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The Yaogun Diaries, Part 2 —
P.K. 14

Like Re-TROS in my last installment, this band has its roots in Nanjing. They have continually played with their name, claiming it stands for various different things at different times. They have also been listed in "official" source sometimes as P.K.14, sometimes as The P.K. 14 (The Chinese language has no articles, so this is pretty common with band names). Plain old P.K. 14 seems to be the most common, so I'll go with that.

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-11-30)

Faust - Rien

Rien is the first new Faust studio release in over twenty years and they have lost none of their humor over the decades. Rien is French for Nothing and that word sums up...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2013-11-26)

Legendary Pink Dots - The Gethsemane Option

To mark their 33rd year as a band and kick off their American tour, the Dots released their first album on Metropolis Records. It is very impressive when a band, despite personnel changes over the... » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2013-11-24)

Xing Sa - Création de l'Univers

Just based on the record label — Soleil Zeuhl — most zeuhl fans will open their wallet and trigger the purchase. And indeed, fans of that style will not be disappointed, even though as a trio of... » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-11-24)

Proving It Every Night —
The Jamison Smeltz Interview

These days Jamison Smeltz can mostly be found with an alto sax in his mouth, off to one side of the stage with miRthkon, one of the bright spots in American progressive music. Heavy guitars meet woodwinds in miRthkon's complex music, and they've graced stages in North America and Europe at festivals including RIO (Carmeaux, France) and Seaprog (Seattle) — and that's just 2013. But before joining miRthkon, Smeltz played with a wide variety of other artists in a dizzying array of styles. I sat down with him after their performance at Seaprog in June 2013. » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2013-11-24)

Mike Keneally - You Must Be This Tall

In 1987 a 25-year-old guitarist, Mike Keneally, was given the unique opportunity of joining Frank Zappa’s last touring band. Anyone familiar with Zappa knows that he treated music and performance... » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2013-11-22)

Ronald Shannon Jackson RIP

I somehow missed this bit of news last month, but legendary drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson left us on October 19, 2013 at the age of 73. In addition to his prominence in the free jazz arena, he was known for adding a muscular drive to fusion recordings of the wilder variety. He died of leukemia. » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-11-22)