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08/06/2025

AllMusic Staff Pick
Bennie Maupin
The Jewel in the Lotus

The 1974 debut by Bennie Maupin remains one of the best examples of spiritual jazz, a deep and flowing network of melodies, textures, and instrumentation choices that are subtle but heavenly. Maupin leads an incredible band that includes Herbie Hancock, Buster Williams, Billy Hart, and others, but focuses on leaving ample space for each player to gently breathe his themes in, and exhale them as something different. The result is an ambient jazz environment that's easy and uncluttered but impossible to ignore.

The Jewel in the Lotus by Bennie Maupin released in 1974. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

08/06/2025

Mean Girls star Reneé Rapp embraces her sexuality with a candid playfulness.

BITE ME by Reneé Rapp released in 2025. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

08/05/2025

Terry Reid, 1949-2025

British rock singer and guitarist Terry Reid has been long-rumored to have turned down the frontman role in Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple but instead recorded a number of respectable hard rock albums in the late '60s and early '70s, and continued making music into the 21st century.

Explore Terry Reid's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews. Learn all about Terry Reid on AllMusic.

08/05/2025

AllMusic Staff Pick
The Stills
Logic Will Break Your Heart

The wall of fizzling shoegaze guitars, sparkling production, and post-punk-inspired vocals might sound like The Stills debut album is just another forgettable and derivative offering from the 2000s indie waste bin. And yet, over two decades since its release at the tail-end of the "The Band" boom, it holds up as a starry-eyed dose of nostalgia that sounds like a happier Interpol or Editors. At a swift ten tracks, it's over and ready to repeat before you know it, with highlights "Lola Stars and Stripes," "Gender Bombs," "Changes Are No Good," and "Still in Love Song" serving as the main standouts.

Logic Will Break Your Heart by The Stills released in 2003. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

08/05/2025

The key to a good recording is something that really engages the listener without the visual aspect of seeing a performance live or on film. This month there were many albums that stood out as something worth hearing, with music ranging from the medieval age to the 2020s. Explore these aural presentations and many more in our July classical review roundup.

The key to a good recording is something that really engages the listener without the visual aspect of seeing a performance live or on film. This month there were many albums…

08/05/2025

Ranging from crushing riffs to ambient collages, Natalie Lu's debut album as Wisp secures her place as one of the definitive shoegaze artists of the 2020s.

If Not Winter by Wisp released in 2025. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

08/04/2025

AllMusic Staff Pick
Klaus Schulze
Timewind

This album, released 50 years ago this month, will sketch a barren wasteland in the mind through the wispiness of the wind-like effects. Timewind serves as splendid mood music, and the ears are forever kept busy following Schulze's electronic wandering.

Timewind by Klaus Schulze released in 1975. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

08/04/2025

Polaris Prize winner DEBBY FRIDAY's celestially inspired second album is both more introspective and hedonistic than her debut.

The Starrr of the Queen of Life by Debby Friday released in 2025. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

08/03/2025

At 89, Chicago-by-way-of-Lousiana singer/guitarist Buddy Guy remains a potent blues force.

Ain't Done With the Blues by Buddy Guy released in 2025. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

08/03/2025

AllMusic Staff Pick
Marcus Miller
Afrodeezia

The bassist's guest-filled Blue Note debut reveals in a sophisticated, exceptionally ambitious manner the labyrinthine interconnectedness of earlier sounds and rhythms -- which emerged from bo***ge and horrific suffering -- to new ones that bring the world joy.

Afrodeezia by Marcus Miller released in 2015. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

08/02/2025

After a few albums of iconoclastic pop experimentation, Detroit art-punk collective The Armed returns to the chaos of their hardcore roots.

The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed by The Armed released in 2025. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at...

08/02/2025

Jeannie Seely, 1940-2025

Arriving in 1966 as part of a wave of modern women in country that also included Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn, singer and composer Jeannie Seely brought us the classics "Don't Touch Me," "Can I Sleep in Your Arms?" and "Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You."

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