Crate Diggin’
New Lou Reed Biography Offers the Ultimate Narrative of the Vicious NYC Rock Romantic

New Flamenco Compilation Features a Haunting Performance from Obscure Troubadour, Juanito Mojama

The Beatles’ “Now and Then” is a Wistful Curiosity, 45 Years in the Making

‘Stop Time,’ A Crucial Archival Release of Barry Altschul, David Izenzon and Perry Robinson Live Performance Documents a Peak Moment of NYC Free Jazz

Violent Femmes Self-Titled Debut Gets 40th Anniversary Reissue

‘Fountain,’ Beloved Album By Duval Indie Rockers Common Thread Gets 30th Anniversary Reissue

New Max Roach Documentary on PBS Highlights the Music and Life of Pioneering Jazz Drummer

Five Crucial Salsa Albums from the Genre’s Golden Age

Cue Up These 5 Breeders’ Songs in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Band’s Breakthrough Album, ‘Last Splash’

Do the Reissue Creators Have a Master Plan for Forthcoming Pharoah Sanders Box Set?

Head East with Forthcoming Bob Dylan Box Set That Reframes the Rock Bard’s Live Seventies Release

Five Jimmy Buffett Ballads you Shouldn’t Ignore

Double Space is the Place | New Compilation Celebrates the Intergalactic Verse of Sun Ra

Daptone Records Drops a Heady Reggae Collab Between Sugar Minott and Victor Axelrod

Posthumous Jazz Is Dead Release Reinforces the Legacy of Influential Drummer, the Late, Great Tony Allen

The Sunset of Sonic Youth | An oral history of the band’s final U.S. show

Neil Young’s “Powderfinger,” from the Newly Unveiled Lost Album ‘Chrome Dreams,’ Reveals a Singer-Songwriter at the Height of His Powers

New Book from Alan Paul Tells the Epic Story of the Allman Brothers Band’s 1970s Era

The Kids Are Alright in Weirdly Fun Comp of 20th-Century French School House Rock

Paul McCartney’s Photos of Early Beatlemania are in a Book and on Display in London

Record Store Day 2023 | Here’s What To Expect on RSD in Jax

This Record Changed My Life
JME Contributors on the albums that turned them on their ears

Crate Diggin’ | Re: Reissues
The JME team proudly explores the least pretentious of music purchases: the vinyl reissue.

Crate Diggin’ | Birth-year records
What classic album dropped the year you were born?

Hot Off the (Re)Press | Joni Mitchell at Carnegie and R.E.M. at their peak
Two great re-pressings from iconic artists

Hot Off the (Re)Press | John Prine’s 2005 masterwork and ‘Jazz is Dead 001’
Two great albums get a vinyl reissue this week

Crate Diggin’ | Spin it Live
JME Contributors wax on their favorite live albums of all time

Crate Diggin’ | Guilty Pleasures
JME contributors own up to their embarrassing listening habits

Crate Diggin’ | Remote Work Rotation
When working from home, these are the records JME contributors like to spin

Crate Diggin’ | Record Store Day Drops
Here’s what local record shops are rolling out for June’s RSD.

Crate Diggin’ | Unsung Summer Albums
Here’s what JME contributors are spinning this summer.
