Geffen Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Did Steely Dan go Bisto on us and save the best for last? Maybe, just maybe. While Pretzel Logic didn't mark the end of all things The Dan, it was the final album to feature the full lineup - Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, Denny Dias, Jim Hodder, and Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter (prior to the latter joining The Doobie Brothers). It was also the last to be released while the group were actively touring, and as such can be seen as something of a swan song. Perhaps Magnus Opus is a more appropriate turn of phrase. Critically acclaimed at the time, the record sees the jazz rockers opt to tone down the instrumentals that had cost them radio play with preceding LP, Countdown to Ecstasy, and instead focus on shorter, more direct and certainly catchier tunes. That's not to mean throwaway, mind, with praise lauded on the release at the time, when it was reissued in the late 1980s and remastered a decade or so later. Back again, it still has the same impact.

Review: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Music From & Inspired By) is the official soundtrack to the highly anticipated new film in seemingly endless Hunger Games saga. The soundtrack features 'Can't Catch Me Now', written and performed by Olivia Rodrigo, alongside many of the roots music scene's most dynamic artists contributing new songs inspired by the film, including Flatland Cavalry, Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings and more.