
With the recent 2-CD reissue of Forever Changes the album continues to astound four decades on.

Fern Knight is entrancing Renaissance fare with a psych-rock twist.

One of the great outsider creations finally makes it to CD!

Hearing “Kingdom of Love” and “Not Dark Yet” back-to-back were the highlights of the evening. I was absolutely mesmerized during both of them.

This is an engrossing set of spacey free improvisation, as much psychedelia as jazz, as African as it is Philadelphian.
I wouldn’t want to have been his merchandize seller (who we saw being caned by a wobbling Lee after a Town Hall show a few years ago, for transgressions unknown!), or for that matter his drummer or even his towel boy or bartender or banker or drug buddy, but man, being his fan on these last few years’ concert nights felt better than anything.

Last week, Arthur passed away, due to acute myeloid leukemia, in his birthplace of Memphis, Tennessee. Here, I offer my respect to one of music’s all-time greats.

This is basically what most good music is about, whether a classical symphony, a jazz excursion, a prog epic, a punk set, or a psychedelic trip (pop music is a different story altogether).

There was no place that bridged—or rather, merged—the musical worlds of punk and prog/psych more expansively, imaginatively, and organically than Japan did in 1987-1992.

A definite must-have for big fans or anyone who truly appreciates their live routine, but for those out there who prefer the less-hallucinatory side of THE MARS VOLTA, it might not be the best choice.