Yes: A Visual Biography – Book Review
Yes: A Visual Biography is another biography from Martin Popoff, a Canadian music journalist, critic, and author generally regarded as the preeminent heavy metal writer. Here, he leverages his acute...
The Byrds | There Is A Season – Box Set Review
Over a half-century since they first entered pop music’s consciousness, the Byrds continue to marvel and amaze a large contingency of curious fans and enthusiasts. To stir the pot...
Dave Davies | October 26, 2015 | Swyer Theater @ The Egg | Albany,...
Review by Dave Gardiner & Stan Johnson
Photos by Stan Johnson
Dedicated Kinks fans came out to see Dave Davies play an excellent set at one of our favorite venues. The...
Heart & Friends | Home For The Holidays – CD/DVD Review
In 2013, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart and a number of guests played a special Christmas show in their hometown of Seattle at the Benaroya Symphony Concert Hall....
Zephyr | Zephyr – CD Review
To some, Zephyr may merely be a footnote in the history of hard rock, as well as notable for the earliest appearances of guitar legend Tommy Bolin. Perhaps they’re...
Crowded House | August 24, 2007 | Humphrey’s By The Sea | Costa Mesa,...
by Smoochie McBride
Again the doors open to the Crowded House. The “frenz” thought it was the “enz,” but they are celebrating in the midst of a "reunion" album and...
Page & Plant | May 13, 1995 | San Diego Sports Arena | San...
Review by Shawn Perry
It had been a while since I'd seen Jimmy Page and Robert Plant together, but not as long as one may think. In 1988, I went...
Merry Clayton | The Best Of Merry Clayton – CD Review
Providing call and response backing vocals to Ray Charles, that eerie iconic female "rape…murder" and "oooh's" to "Gimme Shelter," singing background for Carol King, Tom Jones, and even on...
Johnny Winter | True To The Blues: The Johnny Winter Story – Box Set...
During a brief phone interview in 2013, I asked Johnny Winter if he thought 45 years after playing Woodstock in 1969, he'd still be out playing and touring today....
George Harrison | Early Takes, Vol. 1 – CD Review
Coinciding with the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison: Living In The Material World, which premiered on HBO in October 2011, the 10-track CD, Early...

















