Jefferson Airplane | Surrealistic Pillow – Lost Gem
The Jefferson Airplane were the first blip on the radar screen tracking the San Francisco buzz of the mid 60s. With an inauspicious debut, the Airplane garnered little appraisal...
Bruce Springsteen | Darkness On The Edge Of Town – Lost Gem
As a born and bred New Jerseyan living and breathing rock music in the 70s, I have heralded every Bruce Springsteen album as monumental occurrence in my life. After...
Aerosmith | Toys In The Attic – Lost Gem
Toys In The Attic is, by all accounts, THE album that launched Aerosmith into the stratosphere. Released in 1975, Toys In The Attic was a natural progression as third...
Elton John | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Lost Gem
They don't make 'em like they used to. Well, at least Elton John doesn't. In the early 70s, the bespectacled piano man could do no wrong. Aided by the...
Natural Gas | Natural Gas – CD review
The flurry of musical chair one-offs surfacing seems unstoppable in this age
of let’s-see-how-deep-we-can-go-to-uncover-stuff-you-thought-was-lost-forever…Of
course, if it’s just now getting to CD, you have to wonder how long it
will be before...
Crack The Sky | Crack The Sky – Lost Gem
One can count very few progressive American bands ever rising to the level of their popular U.K. counterparts. Kansas and Styx immediately come to mind, but there are a...
Van Morrison | What’s Wrong With This Picture? – Lost Gem
Van "The Man" Morrison hasn’t always been the full fledge classic rocker he once was, but his gift for turning a lyric inside out of a melody is refreshing...
Bryan Adams | Reckless 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition – CD Review
In 1984, coming off the success of his Cuts Like A Knife breakthrough album, Bryan Adams released his fourth solo album Reckless, and it was an even bigger smash,...
Steely Dan | Everything Must Go – Lost Gem
Steely Dan’s Everything Must Go, released in 2003, is the band’s ninth and final studio album. It arrived three years after Two Against Nature, the unexpected 2000 comeback that...
Asia | Aura – Lost Gem
Asia came out of nowhere in 1982 and became a multi-platinum supergroup, selling some five million units of their self-titled debut album. They soon fell from grace as guitarist...
