AJA A TRACK-BY-TRACK COMPARISON BETWEEN STEELY DAN’S ORIGINAL AND THE DARCYS 2012 REMAKE It is a bold statement to attempt to remake decade defining albums. While they are generally no match for their predecessor, artists like Camper Van [...]
Elvis Costello & The Attractions Spanish Model UMe This Year’s Girl was Elvis Costello’s first of many masterpieces to be released with his band, The Attractions. When remixing the record earlier this year for its extensive deluxe release, [...]
The Beach Boys Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 (Super Deluxe) UMe/Capitol Records The post-Smile era Beach Boys is one that is often overlooked by the general public. Albums like Friends & 20/20, both lo-fi [...]
THE DOORS – L.A. WOMAN: 50 YEARS LATER At the end of the 1960s, The Doors were seemingly running out of gas. Their first two LPs were both critical and commercial darlings, however the two follow-ups were not nearly as good. Despite [...]
Tame Impala InnerSpeaker (10th Anniversary Edition) Interscope Records Although it is technically now the 11th anniversary of Tame Impala’s debut LP, we really can’t complain anytime Kevin Parker releases something. The InnerSpeaker box set [...]
GUITAR MAN PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT DECEMBER 8, 2020 Guitar Man chronicles the life and career of guitar virtuoso Joe Bonamassa, one of the few major guitar slingers around today credited with keeping the blues alive. From his early life as [...]
CROCK OF GOLD: A FEW ROUNDS WITH SHANE MACGOWAN WILDCARD DISTRIBUTION DECEMBER 4, 2020 Over the past decade or so, legendary music video and rock documentary director, Julian Temple, has brought us a fantastic film on one of Ireland’s most [...]
Elvis Costello Hey Clockface Concord Records Over the last 40 plus years, Elvis Costello has produced some of the most influential and varied work known to pop music. His virtuosity and willingness to change have given him legendary status that [...]
Yusuf/Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman² Universal Music Half a century after Cat Stevens released Tea for the Tillerman, we find Yusuf taking a retrospective look at his own breakthrough album. Fittingly enough, the concept for the album came [...]
The Lemon Twigs Songs For The General Public 4AD Returning after their previous release, ambitious rock opera Go to School, Long Island brothers Michael and Brian D’Addario get back to the basics with more straight-ahead pop songs. Songs for the [...]
The Zombies R.I.P. Craft Recordings Originally intended as the follow-up to the 1968 masterpiece, Odessey & Oracle, R.I.P went unheard for over 30 years. While it found its way out of the shadows with an official Japanese release in 2000, [...]
The Zombies I Love You Craft Recordings I Love You, a compilation that features many well-known tracks by The Zombies, was previously only available in Japan and The Netherlands. With the recent reissues from Concord Craft Recordings, this LP [...]
The Zombies The Zombies Craft Recordings The Zombies’ self-titled US debut was quite typical of ‘60s English bands. Common in those days, the US release would differ slightly from its UK counterpart which, in this case, is Begin Here. Aside from [...]
REMEMBERING RORY GALLAGHER 25 YEARS LATER A RETROSPECTIVE RANKING Rory Gallagher began his career with the power rock trio Taste in his native Ireland in the late ‘60s. After releasing two studio albums and two live recordings, the group [...]
Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin Pop Song Goodbye Boozy Records Long-time collaborators Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin are captured here in their very early days banging out riffs with tenacious brutality. Limited to just 300 copies upon its release in [...]
Ice The Ice Age RidingEasy Records In 1970, heavy psych-rockers Ice recorded their first and only album at 8-Track Studios in Chicago, Illinois. The band would break up not long after committing only 10 tracks to tape. Two of these songs were [...]
Rory Gallagher Check Shirt Wizard – Live In ’77 Universal Music With the critical praise that surrounded last year’s Blues, the Rory Gallagher estate has wasted no time in releasing this double-disc’s worth of live material. [...]
Tame Impala The Slow Rush Modular Recordings A decade ago when Tame Impala’s Innerspeaker dropped, it was if Cream had a love child with The Flaming Lips. With fuzzed out guitars, dreamy melodies and Lennonesque vocals, Kevin Parker’s one-man [...]
Frank Zappa The Hot Rats Sessions (Reissue) Universal Music With Hot Rats, originally released in the fall of 1969, Frank Zappa showcased his talent by blasting through with incredible jazz-fusion-based gems. Hot Rats is the most essential Zappa [...]
The Beatles Abbey Road: 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music For most millennials discovering the Beatles music for the first time, it was through their parent’s CD or, if they were lucky, vinyl collection. [...]
JEFF BUCKLEY’S GRACE: 25 YEARS LATER Looking back on Grace, it is easy to see why the album was not a hit upon its release. In a time when grunge was king – Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam dominated the rock airwaves – Jeff Buckley’s moody [...]
THE ROLLING STONES @ BURL’S CREEK EVENT GROUNDS, ORO-MEDONTE JUNE 29, 2019 The greatest rock ‘n’ roll Band in the World returned to Canada tonight for just one show at Burl’s Creek, bringing those from Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton and more, [...]
Rory Gallagher Blues Universal Music The aptly-titled Blues was a longtime coming from the Rory Gallagher organization. Nearly 25 years after his death, this is the genre in which he is most remembered for. While other blues-based rockers from [...]
Stray Cats 40 Surfdog Records Forty years ago Brian Setzer, Slim Jim Phantom and Lee Rocker formed a trio in hopes to capture the vintage vibes of rockabilly god Eddie Cochran. Struggling to find success in their native America, they took up [...]
