Spirit of the Century ( Omnivore Recordings). Review by James Mann.

Airless Midnight (Red Herring). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Quema Quema Quema (Tiger’s Milk). Review by Julius C. Lacking.

These new collections of Christmas songs won’t have you saying “bah humbug”.

Dark Night of the Soul (Fat Possum). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Tess (Candy Cross Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Cleaver Lever (Shock Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band 50th Anniversary Collection (Legacy Recordings). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Jared Campbell shouts praises of Beats Antique and Lynx from the mountian tops, after experiencing their live shows in Orlando.

Lily and The Parlour Tricks sizzle up a hot summer night of swinging music in New York City, where May Terry time-warped her way back to the ’20s.

Man Man and the battle of Raleigh Moncrief: Hipster night at The Social, or a galactic group of multi-instrumentalists that give Jared Campbell hope for the state of music? You decide.

A Wasteland Companion (Merge Records). Review by Will Bernstein.

Apprentice to Ghosts (Lower 40 Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Alma. Review by Carl F Gauze.

Bad As Me (Anti). Review by James Mann.

I Recall Standing as if Nothing Could Fall (Dear Future Collective). Review by Andrew Ellis.

American Legacies (McCoury Music). Review by James Mann.

Darker the Night (In Music We Trust). Review by James Mann.

Gentry Bronson. Review by Robert Sutton.

Lucky for us and Cherry Red Books, Dave Thompson is a HUGE Sparks fan. Matthew Moyer calls Sparks: No. 1 Songs in Heaven his strongest piece of writing yet.