Rick Springfield
Living In Oz

The ultimate live document of Grateful Dead v1.0, and candidate for the best live rock album ever, is this double LP made during the distended Aoxomoxoa sessions. It has the definitive reading of “Dark Star,” the holy grail of Dead set lists, along with “The Eleven,” a head-spinning Phil Lesh composition in 11/8 time. “Turn On Your Lovelight” is the consummate document of Ron “Pigpen” McKernan’s hippie-biker R&B, and “Death Don’t Have No Mercy” is Jerry Garcia at his dark-bluest.

Claremont 56 founder Paul "Mudd" Murphy has a thing for studio supergroups. New project Hillside follows in the footsteps of Bison (who once counted Holger Czukay, Ursula Kloss and Sal Principato amongst their members) and Paqua. Their debut single is closer in tone to the latter than the former, with opener "Hidden Port" offering a deliciously languid, wide-eyed fusion of eyes-closed jazz-rock guitar solos, unfurling kosmiche keyboards, bobbing Latin rhythms and an electric violin solo from a musician renowned for his work with British folk legend Bert Jansch. You'll find more electric violin on the wilder and more up-tempo flipside "The Kings Tun", where distinctive fiddle solos rise above jangling acoustic guitars, warm bass and spacey keyboard flourishes. Anyone fancy a cosmic hoedown?