The Beatles | 1962-1966 & 1967-1970 – Compilation Release Review

It’s hard to believe the fabled 1962-1966 (AKA The Red Album) and 1967-1970 (AKA The Blue Album) double-LP compilations were released 50 years ago. These were the first post-breakup...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Box Set – Box Set Review

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Box Set is a definitive collection of alternate outtakes and vintage live recordings. Spanning a career that exploded in 1966 and never let up for...

Buddy Holly w/ The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | True Love Ways – CD Review

Commemorating the 60th anniversary of Buddy Holly’s tragic plane crash (which also took the lives of Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson) True Love Ways presents 12 songs featuring...

Elvis Presley | Christmas With Elvis And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – CD Review

The holidays wouldn’t be the same without the King, so this season RCA Records and Legacy Recordings decided to spice things up with Christmas With Elvis And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,...

Merry Clayton | The Best Of Merry Clayton – CD Review

Providing call and response backing vocals to Ray Charles, that eerie iconic female "rape…murder" and "oooh's" to "Gimme Shelter," singing background for Carol King, Tom Jones, and even on...

Dio | The Very Beast Of Dio, Volume 2 – CD Review

Ronnie James Dio, the diminutive gentleman of heavy metal with the huge voice, was as much known as the lead singer of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Heaven and Hell...

Blodwyn Pig | Pigthology – CD Review

Maybe it was the name or the brevity of their run — Blodwyn Pig was one of those bands that shuffled through the early 70s, somewhat under the radar,...

Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Singles – Compilation Review

The Singles boxset allows one to traipse across Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s substantial oeuvre by listening to a dozen 7’’ vinyl records, with music plucked from the band’s 1970...

Captain Beyond | Lost & Found 1972-1973 – CD Review

Certainly going beyond what any of us ever thought we’d hear from super group Captain Beyond, Lost & Found 1972-1973 features never-heard-before vintage demo tracks, from these self-described “space...

Bad Company | Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy: The Very Best Of Bad Company...

In the Spring of 2015, the first two Bad Company records — the solid-rocking 1974 self-titled debut and its equally snappy 1975 follow-up Straight Shooter — were reissued with...