Reviews

Jon Dale on Royal Trux, Throwing Muses, Heidi Berry and Honey Tongue

of Montreal, Black Sabbath, Elbow, Beirut and The Fiery Furnaces from Alex Riggs

Erkin Koray, Daytimers, Grandmaster Masese and Rupa from Megan Iacobini de Fazio

Nate Patrin on Joni Mitchell, Bobby Bland, Alphonse Mouzon, ZZ Top, Curtis Mayfield, The Headhunters, Funkadelic, Stevie Wonder, Death, Pink Floyd, Neu! and The New Tony Williams Lifetime

The Messiah to put on when you need to listen to Messiah — absolutely gorgeous without excessive grandiosity — plus David Lang and Hildegard von Bingen from Sean Wood

Phil Freeman on some fusion-y Santana — I once thought that I didn’t much care for Santana but this era opened my eyes

Erkin Koray, Consortium, ABBA, Ministry, Tomita, Silver Apples and Thin Lizzy from Jeff Treppel, if nothing else don’t miss Snowflakes are Dancing

Guides

Only one this week but it’s a corker, Ned Raggett on the criminally underrated Walkabouts