The Flock | Heaven Bound – The Lost Album – CD Review
The Flock were one of the many bands of the 60s and 70s like Chicago or Blood Sweat & Tears caught somewhere between jazz and rock, their one distinguishing...
Cheap Trick | At Budokan – Classic Commentary
In 1978, if you wanted a copy of Cheap Trick's At Budokan, you had to plop down $11.99 for the Japanese import. Epic, in their infinite wisdom, eventually released the...
Aftershock | October 21 – 22, 2017 | Discovery Park | Sacramento, CA –...
Review & Photos by Kimberly Annette
Discovery Park in Sacramento, California, was the spot to be Saturday (October 21) and Sunday (October 22) as the ground rumbled and quaked with...
Chubby Checker | It’s Pony Time / Let’s Twist Again – CD Review
Chubby Checker's It's Pony Time and Let's Twist Again are two albums representing what was known the early 1960s as the "dance craze" in music. Hitting it big with...
Jethro Tull | This Was (40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition) – CD Review
In 1968, Jethro Tull was just another British blues band trying to make their way to the top. Back then, there was some contention as to how well a...
Steely Dan | July 12, 2014 | The Forum | Los Angeles, CA –...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Paul Hebert
I finally saw Steely Dan and now I can say what I’ve been thinking all this time: they are truly a world-class live...
The Beatles | 1962 – 1966 & 1967 – 1970 – CD Review
In the liner notes for the 2010 remasters of the Beatles’ compilations 1962-1966 and 1967-1970, journalist Bill Flanagan writes that the group’s “greatest impact was on people born between...
Becoming Led Zeppelin – Film Review
With a band as iconic as Led Zeppelin, all the time that has gone by since its inception and with all the streaming services we have presently, it’s amazing...
REM | August 9, 1999 | Greek Theatre | Los Angeles, CA – Concert...
By Lora Watters
Were they to follow through with a plan Bill Berry loosely proposed in a 1991 interview to break up one minute after midnight on New Year's Eve...
Leo Kottke | September 19, 2007 | The Concert Hall | New York, NY...
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
I’m not so sure where Leo Kottke falls in the realm of musical styles. He’s certainly regarded as an accomplished acoustic guitarist, having played with everybody...
