Scrappy, funky, punky Evergreen find their earliest material redone with bonus live tracks on this compendium.

Enslaved Africans in early America invented the banjo, a combination of several indigenous African instruments.

Montrealite Spencer Krug’s latest brainchild, Dragonslayer, is the third full-length collaboration with Camilla Wynne Ingr, Michael Doerksen and Jordan Robson-Cramer

Hill Country Revue is a must-own for even the most casual of blues lovers.

Grand Forks, N.D.-turned-Los Angeles singer/songwriter Tom Brosseau’s third full-length for FatCat, Posthumous Success (named for a chapter in an Albert Camus biogra

End-of-summer music must have attitude. May is for poppy beats and shallow messages to make your hips swing easier and you drink more beer.

A little-known Southern California punk and hardcore band of the late ’80s and early ’90s went by the name 411.

On paper, Swan Lake — the Canadian indie super-group featuring Destroyer (née Daniel Bejar), Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown) and Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes) — seems

Karass’ sprawling debut is an exercise in frank, point-counterpoint philosophy.

The Concord label has performed a public service for jazz lovers by compiling this budget-priced two-CD set of the 25 songs recorded together by iconic trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist S