READERS’ CHOICE 2021: PART 5
Is Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk their best album? Is Northern Ireland’s Joshua Burnside an up and comer? Two Kurated contributors share.
READERS’ CHOICE 2021: PART 4
Contributor picks include Levon Helm (pictured), Tom Waits, Courtney Marie Andrews, Beth Hart, Gillian Welch, Maggie Bell and more
READERS’ CHOICE 2021: PART 3
The theme is rock and roll. Hear a one-off Springsteen and Etheridge duet. Plus New Orleans’ band the Revivalists, Nova Scotia’s Matt Mays and US-based Grace Potter
READERS’ CHOICE 2021: PART 2
George Clinton, Valerie June, Wolf Alice, Belgian artists Lili Grace and Wanthanee and dozens more are featured in Part 2 of Reader’s Choice for 2021
READERS’ CHOICE 2021 PART 1
Readers share newer artists like Mitski and Daniel Romano and older ones like Fatboy Slim and Camille Yarbrough
OLAFUR ARNALDS: SOME KIND OF PEACE
Icelandic artist plays to the sunrise on the winter solstice
NORAH JONES DREAMING OF CHRISTMAS
A superb and well-played collection of standards and originals
ADELE’S 30
A divorce and a six-year recording hiatus shape a more mature singer – musically and emotionally
HEBREW PSALMS GET A MUSICAL UPDATE
Nathan Salsburg gives centuries-old Hebrew texts a modern spin with his folk compositions on the exquisite album Psalms
BILLY BRAGG’S PANDEMIC LAMENT
The political singer-songwriter delivers a contemplative, insightful 12-song set on his new album The Million Things That Never Happened
