Foreigner | Alive & Rockin’ – CD Review
When Foreigner recorded Alive & Rockin' (originally released as a DVD) in 2006 at the Bang Your Head!!! Festival in Balingen, Germany, they offered themselves up like sacrificial...
Rory Gallagher | Irish Tour ’74 – CD Review
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of release of Rory Gallagher's Irish Tour '74, Eagle Rock and Sony are behind a double-CD Special Edition and seven-CD/single-DVD boxset. It may seem like...
Dirty Honey | Mayhem & Revelry Live – Live Release Review
“When this fuckin’ riff kicks in, I want to see everybody in this fuckin’ house jumpin’, ” shouts Dirty Honey singer Marc LaBelle right before the opening riff to...
Rory Gallagher | Live At Montreux – Live Album Release
“I want to be playing when I'm 50,” Irish son Rory Gallagher stated rather matter-of-factly during a Beat Instrumental interview in June 1971. In all likelihood, the acclaimed blues...
Bob Dylan – The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration – CD & Blu-ray Disc review
You can make fun of his voice and scratch your noggin about his seemingly dour demeanor, but the one thing everyone seems to agree on about Bob Dylan is...
John Fogerty | 50 Year Trip: Live At Red Rocks – DVD/CD Review
John Fogerty is in fine form celebrating his half-century in music on 50 Year Trip: Live At Red Rocks, available on CD, vinyl and DVD. Filmed and recorded on...
Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen | Live In San Francisco 1971 –...
Reminiscent of those live country radio broadcast from the 1950s, Commander Cody’s “Lost In the Ozone” opens Live In San Francisco 1971. Taken from an evening that Commander Cody...
Keith Emerson & Greg Lake | Live From Manticore Hall – CD Review
The dynamic duo of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake (two-thirds of Emerson, Lake and Palmer) went on tour in 2010. Four years later, Live From Manticore Hall captures nine...
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention | Whisky A Go Go, 1968 –...
Billed on the world-famous Whisky a Go Go’s marquee as “Mothers Of Invention – Recording Session,” Frank Zappa and his band at the time — Ray Collins (vocals, percussion), Ian...
Johnny Cash | Setlist: The Very Best Of Johnny Cash Live – CD Review
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...
