Nels Cline widens his eyes, gets an ultra-serious look on his face, brings his hands up. “Yes,” he says, with an exaggerated ...

In recent years, Nels Cline's albums on Blue Note have run the gamut from the lush, orchestrated romanticism of the expansive double-CD set Lovers of 2016 ...

"This was incredibly difficult, as you might imagine," Nels Cline tells us as he begins to go through his list of 10 albums that changed his life. And, indeed, we're not surprised. Anyone even ...

The Near End, the Dark Night, the County Line couldn’t be a more welcoming, or easygoing, introduction to Takuro Okada as a solo artist. Cherry-picked from recording sessions over the past decade, ...

On the new music front, it’s also a very busy week. I highlight 11 new albums below, and Bill tackles more in Indie Basement, including Edwyn Collins, Throwing Muses, Bambara, Étienne de Crécy (ft.

Nels Cline’s Consentrik Quartet has announced the March 14, 2025, release of its eponymous debut LP from the former and his bandmates: saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Chris Lightcap ...

Cline built a 15-piece ensemble around the spine of his trio The Nels Cline Singers. "Much had to be accomplished in little time—the entirety was recorded in three consecutive days, in January ...

Trumpeters Yazz Ahmed and Rachel Therrien, Guitarists Wes Montgomery and Nels Cline and AACM and PAPA artist Maia the Artiste ...

Americana singer-songwriter Charley Crockett follows his Grammy Award-nominated 2024 set with major label move, joining new ...

Nels Cline widens his eyes, gets an ultra-serious look on his face, brings his hands up. “Yes,” he says, with an exaggerated theatricality that would impress John Barrymore. “We’re on a ...