Todd Rundgren | Box O’ Todd – Box Set Review
Box O' Todd is a limited edition collector's box featuring previously unreleased live and studio recordings from the early 70s by legendary singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer Todd...
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...
Kansas | Another Fork In The Road – 50 Years Of Kansas – Compilation...
Kansas celebrates their 50th anniversary with Another Fork In The Road – 50 Years Of Kansas. Across three discs, containing a whopping 39 songs, we get a wide spread of...
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 Who | The Ultimate Collection – CD Review
Disclaimer: this review was written one night before John Entwistle passed away. I’m not sure if some of my comments would have changed based on the loss of one...
Cheap Trick | Setlist: The Very Best Of Cheap Trick Live
The Setlist series of live CDs draw together familiar live material with some rarer, more obscure tunes. Featuring remastered tracks, new liner notes, photos and additional bonus material, the...
Keith Emerson | Honky | At The Movies | Off The Shelf – CD...
Keith Emerson, despite a series of misfortunes and miscalculated career moves, is still considered a legendary virtuoso of the keyboards. The Nice and ELP fading in his rearview mirror,...
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...
Billy Joel | The Hits – CD Review
The 40th anniversary of Billy Joel’s first solo album, the often maligned, sometimes forgotten and supposedly terribly mixed Cold Spring Harbor comes around 2011. For now, the wonderfully stripped...
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...
