Diversions and immersions.
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Trumpeter Dan Rosenboom has a cracklin' new duo album with drummer Matt Mayhall that'll take you back to, like, Bill Dixon 1965. Rosenboom and pals have also synchronized with a keyboard-playing cockatoo for the most uplifting video of the season.
Guitarist Scot Ray is loopin' like a mofo to stimulate peaceful inward reverberations.
Steuart Liebig mines basses and effects for ambient lurk and terror.
Urban country meditators I See Hawks in L.A. share a hopeful lope with Great Willow; dig the expansive, poetic triple bridge.
L.A. Guns bring out the darkest shades in pop-metal balladry.
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PHOTO BY DEBI DOORZ.