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...
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...
John Wetton | The Studio Recordings Anthology (Volume 1)
John Wetton has certainly made his mark as the singer of Asia and UK, and a member of King Crimson, Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash, Family and Roxy Music. He’s...
The Beatles | 1962 – 1966 & 1967 – 1970 – CD Review
In the liner notes for the 2010 remasters of the Beatles’ compilations 1962-1966 and 1967-1970, journalist Bill Flanagan writes that the group’s “greatest impact was on people born between...
Various Artists | The Bottom Line Archive Series – CD Review
Ah the days of The Bottom Line. The venerable small music club in the West Village of New York City has seen historic multi-night stands by Bruce Springsteen and...
Steven Wilson | Transience – LP Review
Transience features a generous slice of Steven Wilson on a double vinyl LP set. Named after a song from Wilson’s 2015 album Hand. Cannot. Erase., the three sides...
Blue Öyster Cult | Cult Classic & Hard Rock Live Cleveland 2014 – CD...
The deal Frontiers Music Srl cut with Blue Öyster Cult, who, at press time, are recording their first studio album of new music since 2001, includes the rights to...
Van Morrison | The Authorized Bang Collection – CD Review
The Authorized Bang Collection, a sprawling three CD set, presents a library of Van Morrison’s early songs when he was recording for Bang Records, founded by American producer and...
John Entwistle | Rarities Oxhumed – Volume One – Compilation Review
I often think of George Harrison and John Entwistle as two sides of the same coin; two rather fine songwriters overshadowed by the more notable and prodigious output of...
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...
