The Georgia Thunderbolts | Rise Above It All – Modern Vintage Review
For their second full-length release, entitled Rise Above It All, The Georgia Thunderbolts have expanded on their formula of what I like to refer to as “the new generation...
Yes | Fragile (Super Deluxe Edition) – Box Set Review
When guitarist Steve Howe came aboard the good ship Yes in 1970, the wind caught the sails just right and a chemistry began to coalesce. Together, they recorded and...
John Lennon | Mind Games (The Ultimate Collection) – Box Set Review
There are now six different ways to hear John Lennon’s Mind Games thanks to The Ultimate Collection. Believe it or not, a half-dozen mixes reveal more than you might...
Yes | Talk (30th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set Edition) – Box Set Review
After Yes completed their all-hands-on-deck Union tour in 1992, record label mogul Phil Carson approached guitarist Trevor Rabin about recording a new Yes album for his Victory label. Carson...
Deep Purple | Machine Head (Super Deluxe Edition) – Box Set Review
Over a half-century later, Deep Purple’s landmark Machine Head is still turning — ahem — heads. So, it only stands to reason, is this digital age of supersonic upgrades,...
Emerson, Lake & Powell | Complete Collection – Box Set Review
Emerson, Lake & Powell were not Emerson, Lake & Palmer. But they came close and should have been bigger. The three-CD Complete Collection from Emerson, Lake & Powell pays...
Electric Light Orchestra | Flashback – Box Set Review
There’s no shortage of box set releases when it comes to Electric Light Orchestra, though Flashback, a four-disc set released in 2000, might be the best of the lot....
Greg Lake | Magical – Box Set Review
Greg Lake’s Magical is a well-deserved career-spanning 91-track, seven-CD set. Like Lake’s band mate Keith Emerson and the Variations, we get all the solo albums, plus some tasty rare gems...
Yes | The Yes Album (Super Deluxe Edition) – Box Set Review
Now that Dolby Atmos is all the rage for audiophiles, it only makes sense to add that to a list of other remixes, ripe and ready to package with...
John Wetton | An Extraordinary Life – Box Set Review
Dearly departed John Wetton surely warrants a sprawling solo career retrospective…and he gets it with an eight-CD boxset called An Extraordinary Life. Although the bassist, vocalist, and songwriter played with...
