Sting 3.0 Live (Interscope/A&M). Review by Michelle Wilson.

Twenty-three years after his Sonic Recipe for Love, Steve Stav writes a playlist for the brokenhearted victims of another corporate holiday: the first Valentine’s Day of the second Trump era.

In this latest installment of his weekly series, Christopher Long discovers and scores a secondhand vinyl copy of one of his all-time favorite LPs: 2XS (To Excess), the splendid 1982 flop from the iconic Scottish powerhouse, Nazareth.

Dan Arcamone takes a sharp left turn on his iconoclastic new jazz album, Standards, Vol. 2. Ink 19’s Stacy Zering talks with the Norwalk, Connecticut artist about the Great American Songbook, Nine Inch Nails arrangements, and the challenge of making jazz from prog rock.

Blood (American Laundromat Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.

You can say that bedrock funk bassist Bootsy Collins is The One, and you would be right on so many levels.

There’s no detail too small or scar too deep for Eels to pick up and examine in a wry musical light.

It’s hard to to live up to a name like Young Fresh Fellows when you’ve been at it for almost 40 years, but good time rock and roll never goes out of style.

The effervescent jangle of German trio A Tale of Golden Keys is intricately engineered to make your ears ask “what was that?”

The first wave of UK punk crested and shrank back, but the Mekons are still thrashing and foaming.

Billy Martin’s drumming makes me think of oxymorons like “precisely sloppy” and “intensely casual” and “red hot chill out”.

Soul jazz ensemble The Greyboy Allstars have been around so long they have grown into their name.

Following a proud tradition of weird Australian pop, The Stroppies give us the sort of incisive harmonic jangle the world needs right now.

Go ahead and call your band Great Grandpa. You better have something pretty weird up your sleeve.

It’s a perfect time to bring Sound Salvation to a wider audience via the Internet, albeit in a different form.

The Story of the Most Influential Radio Station in America

Blue Room (Ruf). Review by Michelle Wilson.

Sting & Shaggy kicked off the North American leg of their co-headlining 44/876 Tour in Jacksonville, and Michelle Wilson was on hand to see her favorite musician.

Brimming with compelling interviews, and bursting with action-packed concert performances, this newly-released DVD documentary provides music enthusiasts with a riveting, behind-the-scenes look at one of rock’s most influential festivals.

Blue and White (Very Special Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.