Carl Palmer | Working Live Volume 3 – CD Review
Drummer Carl Palmer still hits very hard, very hard indeed. Carl Palmer is still pushing the limits of his drumming, pushing very hard indeed. Carl Palmer is not a...
Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble | Couldn’t Stand the Weather (Legacy Edition) –...
Greetings, everyone! I'm Hal Packer, chief curator of the National Rock Gods Museum (not to be confused with the National Rock and Roll Hall of fame, which enjoys a...
The Derek Trucks Band | Roadsongs – CD Review
The live animals that they are, the Derek Trucks Band has stirred the pot with yet another token from the road, Roadsongs. The double-disc set was recorded over two...
Roy Orbison | The Last Concert – CD Review
December 4, 1988. The last time Roy Orbison ever sang in public. He would die two days later. No stranger to hardship, the singer was on a major comeback...
John Lennon | 2010 Remasters – CD Review
It’s hard to imagine, borrowing a completely overused pun in this context, what John Lennon would be doing at 70. Speculation from those who knew him best seems to...
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...
Queensrÿche | Empire (20th Anniversary Edition) – CD Review
When asked why heavy metal bands like Motley Crüe and Poison started to lose steam in the early 90s, it’s typically the same excuse: grunge. Emerging from the same general...
Bob Dylan | The Witmark Demos – CD Review
When Bob Dylan first started, the music business was a completely different game from what it is today. Songwriters wrote the songs and different singers sang those songs. At...
Twisted Sister | You Can’t Stop Rock ‘N’ Roll – CD Review
The remaster of Twisted Sister’s 1983’s You Can’t Stop Rock ‘N’ Roll delivers the original 13 tunes with a great, deep mix. Twisted Sister's second full-length album — and...
Twisted Sister | Club Daze Vol. 1: The Studio Sessions – CD Review
Consisting of recordings from 1972-1982, the 13 tunes on Twisted Sister’s Club Daze, Vol. 1: The Studio Sessions present a raw and rough unit of New York-based rockers —...
