Much of Mirage Mirage has a sunny feel, but there’s a somber undercurrent.

The first effort from the jazz/hip-hop supergroup lives up to the pedigree of its members and exceeds expectations.

What’s Your Pleasure? is one of the few albums made since trad-disco’s revival to intimately know not only every nook and cranny of the genre’s blueprints but how to trace each aspect to present-day manifestations.

Feels like a new blueprint for what a band “reunion” should look and feel like, one worth every moment of waiting.

Given our current social and political climate, these recordings serve as a vital document of a culture and folk tradition as rich and deep as anything else the United States might have to offer.

The avant-garde walks hand in hand with the country crowd, defining a brew that draws on the past while looking toward the future.

Though Coriky does borrow elements from Fugazi, the group also stands as an amazing accomplishment in its own right.

The best of Dylan’s records share roots with the whole wide, wild corpus of American music.

Offers the opportunity to slow the pace and appreciate a world of dreams and a vision of America where orange was still a color everyone was able to appreciate.

Two delightful CDs worth of 21st-century Japanese DIY that even has occasional audible tape hiss to get you in the C90 mood.