By Adrian Spinelli

The Chronicle’s guide to notable new music.

NEW ALBUMS Foo Fighters, “Medicine at Midnight” (Roswell/RCA):

Recorded in early 2020, the Foo Fighters’ 10th studio album was primed for a raucous world tour as the Foos planned to celebrate their 25th anniversary as a band. Dave Grohl and company kept holding the album’s release in hopes of a reprieve from the pandemic but eventually decided there was no more sense in waiting.

“We finally realized that our music is made to be heard, whether it’s in a festival filled with 50,000 of our closest friends, or alone in your living room on a Saturday night with a stiff cocktail,” Grohl wrote in a Jan. 1 letter to fans.

Produced by seventime Grammy winner Greg Kurstin, the ninetrack album sees the band at its most politically charged. “No Son of Mine” rages against political incompetence and rips like a vintage heavy metal track, while “Waiting on a War” opens softly like the acoustic version of the band’s classic “Everlong” but then unfurls into a fullon arena rock assault.

Sam Gendel & Ethan Braun, “Rio Nilo 66” (Ulyssa):

Saxophonist Sam Gendel and composer Ethan Braun’s latest release is an experimental jazz record that was conceptualized by the pair in Mexico City and recorded in Los Angeles. Gendel has made a name for himself as an outsidethebox jazz musician on labels like Leaving Records and Nonesuch, with a penchant for connecting with other likeminded creatives. Braun is a

talented composer on the rise who recently collaborated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Filled with psychedelic saxophone permutations and ambient arrangements, tracks like “1/2 Sculpture” and “Tokyo Hyatt” sound like what you could hear outside the window of a tropical ecolodge. The latter is a likely reference to the hotel where actor Bill Murray’s character stayed in the film “Lost in Translation,” as the meditative album ends with a sound bite of Murray discussing higher consciousness layered over the music.

SONG OF THE MOMENT R+R=NOW “How Much a Dollar Cost (Live)” (Blue Note):

Soon after the release of its 2018 album “Colagically Speaking,” the modern jazz fusion supergroup R+R=NOW played a monthlong residency at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Those sessions will now be immortalized on the R+R=NOW live album due out on Friday, Feb. 12, and the first single is an unreal jazz rendition of Kendrick Lamar’s “How Much a Dollar Cost.”

Glasper opens the song on keys and Terrace Martin follows on alto saxophone, before Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah on trumpet, Derrick Hodge on bass, Taylor McFerrin on synths and Justin Tyson on drums join in on the mighty number. The song, which Martin cowrote with