On July 28th, guitarist Cory Wong and saxophonist Joshua Redman released On A Random Tuesday: Live At The Blue Note, an eight-track document pulled from Wong's week-long residency at the legendary New York club. Nearly an hour of music, captured live, with none of the studio polish, just two serious players working a groove in real time. The pairing might look unlikely on paper: Wong made his name in the funk world through Vulfpeck and his own instrumental records, all "Wong-

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic and beyond. New music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With KatzPascale, Kelsey Lu, Wiki, YHWH Nailgun... Ancient History by Wiki on Wikset Enterprise underground hip-hop / abstract rap / NYC rap personal, nostalgic, urban, lyrical Bingo! by La Sécurité on Bella Union dance-punk / art punk / no wave / post-punk kinetic, bilingual, jittery, sardonic ELEGY by KatzPascale on

Out now on International Anthem / Nonesuch Records Happy Today is the third album from guitarist Jeff Parker's long-running ETA IVtet, recorded live at Lodge Room in Los Angeles on August 20, 2025, and for the first time, outside the walls of the now-shuttered bar that gave the band its name. The context matters. Parker describes 2025 as a very difficult year: displacement from the Eaton fires, family strain, political despair. The Lodge Room show became something else, a mom