The return of Doug Martsch and Built To Spill was a sight for sore eyes — it had been a while.

The El Michels Affair has released its fourth studio album with Black Thought of The Roots. It’s called ‘Glorious Game‘ and it’s one of my favorite albums of the year.

Scott Morgan is a Vancouver-based ambient and electronic music composer also known as Loscil. His newest release, Colours Of Air, was co-created with composer Lawrence English. It’s now available on CD or digitally from Kranky Records.

It’s hard to believe that they’ve been a band for almost 40 years and with the same line-up since 1992.

Donald Byrd’s dynamic 1973 live recording Live: Cookin’ with Blue Note at Montreux gets its first-ever official release today on what would have been the legendary trumpeter’s 90th birthday.

I’ve been a huge fan of Meg Baird since her early days with Espers and their ethereal post-folk, spaced-out psychedelic style of music.