The Blue Thumb Recordings | Love – CD Review

How do you top an album as masterful and well executed as Love's Forever Changes? If you're Arthur Lee, you fire your band members and try to figure out...

Joe Satriani | Surfing With The Alien (Legacy Edition) – Reissue Review

Every now and then there seems to be someone who takes it to another level — in sports, entertainment, politics, whatever. In the world of the rock guitarist, there...

Trio Of Doom | John McLaughlin, Jaco Pastorius, Tony Williams – CD Review

Over the years, much has been said about power trios. From Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience to ZZ Top and the Police, three-piece bands harbor a delicate, yet...

Bill Bruford | Video Anthology Vol. 2 (DVD) Rock Goes To College (CD)

Bill Bruford is one musician extremely difficult to label. Having tasted success early on as a founding member of Yes — along with a reoccurring role in King Crimson and a...

Heart | Dreamboat Annie Live

Heart has broken musical ground and given rock and roll a strong, healthy pulse for 30 years. Vocalist Ann Wilson and her guitar-slinging sister Nancy shook up the 1970s music scene;...

Chicago | The Best Of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition

In the booklet of the new two-CD set, The Best Of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition, Chicago’s sax/flute player (and original member) Walter Parazaider boasts, “Going back to Glenn Miller days, I...

Refugee | Live In Concert – Newcastle City Hall 1974

So there they were: Lee Jackson and Brian Davison, the rhythm section for the Nice, left for dead on the side of the road without so much as two shillings to...

George Thorogood & The Destroyers | Bad To The Bone (25th Anniversary Edition)

I remember back ‘in the day’ my friend Tom catching George Thorogood & The Destroyers at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. Thorogood was breezing through town, promoting an album...

Various Artists | Dear Mr. Fantasy: Featuring The Music Of Jim Capaldi & Traffic

Did anybody know that Traffic was planning to regroup and tour!? This fact alone makes the new double CD concert: Dear Mr. Fantasy: Featuring The Music Of Jim Capaldi & Traffic...

Sly & The Family Stone | Greatest Hits

These days, Sly Stone is famous for being eccentric and reclusive. There was a time, however, in the late 60s and early 70s when the lanky, afro-haired musician was everywhere, especially...