Sam Ashley & Werner Durand - I'd Rather Be Lucky Than Good / Love Among the Immortals

Sam Ashley & Werner Durand - I'd Rather Be Lucky Than Good / Love Among the ImmortalsI'd Rather Be Lucky Than Good is a new recording collaboration of Sam Ashley and Werner Durand. Sam Ashley's mystic parables imbued with benevolent humor are drawn from a lifelong pursuit of a present day shamanism. Werner Durand's wind work on invented and traditional instruments stems from the minimalist tradition, routed through his unique study of obscure world musics. The two artists first met in Berlin in 1984 while Sam was touring Atalanta with

Amnesia Scanner's doombahton overheats into nu-metal-gabba

The album has only grown in stature since his premature death at age 31 in 1963

DATURA4 is the brainchild of Dom Mariani (frontman of legendary Australian garage rockers The Stems and Power Pop favourites DM3) and Greg Hitchcock (former You Am I and one-time New Christs' guitarist)

with this vivacious and energetic cover of Steppenwolf's classic rebel anthem

- The raw versions of the tracks found on Songs For Judy reflect an artist completely unvarnished and unafraid to allow the songs to breath and to find their own shape when performed in a solo setting

Sivan explores themes of identity

I know there are a lot of songs out there that say

the cute exchange orients the listener to a core memory of sorts

made by people who maybe hadn't written a song until a day or two before they went into the studio

Vic Firth Drumsticks and May Mics

Blood on the Tracks doesn’t just hit—it lingers

released after a 13-year hiatus