KALX Specialty Charts – February 2026
Americana/Folk
- Haley Heynderickx and Matt Garcia Conover – What of Our Nature (Fat Possum)
- Sister Irene O’Connor – Fire of God’s Love (Freedom To Spend)
- Mavis Staples – Sad And Beautiful World (Anti-)
- Mitski – The Land: The Live Album (Dead Oceans)
- Marissa Nadler – New Radiations (Sacred Bones)
- Hannah Frances – Nestled in Tangles (Fire Talk)
- Joan Baez – Farewell, Angelina (Craft)
- Meklit – A Piece of Infinity (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Snocaps – Snocaps (Anti-)
- Wednesday – Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
- Jeff Tweedy – Twilight Override (dBpm)
- Robert Plant – Saving Grace (Nonesuch)
- Billy Bragg – “City Of Heroes” (Cooking Vinyl)
- Buckingham Nicks – Buckingham Nicks (Rhino)
- Alice Phoebe Lou – Oblivion (Nettwerk)
- Lucinda Williams – World’s Gone Wrong (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers)
- Brad Mehldau – Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch)
- Bruce Springsteen – “Streets of Minneapolis” (Columbia)
- Margo Price – Hard Headed Woman (Loma Vista)
- Waylon Jennings – Songbird (Thirty Tigers/Son of Jessi)
- Folk Bitch Trio – Now Would Be a Good Time (Jagjaguwar)
- Ye Vagabonds – All Tied Together (River Lea)
- Willie Nelson – Working Man: Willie Sings Merle (Legacy)
- Neko Case – Neon Grey Midnight Green (Anti-)
- West Virginia Snake Handler Revival – They Shall Take Up Serpents (Sublime Frequencies)
- Molly Tuttle – So Long Little Miss Sunshine (Nonesuch)
- Funkwrench Blues – Mischief in the Musitorium (Need to Know)
- Good Music to Lift Los Angeles (Good Music)
- John Fogerty – Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years (Concord)
- AVTT/PTTN – AVTT/PTTN (Ipecac/Ramseur/Thirty Tigers)
- The Lodestones – Ciphers Of The Saints (Psyop)
- Avi C. Engel – Mote (Fenny Compton)
- Kristen Ford – Pinto (Righteous Babe)
- Todd Snider – High, Lonesome and Then Some (Aimless)
- Bywater Call – Sunshine – Live in 2024 (S/R)
- Hilary Hawke – Lift Up This Old Worlds (Pickin’ Chicken Music)
- The Mountain Goats – Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan (Cadmean Dawn)
- Ruen Brothers – Awooo (Yep Roc)
- Julian Primeaux – Spinning Heartache Into Gold (S/R)
- Phipps Pt. – Songs We No Longer Sing (S/R)
Jazz
- SML – How You Been? (International Anthem)
- Alchemist Quintet – Ghost Radio (S/R)
- Tom Skinner – Kaleidoscopic Visions (Internatiional Anthem)
- Meklit – A Piece of Infinity (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Tortoise – Touch (International Anthem/Nonesuch)
- Cochemea – Vol 3: Ancestros Futuros (Daptone)
- Ben Lamar Gay – Yowzers (International Anthem)
- Nat Adderley Jr. Trio – Took So Long (S/R)
- Kenny Barron – Songbook (Artwork)
- Melissa Aldana -Filin (Blue Note)
- Brad Mehldau – Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch)
- Cécile McLoren Salvant – Oh Snap! (Nonesuch)
- Otherworld Ensemble – Soul Bird (Edgetone)
- Chet Baker – Swimming By Moonlight (Slow Down Sounds)
- Steve Tibbetts – Close (ECM)
- Ami Taf Ra – The Prophet And The Madman (Brainfeeder)
- Julia Hülsmann Octet – While I Was Away (ECM)
- Nicholas Payton – Triune (Smoke Sessions)
- Keith Jarrett – At the Deer Head Inn:The Complete Recordings (ECM)
- Shoko Nagai – Forbidden Flowers (Infrequent Seams)
- Funkwrench Blues – Mischief in the Musitorium (Need to Know)
- Ted Piltzecker – Peace Vibes (OA2)
- Boz Scaggs – Detour (Concord)
- Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Jazz Quartet – Armando Mi Conga (Amor de Flores)
- Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra – A Centennial Salut to Tito & Tito (Truth Revolution)
- Peter Lin and AAPI Jazz Collective – Identity (OA2)
- Barbara Dang & Muzzix – Michael Pisaro-Liu: Tombstones II (Circum-Disc)
- Michael Waldrop – Native Son (Origin)
- Carolyn Trowbridge – Found Memories (S/R)
- Jamile – Pursuit Of A Pulse (Cellar)
- Richard Carr – The Escarpment (Infrequent Seams)
- Samara Joy – “Flor de Lis (Upside Down)” (Verve)
- Lauren Henderson – Sonidos (Brontosaurus)
- Milan Verbist Trio – Time Change (Origin)
- PRAED Orchestra – The Dictionary of Lost Meanings (Discrepant)
- Keith Jarrett – New Vienna (ECM)
- Aaron Parks – By All Means (Blue Note)
- Flea – “A Plea” (Nonesuch)
- Rent Romus & Tatsuya Nakatani – Uplift (Edgetone)
- Pink Martini – Bella Caio (Heinz)
