Sharon Jones
Joe Jackson's latest, a tribute to Duke Ellington, has some unexpected joys
Jackson's latest, The Duke, is out this week, and it's only a return to form in the sense that Jackson has always been defined by his inexhaustible curiosity. The Duke finds him combining elements from nearly all of his musical phases, as well as recruiting some famous friends he's made along the way, for an album that, while inconsistent on the whole, does manage to be intermittently transcendent. More
Streets of Your Town: Mavis Staples, Ryan Adams, The War on Drugs, G-Side and more
When Gabe Roth and Neal Sugarman first signed the lease on a house on Troutman Avenue in Brooklyn where they would record such modern R&B masterpieces as Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' Naturally and Charles Bradley's No Time for Dreaming, the plumbing didn't work, the electrical wiring was vintage 18th Century and—more importantly—there was no space for a recording studio. More
