Bob Mould - Blue HeartsIn the winter of 2019, Bob Mould bucked the era's despair with his most melodic, upbeat album in ages, Sunshine Rock. Cut to spring of 2020, and he has this to say: "We're really in deep shit now." That sentiment informs the new full length album, Blue Hearts, the raging but catchy yin to Sunshine Rock's yang. Recorded at the famed Electrical Audio in Chicago with Beau Sorenson engineering and Mould producing, Blue Hearts nods to Mould's past while

John Barnes - clarinet and sax

spanning 70 major industries - for his criminal justice reform work

Cecil Taylor

musical films from the early 1930s: Bosko Shipwrecked

creating a mesmerizing fusion of music from very different times and styles

Monsterus had become one of Christian music's most talked about new artists

this second album brings with it an added assuredness in their craft that shows how they've grown in stature as performers and players

Cristiano Porqueddu plays the 21 Greeting Cards composed for the guitar

and he registered hit records of his own

and humanity is worn out

celebrating the occasional and necessary need to turn off the TV set and tune out the outside world

In the summer of 1956