Tangerine Dream | Quantum Gate / Quantum Key – CD Review
First issued in 2017, Quantum Gate celebrates the 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream. This is the first studio album the band released after the 2015 passing of visionary founder...
Neil Young | Roxy: Tonight’s The Night Live – CD Review
Neil Young is as amorous about his past as he is about his present. Both are operating on full steam, thanks to a commitment to move forward while reminding...
The Who | Live At The Fillmore East 1968 – CD Review
Live At Leads, the Who's first official live album released in 1970, accurately captures the band's fiery chemistry, precociously executed, flavored with pure bluster, sweat, bravery and recklessness...
Jimi Hendrix | Both Sides Of The Sky – CD Review
Jimi Hendrix was undoubtedly an exciting guitarist to see live. It was in the studio, however, where his creative mojo percolated and pored out into music of his own...
Toto | 40 Trips Around The Sun – CD Review
Toto is one of those great musical collectives that people (hopefully unintentionally) tend to define by two hits from their most successful album — “Rosanna” and “Africa.” I’m putting...
Scorpions | Born To Touch Your Feelings: Best Of Rock Ballads – CD Review
The Scorpions have managed to maintain a 50-year career powered by the yin-yang combo of sting and sentiment. Unlike contemporaries who banshee wailed their way to success, the five-piece...
Steve Hackett | Wuthering Nights: Live In Birmingham – CD Review
Marking the 40th anniversary of Wind & Wuthering, the last Genesis studio album Steve Hackett appeared on, the guitarist’s live set Wuthering Nights: Live in Birmingham, available on two...
Yes | Topographic Drama: Live Across America – CD Review
Topographic Drama — Live Across America was recorded over 12 concerts from February 2017. For this record, this incarnation of Yes — guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Geoff Downes, bassist...
Little Richard | Here’s Little Richard (Deluxe Edition) – CD Review
At 85, Richard Penniman aka Little Richard is one of the last founding fathers of rock and roll still alive. While rumors abound that Little Richard is too old...
Kansas | Leftoverture Live & Beyond – CD Review
I had the privilege of seeing Kansas twice in 2017. Celebrating yet another rock and roll 40th anniversary, the band's break-out album Leftoverture was played from top to bottom...
