 50th anniversary, Bill Bruford, Discipline Global Mobile, Jamie Muir, John Wetton, King Crimson, Larks' Tongue In Aspic, Pink Floyd, Robert Fripp

Looking back on the band’s greatest album

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Punk Rock 

Shake Appeal: Iggy and the Stooges’ Raw Power at 50

February 7, 2023February 7, 2023 Todd Manning 1 Comment 1973, 50th anniversary, Columbia Records, David Bowie, Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy Pop, James Williamson, Raw Power, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, The Stooges

Looking back on a half-century of a punk rock landmark

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jazz 

The Top Ten Jazz Albums of 2022

January 4, 2023 Todd Manning 0 Comments Anteloper, Best Albums, Eric Revis, Immanuel Wilkins, jaimie branch, Jazz, Jeff Parker, Mark Turner, Mary Halvorson, Melissa Aldana, Moppa Elliot, Nasheet Waits, Nate Wooley, Top 10, Tyshawn Sorey, Will Bernard

Celebrating yet another year of supreme sonic innovation

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jazz Progressive Rock Rock 

Celestial Terrestrial Commuters: Mahavishnu Orchestra’s Birds of Fire at 50

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 Todd Manning 1 Comment 1973, 50th anniversary, Billy Cobham, Birds of Fire, Jan Hammer, Jerry Goodman, John McLaughlin, Kraftwerk, Mahavishnu, Miles Davis, Rick Laird

Looking back on a landmark album that blurred the lines between jazz and prog

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jazz 

ALBUMS: Renowned Reedist Avram Fefer Returns With Juba Lee

December 4, 2022December 4, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments Avram Fefer, Chad Taylor, Clean Feed Records, Eric Revis, Jazz, Juba Lee, Marc Ribot

His electrically charged quartet exceeds expectations on second LP

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Blues jazz 

ALBUMS: The Ramble of Doug Wamble

October 23, 2022October 23, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2022, Blues in the Present Tense, Doug Wamble, Halcyonic Records, Ken Burns, Natalie Merchant, Norah Jones

Ken Burns collaborator cools out at the crossroads of jazz and blues

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jazz 

ALBUMS: William Parker’s Tones of Home

October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments AUM Fidelity, Billy Bang, Brooklyn, Gerald Cleaver, Jazz, Joe Morris, Leena Conquest, New York, Universal Tonality, William Parker

The excellent Universal Tonality calls back to the legendary free jazz leader’s early ’00s era

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Progressive Rock Rock 

Supper’s Ready: Foxtrot by Genesis Turns 50

October 5, 2022October 5, 2022 Todd Manning 1 Comment 1972, 50th anniversary, Foxtrot, Genesis, Mike Rutherford, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, Steve Hackett, Supper’s Ready, The Beatles, Tony Banks, Watcher of the Skies

Looking back at the prog greats’ breakthrough LP

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Electronic jazz Progressive Rock 

ALBUMS: Revisiting A Far-Out Tony Williams Classic

September 5, 2022September 5, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments drums, Jazz, M.I.G. Music, Neu!, Patrick O’Hearn, Play or Die, Rush, Tom Grant, Tony Williams, Weather Report

Legendary jazz drummer’s 1980 trio LP emulates Rush, Neu!

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Soul 

ALBUMS: King Garbage’s Ace In The Hole

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2022, Heavy Metal Greasy Love, Ipecac Recordings, Jon Batiste, King Garbage, Leon Bridges, Mike Patton, SZA, the Weeknd

SZA/Jon Batiste/The Weeknd collaborators drop an R&B gem on Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings

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jazz Music Journalism 

Phil Freeman Knows His Jazz

April 3, 2022April 3, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2022, Jazz, Phil Freeman, Ugly Beauty, Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century, Zer0 Books

The acclaimed music critic and impresario delivers the only book on jazz in the 21st Century that matters

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Heavy Metal Progressive Rock 

ALBUMS: Voivod’s Synchronized Anarchy

March 28, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2022, Century Media, Heavy Metal, Nothingface, Pink Floyd, Synchro Anarchy, Voivod

This late career masterpiece oozes with passion, meaning and tension

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jazz 

Creative Jazz Titans Pay Homage to Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor

March 20, 2022March 20, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments Andrew Cyrille, Barry Altschul, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Enrique Rava, Graham Haynes, Jazz, Joe Fonda, Luciano Rosetti, Oliver Lake, pDon Cherry, William Parker

A pair of new TUM Records titles explore the artistry of two dearly departed legends

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jazz 

ALBUMS: Four From Shipp

November 26, 2021November 26, 2021 Todd Manning 0 Comments Burning Ambulance, Codebreaker, ESP-DISK, Matthew Shipp, Reels, TAO Forms, Village Mothership William Parker, Whit Dickey

The master pianist defines jazz productivity with a quartet of essential new albums

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