George Thorogood And The Destroyers Live In Boston, 1982: The Complete Concert Craft Recordings George Thorogood has been making music since the early 1970s, with his roots firmly grounded in the Delta Blues. However, when he formed The Delaware [...]
Paul McCartney McCartney III MPL/Capitol Paul McCartney has always used music to get through difficult times. In 1970, when the Beatles split, he came out with the classic McCartney in 1980. As Wings were falling apart, McCartney gave us [...]
The Kinks Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One: 50th Anniversary Edition Box-Set BMG Originally released in the winter of 1970, Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround gave The Kinks their biggest hit single in five years, [...]
Splinter Never Went Back Gonzo Multimedia British duo Splinter’s first three albums were released on George Harrison’s Dark Horse Records label between 1974 and 1977. Although they were never able to match the success of their debut, they [...]
Belle And Sebastian What To Look For In Summer Matador Records Those that did not have the chance to see Belle and Sebastian live might question how both their musically and lyrically intricate material would transfer to a live performance. [...]
Guided By Voices Styles We Paid For Rockathon Records The new Guided By Voices album wasn’t supposed to be like this. At the beginning of the year, band mastermind Robert Pollard was plotting an album recorded entirely with analog equipment, [...]
Chris Cornell No One Sings Like You Anymore Universal Music Few, if any, can take a cover and adapt it in a manner quite like Chris Cornell could. This was previously apparent through his 2007 transformation of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”, [...]
Coco Reilly Coco Reilly Golden Wheel Records The number of current artists trying to channel music from the bygone years of rock grows by the day. In most cases, they try to mimic certain genre or genres concentrating more on style than [...]
Mary Hopkin A Christmas Chorale Mary Hopkin Music Mary Hopkin made a welcome and surprising return to the music world in 2020 with Another Road. Now, she is back with A Christmas Chorale. Here, Hopkin works with her two children, Morgan [...]
Lee Fields & The Expressions Big Crown Vaults Vol. 1 Big Crown Records “Genre: Soul/ Funk” this download states, and ain’t that the truth. Field’s soul roots go back to the classic era of the ‘60s, and it is apparent on this “from the [...]
The White Stripes The White Stripes Greatest Hits Third Man Records/Columbia Records It happens to the best of the best of them–and the dynamic Detroit duo of Jack and Meg White, who performed under the moniker of The White Stripes, [...]
Edward McCormack Rest In Place Independent Rest In Place is McCormack’s follow-up to Astral/Aphotic, released in June 2020. With McCormack quantity does not affect quality, quite the reverse actually. He presents a collection of 15 moving [...]
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Outtakes Brubeck Editions If ever there was a single album that acted as a gateway to the genre for generations of jazz school students while also managing to push the style forward, so much so that it’s lasting [...]
Bastille Goosebumps Republic Records/ Universal Music Bastille continues to push the possibilities for electro-pop music on its surprise EP Goosebumps. While the title track is a perfect single to entice listeners, “survivin’” is actually better [...]
Nils Frahm Tripping With Nils Frahm Erased Tapes Saying these days that the music of an artist belongs to the category of modern classical doesn’t mean much, mainly because the word ‘category’ sticks out. Many of such artists, [...]
Audio Visceral Gnu Two Ewe Tarantula Tapes Hailing from Vankleek Hill, Ont., Audio Visceral, is a three-piece punk outfit of beer drinking deviants. They have just released Gnu Two Ewe, after having partnered with Tarantula Tapes. The album is [...]
Smudge All Stars Smudge All Stars Pegdoll Records Back in the ‘90s, an Australian rock band called Smudge, was raved about by Lemonheads main man Evan Dando. Frankly, quite a good band that should have had more exposure. Smudge All Stars? [...]
Luca Wilding Luca Wilding Abbey Records Another new day, another singer/songwriter, another debut EP. Sounds too familiar? In most cases, yes. In others, however, you sense that there might be something substantial on its way. Luckily for London [...]
The Smashing Pumpkins Cyr Sumerian Records The latest double album release by The Smashing Pumpkins, Cyr, featuring 20 new songs written by leader Billy Corgan, was bound to be a hit-and-miss affair with [...]
The War On Drugs Live Drugs Super High Quality Records When The War On Drugs released their rightfully acclaimed Lost In a Dream album back in 2014, they were confirmed as certainly one of the best bands of the last decade. A Deeper [...]
JORDAN REYES SAND LIKE STARDUST American Dreams Records Ambient country might be a relatively new category for some, and it seems to be developing in popularity. After listening to Sand Like Stardust, new album by experimental artist Jordan [...]
Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas III Smalltown Supersound After 11 years, Norwegian electronic duo Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas release the latest installment in their grand musical adventure. As a follow-up to their 2009 album II, III features [...]
Dr. John Gumbo Blues Cleopatra Records Dr. John was a raspy-voiced, early ‘60s, New Orleans born, rock ‘n’ roll and R&B guitarist and arranger, late-’60s night-tripping voodoo rock king, piano-playing ‘70s walking encyclopedia of Crescent [...]
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Live In San Francisco ’16 ATO Records It has become standard in modern music to say that a certain artist or band is “on a roll”. Usually that means that they have issued a series of releases or have [...]
