Something Else! Reviews

The Something Else! webzine, an accredited Google News affiliate, has been featured in The New York Times and NPR.com's A Blog Supreme, while our writers have also been published by USA Today, UltimateClassicRock.com and Jazz.com, among others. Contact us at reviews@somethingelse reviews.com.

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The plot for 'Lines Of Now'> is the same as the Claudio Scolari Project's previous nine albums, but the idea of making music in the moment never needs to change.

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Steve Matteo surveys a new trio of deep-dive music books on Muscle Shoals, the Grateful Dead and the Record Plant with simply stunning visual presentations.

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Columbia Icefield’s ‘A Silence Opens’ teaches twice over that the soul of an artist never dies, it’s simply transferred to the art they make.

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Feature photo: Matthew Fong and Thom Varey JabFung is a Toronto-based jazz quintet whose name is an amalgamation of its co-leaders, bassist Julian Anderson-Bowes and drummer Anthony Fung. The band named after its rhythm section (Fleetwood Mac, anyone?) because it reflects the music the band is playing, with five compositionsRead More

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For the conclusion of our 2-part conversation with creative jazz drummer and composer Devin Gray, the Maine-born musician speaks of his increasing ties to Europe and how the fertile Berlin music scene environment gave him new ways to flourish. S. VICTOR AARON: So now I want to shift over toRead More

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Here is Part 1 of the SER interview with drummer/composer/bandleader Devin Gray, a passionate, hungry musician who’s both as intensely introspective as he is outgoing and engaging.

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The sad and early death of Gene Clark 35 years ago this week couldn't overshadow a remarkable stint as the Byrds' principal songwriter in the mid-1960s.

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Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' arrived 55 years ago today as one of the 1970s' most important records – and one of music's most complex joys.

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The Grammy-nominated Paul Kahn's 'Willingness' feels less like a comeback and more like a gathering of stories, of players, of time itself.

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Phillip Golub's microtonal-based 'Partisan Ship' is wildly ambitious, but the ambitions are realized.

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Released 50 years ago today, 'Rocks' is considered by some people to be the best Aerosmith album – and for good reason.

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Bobby Broom's new tribute to Sonny Rollins is a living document of influence in motion, where gratitude has finally taken form as sound.

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Chris Potter's 'Alive With Ghosts Today' shows the superior art that is produced when when the fault lines in vintage American music are blurred.

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Here is the advance single "Disparate Chase" from the exciting, upcoming duet album from Patricia Brennan & Sylvie Courvoisier, 'Talamanti.'

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With 'Live at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Catherine Russell dtreats history as a living language rather than a museum artifact.

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When Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays' 'As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls' arrived 45 years ago this month, it sounded like nothing else in my record collection.

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'Creative Courage Trouncing Career Cowardice' and 'Mirror Dimensions' are fine specimens of the unfiltered, raw free jazz that drummer Kikanju Baku does like few others.