As the year comes to a close, it’s time to assess some of the releases we’ve received that would make great gifts for your loved ones, related ones or your one and only. We picked through the pile and came up with a diversified selection we believe tinkles the eyes and ears of even the most discriminating music lover. Here’s five to think about….
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Bold As Love
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Looking for a box set? Expanded to five LPs or four CDs (depending on your preferred format), stuffed with extra studio and live tracks, the aforementioned booklet, plus a Blu-ray disc comprising updated stereo, mono, and Atmos mixes, Bold As Love captures the Jimi Hendrix Experience as a tight-fisted power trio cooperative at the peak of their powers. Read more…
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What Happened To Your Hair?
Got a reader on your list? What Happened To Your Hair? is the story of Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, sons of rock pioneer Rick Nelson, and how they find peace with the weight of their family’s legacy and their place in it. Read more…
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Live
BEAT
Who’s up for a live album? You can’t beat the Live (or is it Neon Heat Disease?) album by…BEAT. Calling BEAT a “creative reinterpretation” of 80s-era King Crimson is arguably misleading. If you listen closely to this quartet, you’d swear it was the real, original thing. Read more…
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Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII
Pink Floyd
Surely, there’s a movie buff you’d like to gift. Pink Floyd made a movie called Pink Floyd At Pompeii. What no one seemed to acknowledge at the time what that this was the ultimate cinematic record encompassing everything to love about Pink Floyd. That it planted the seeds for The Dark Side Of The Moon becomes obvious the minute the first pool of boiling mud flashes across the screen. Read more…
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Look Up
Ringo Starr
We all want to hear new music from our favorite Vintage Rock artists. Here’s one anyone on your list will love. And it comes from none other than Ringo Starr. With the buzz of the new breed of country music stars coming out of Nashville, and a wave of non-country music personalities embracing country music, having one of the living Beatles on board makes complete sense. Starr has tossed his ten-gallon Stetson into the ring with a country record of his own called Look Up. Read more…
