Last year, the masked, anonymous, post-Ghost British quasi-metal duo Sleep Token merited a great deal of discussion in Eli Enis’ great Stereogum piece about the new class of stadium-metal acts. Since then, Sleep Token have had a banner year. They scored their first-ever #1 album with Even In Arcadia. They landed three songs on the […]

So… what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp, saxophonist Art Pepper, pianist Oscar Peterson, drummer Dom Um Romão, and all-around performer Sammy Davis, Jr. Haynes almost lived to see it; he died last year at […]