Budos Band V (Daptone) Pseudos Band? As part of the Daptone stable, Budos Band excels at dialing in various...

Marvin Gaye You’re the Man (Universal) The follow-up that never was is finally here—and honestly probably sounds...

Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan New Rain Duets (Three Lobed) Essentially a 40-minute jam divided into four...

Monsters of jazz: Led by former Charlottesville resident and current Chicagoan Christopher Dammann on upright bass,...

Faux Ferocious Pretty Groovy (Burger) When this Tennessee quartet played a C’ville house party back in 2012, they...

Cass McCombs Tip of the Sphere (ANTI-) The opener of Tip of the Sphere is an interesting mongrel—half Irish folk...

DAWN New Breed (Young Action) Danity Kane veteran Dawn Richard has forged a reputation as an R&B iconoclast,...

Tallies S/T (Kanine) Tallies kicks off with a frosty amalgam of ‘80s and ‘90s atmospheric alt rock—the Bunnymen and...

Before 2018 completely disappears in our rear-view mirrors, here’s a recap of some box sets released last year that...

As always, there are too many albums I didn’t hear in 2018, but here are 10 favorites in roughly chronological order....