New Orleans Joys: The Earliest Recordings, 1923- 1926 is a two disc set from the always compelling Tompkins Square. Its 53 tracks chronicles definitive early work by the pianist / composer / arranger Jelly Roll Morton. Though he claimed to have invented jazz in 1902 he was certainly its first arranger and one of its compositional architects with tunes including “King Porter Stomp” “Original Jelly Roll Blues,” “I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say,” “Black Bottom Blues” and enduring masterpieces from early 1900s New Orleans. Morton developed his musical persona as a child by absorbing the sounds all around him, including blues from whorehouses, gospel hymns, Latin sounds and rhythms, brass bands, opera, and ragtime piano players.
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Over the course of three previous albums, a documentary film and brief but influential performance on hit cable show Ted Lasso, UK one-man band 
This week, states that most people never imagined could ever turn blue did just that, as part of a massive Democratic sweep in the midterm elections. Most people, that is, except for the residents actually living in them. Texas, Kansas, Iowa, possibly even Mississippi. No place is a monolith, and our country is a rich, vibrant, and diverse place in every corner, where real people rarely line up with the stereotypes we thrust upon them. They may not all be Instagram-glamorous, but they believe in meaningful work, family (chosen, born or both), and a good joke. They love hard, they struggle, and they get shit done.
Even by the standards of an age in which artists are encouraged to maintain a constant stream of new releases to ensure that they maintain a continual presence in an attention-deficit economy, there’s something pretty startling about Bassvictim’s work rate. Peace + War is the London-based duo’s fourth project in two years: 19 more tracks to add to the 31 they’ve already released since last January. It’s a lot, but then, reading Bassvictim’s interviews you wonder if they’re simply splurging out material in the knowledge that their time is limited. The duo – Polish singer Maria Manow and Brooklyn-born producer Ike Clateman – really don’t give the impression of a band built for longevity. They have already announced their split on at least two separate…
Alanis Morissette’s first holiday album, Good Weather for Immaculate Conception, is a mix of recognizable favorites (like “O Holy Night” and “Happy Xmas (War is Over)”) and original material (such as the standout “To an Empath at Christmas Time” and the rollicking “Christmas on the Dancefloor”). Her faithfully tender cover of Joni Mitchell’s “River” is a beautiful moment tucked amongst the celebratory festivities.
On their fourth studio album, Abalone, New York-based 
…features the original album alongside rarities, instrumentals, previously unheard songwriting demos, rehearsals, and live sessions.
…contains 51 newly-mixed audio tracks, including 27 unreleased, live, extended, and previously unheard tracks.
In “Reevaluating You”, the seventh track on Ane Brun’s I Thought We Were the Same, the singer asks, “What is the opposite of trust?” She answers, “It’s not doubt… the opposite of trust is anxiety… the fear that closes us off from others, even from ourselves.” She goes on to elaborate, “In anxiety, we seek certainty before we commit ourselves. But in trust, we commit ourselves without certainty… trust won’t appear until we find ourselves defenseless”. This theme, of course, runs through literature, psychology, and religion: the idea that there’s no substitute for the “Kierkegaardian leap”, a psycho-spiritual movement beyond rational and/or logical thinking. In Brun’s new work, the above-quoted lyrics serve as a mid-project explication as she explores matters of love, loss, and identity.
Whisper it quietly, but there’s something stirring on the banks of the River Trent. Whether it be the excellent Divorce (who released one of the best albums of last year in Drive to Goldenhammer), post-grungers Kagoule or the dreamy indie-pop of Vona Vella, it can’t be denied that the Nottingham music scene is in rude health right now.
We’re some way past the peak of the neo-kosmische eruption, but there’s hardly a shortage of bands in 2026 who swear by Neu!, Can, and their less widely celebrated brethren, bundled together under the questionable banner of Krautrock. It’s fair to say, then, that 
Roma is the fifth and final improvised recording from 
There is an aching heart at the centre of La Roux’s return to pop music after nearly seven years. Elly Jackson is now the solitary figure in what used to be a group, taking writing, production and performing credits on her fourth album. That singularity is reflected in the personal circumstances that drove the writing of the songs on this album, for she has freely admitted Old Flames is her response to the end of a 17-year relationship.
…features the original album newly remastered, a brand-new remix of the album from the original stems by longtime collaborator Cameron Webb, studio rehearsals and outtakes from the 1985 sessions, and the complete BBC Radio 1 Friday Rock Show session from 1986.
The greatest trick the 
…The 10th album from the Tennessee rock veterans is distinctly different to its 2024 predecessor