Stéphane Wrembel talks about Django Reinhardt the way some people talk about a first language, something learned before memory started keeping records. On Django New Orleans II: Hors-Série, he carries that vocabulary into a different neighborhood, letting Parisian strings bump into the brass and humidity of New Orleans. The result is not a tribute album so much as a conversation across decades, with Wrembel stepping to the microphone for the first time to sing Gainsbourg and discovering what his

Pat Metheny returns February 27 with Side-Eye III+, his first major studio album in six years and the debut release on his new label, Uniquity Music. Expanding the Side-Eye concept with a wide ensemble of collaborators, the album reflects Metheny’s long-term vision to unify his catalog while continuing to explore new directions in sound, structure, and collaboration.

Independence in music is often framed as freedom, but the reality is a series of decisions you cannot escape. In this conversation, Tamar Berk reflects on building a career outside the industry’s machinery, the pressures and rewards of doing it yourself, and how those experiences shaped her new album ocd, a record about looping thoughts, emotional unraveling, and the patterns that follow us whether we want them to or not.