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Meshuggah’s ‘Immutable’ Mission

Meshuggah’s ‘Immutable’ Mission

Tomas Haake on the tolls and triumphs of three decades behind the drums with the masters of mind-warping metal

March 16, 2022

Ian McDonald, King Crimson and Foreigner Co-Founder, Dead at 75

Multi-instrumentalist helped craft the progressive-rock cornerstone 'In the Court of the Crimson King' and played on Foreigner’s massively successful early…

February 11, 2022

Immolation’s Pitch-Black Death Metal Matures Like Fine Wine on ‘The Age of No Light’

More than 30 years after their debut, the Yonkers, New York, veterans keep perfecting their deliciously dismal soundworld

January 27, 2022

Chick Corea, Jazz Pianist Who Expanded the Possibilities of the Genre, Dead at 79

Keyboardist helped Miles Davis usher in the fusion revolution and founded his own game-changing groups, including Return to Forever

February 12, 2021

Extreme Metal Goes Symphonic With DeathOrchestra’s ‘Spirit Crusher’

Hybrid Russian ensemble puts a classical spin on the pioneering and progressive work of the band Death, and its late…

October 13, 2020

Wynton Marsalis on 12 Essential Jazz Recordings

From Louis Armstrong to Ornette Coleman, the trumpeter picks and breaks down tracks and albums that exemplify different aspects of…

April 30, 2019

King Crimson to Begin Streaming Entire Studio Catalog

All 13 of band’s studio albums will hit Spotify and other services in time for upcoming 50th anniversary tour

April 8, 2019

Review: Esperanza Spalding’s Strikingly Original ’12 Little Spells’

The genre-defying artist’s idiosyncratic vision recalls Joni Mitchell and Prince

October 22, 2018

Steely Dan: 10 Essential Songs

In honor of the late Walter Becker, we look back at some of the sly jazz-rockers' best

September 4, 2017

Tool’s Maynard James Keenan on What Army Taught Him, Band’s Earliest Days

Singer also discusses Joni Mitchell, Green Jellö and other topics chronicled in upcoming bio 'A Perfect Union of Contrary Things'

October 6, 2016