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Dude Awakening

The Dude to Make an Album

​As everyone knows, The Dude was in the music business, briefly. As a roadie for Metallica during the Speed Of Sound tour. The band was, reportedly, a bunch of assholes.Now the Dude, using his professional alias Jeff Bridges, will record an album with Oscar and Grammy award winner T-Bone Burnett f ... More >>

New Release Tuesday: The Bird and The Bee

Ray guns are not just the future, but this album sure isAs the new year heats up and more new releases come out, it may get more confusing and overwhelming to wade through the many new albums that are released. I am here, however, to take your hand and guide you through the albums that may not get a ... More >>

Permanent Records

Jazz stars revisit tunes from the best jazz label ever

John Coltrane

One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note
(Impulse! Records)

Jaylib

Champion Sound (Stones Throw)

Jimmy Smith

The man about jazz comes to town

Madlib

Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note (Blue Note)

This Year's Model

Norah Jones is a retro-chic ride on a pop highway crowded with look-alikes. And so far, she's got the lane all to herself.

True Confessions

In the sensitive, acoustic-emo world of Dashboard Confessional, boys do cry

Bring In the Funk

Phoenix's Dislocated Styles tears the roof off the sucker

Shango-La

Pulling influence from Cobain as well as Coltrane, Charlie Hunter leads the charge for alt. generation jazz