Reckoning

For his sixteenth recording Price teamed with guitarist/producer Kid Andersen and recorded at Andersen’s Greaseland Studio in San Jose, California. Anderson and drummer Alex Pettersen are both members of Rick Estrin and The Nighcats recently voted The Band of The Year at the 2018 Blues Music Awards. Andersen assembled the remaining cast of musicians including legendary bassist Jerry Jemmott who has worked with King Curtis, Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles; Jim Pugh former keyboard player with Robert Cray; and the horn section of Johnny Bones, saxophones, and Konstantins Jemeljanovs, trumpet. The fantastic horn arrangements are by Andersen.

R.E.M. abandoned the enigmatic post-punk experiments of Murmur for their second album, Reckoning, returning to their garage pop origins instead. Opening with the ringing "Harborcoat," Reckoning runs through a set of ten jangle pop songs that are different not only in sound but in style from the debut. Where Murmur was enigmatic in its sound, Reckoning is clear, which doesn't necessarily mean that the songs themselves are straightforward. Michael Stipe continues to sing powerful melodies without enunciating, but the band has a propulsive kick that makes the music vital and alive. And, if anything, the songwriting is more direct and memorable than before - the interweaving melodies of "Pretty Persuasion" and the country rocker "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" are as affecting as the melancholic dirges of "Camera" and "Time After Time"…

California-based artist Forest Robots returns to condense his eloquent and talkative electronic instrumental music into a new selection of precious tracks, amiably suspended in the reflective atmospheres that the artist has accustomed us to savor.

Two years after their critically acclaimed acoustic/folk album, ‘The Hallowing of Heirdom’, UK Black Metal Kings Winterfylleth return in 2020 with their visceral new album, ‘The Reckoning Dawn’. The first full length metal album since 2014’s, ’The Divination of Antiquity finds the band returning at the absolute top of their game, across an expansive journey of an album. 8 Brand new songs of blistering, atmospheric and emotive Black Metal adorn the records near 60 minute running length and serve to highlight the strength and depth of material in the Winterfylleth canon.

Following the newly-released, rocking “The Underwhelming” and early spring singalong “Apocalyptical,” Puscifer are back. The unpindownable music-and-performance-art collective led by Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman and “agent-in-training” Maynard James Keenan (a.k.a. Dick Merkin) and “special agents-in-charge” Mat Mitchell (guitar, bass, keys) and Carina Round (vocals, keys) will release Existential Reckoning, a 12-song album scheduled for an October 30th arrival via Alchemy Recordings/Puscifer Entertainment/BMG.