Shfl Update, May 19

James Brown's Musical Family, Stoner Rock, Alex Riggs, Phil Freeman, Jeff Treppel, Jon Dale

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Reviews

Jon Dale on Andrew Chalk and related projects

Alex Riggs writes about Terry Allen, The Beatles, Retribution Gospel Choir, Willis Earl Beal, Panda Bear, Liars, Oren Ambarchi, and Merzbow

Phil Freeman on King Crimson, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, and the Fania All-Stars

Zombi, The Black Dahlia Murder, Flower Travellin' Band, Soilwork, Torche, Probot, and Sorcery from Jeff Treppel

Guides

Harold Heath on James Brown’s extended musical family

Jeff Treppel on stoner rock

Recommendations

Somewhere north of 1500 recommendations from Chuck Eddy were added using these lists from his blog

Features

New best-of page! This is a bunch of shortcuts to sets of popular (well, popular on Shfl at least!) albums, sorted by decade, category, and subgenre