A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Pallas – The Sentinel (Harvest; 1984)

IQ – Seven Stories into 98 (Giant Electric Pea; 1981-82, 1998)

Twelfth Night – Smiling at Grief… Revisited (self-released; 1981/2022)

Pendragon – The Jewel (Elusive/Toff; 1985/2021)

Solstice – Silent Dance (Equinox/self-released; 1984/2020)

Quasar – Fire in the Sky (Q Records; 1982/2021)

Gabriella Smith – Lost Coast – Gabriel Cabezas, Gabriella Smith (Bedroom Community; 2021)

Asa Horvitz/Carmen Quill/Ariadne Randall/Wayne Horvitz – GHOST (Celestial Excursions/Het HEM; 2024)

Marillion – Fugazi (Parlophone; 1984/2021)

Johann Sebastian Bach – Goldberg Variations – Víkingur Ólafsson (Deutsche Grammophon; 2023)

David Cross Band – Shank Hall, Milwaukee, WI, Oct. 8, 2024 (ROIO; 2024)

Jadis – More Than Meets the Eye 25 – Anniversary Edition (Giant Electric Pea/Jadismusic; 1992/2018)

Arena – Songs from the Lion's Cage (Verglas Music; 1995)

Frost* – Milliontown (InsideOut; 2006/2021)

David Cross Band – Ludlow Garage, Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 12, 2024 (ROIO; 2024)

Frost* – Experiments in Mass Appeal (InsideOut; 2008/2021)

Frost* – Falling Satellites (InsideOut; 2016)

Frost* – Day and Age (InsideOut; 2021)

Frost* – Life in the Wires (InsideOut; 2024)

John Scofield – Uncle John’s Band (ECM; 2023)

Ka/Various artists – The Amplifier: Ka Made Rap on His Own Terms. Hear How in 7 Songs. (The New York Times; 2024)

Mach-Hommy – #RICHAXXHAITIAN (self-released; 2024)

Jussi Björling – Opera Arias, Vol. 1 (EMI Classics; 1988)

Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata – Maria Callas, Alfredo Kraus, Mario Sereni, Orquestra Sinfónica do Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisboa/Franco Ghione (Warner Classics; 1958)

Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto – Rosa Feola, Piotr Beczała, Quinn Kelsey, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra/Daniele Rustioni (Metropolitan Opera On-Demand; 2022)

Bob Dylan – O2 Universum, Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 5, 2024 (ROIO; 2024)

Bob Dylan – O2 Universum, Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 6, 2024 (ROIO; 2024)

Willow – ceremonial contrafact (empathogen deluxe) (Three Six Zero/Gamma; 2024)

Natalia Lafourcade – Hasta la Raíz (Edición Especial) (Sony Music; 2015)

Ace Bandage – Scorpion Records, Ridgewood, NY, May 18, 2023 (Archive.org; 2023)