The Pretenders | Pretenders & Pretenders II – CD Review
Rhino has reissued Pretenders and Pretenders II , the first two albums from the Pretenders, as two-disc sets. The first disc contains a remastered version of the original album,...
Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash At San Quentin (Legacy Edition) – CD Review
“San Quentin, I hate every inch of you. You’ve cut me and you’ve scarred me through and through”
When Johnny Cash recorded Johnny Cash At San Quentin in 1969, it...
Def Leppard | Hysteria (Deluxe Edition)
Def Leppard’s Hysteria is to rock music what the Mona
Lisa is to art, or the Parthenon is to architecture — a masterpiece. Originally
released in 1987, it represented a pinnacle...
Kiss | The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Kiss Vol. 3
If you “If Kiss had never existed, you could never have made them up.”
So states Dave Thompson in his linear notes of the new The Millennium
Collection: The Best of...
Kiss | Alive! 1975 – 2000
Live albums should be mandatory for Kiss. Like a savage beast that thrives
in its natural habitat, Kiss, onstage, is king of the jungle. Not even their
best studio work comes...
John Fogerty | The Long Road Home: In Concert
John Fogerty’s survival of the iron-fisted copyright entanglement of
his old record company boss, Fantasy record’s Sal Zantz, is a testament
to the singer’s spirit and tenaciousness. The guy has always...
Grateful Dead | Live At The Cow Palace: New Years Eve 1976 – Live...
A flood of live recordings resting idly in the vault, and the keepers of the Grateful Dead flame continue to dig for new and acute angles in which to...
The Doobie Brothers | The Very Best Of The Doobie Brothers – Compilation Review
“What Doobie you be?” If you’re like me — a child of the 70s — you might recall this question being asked by Rog’s younger sister, Dee on the...
Blue Öyster Cult | Spectres | Some Enchanted Evening – CD Review
There was a spell in the cloudy haze of the 70s that Blue Öyster Cult comprised a void in my voyage of musical discovery. I saw the original lineup —...
Electric Light Orchestra | Out Of The Blue & Balance Of Power – CD...
Like diamonds, basic black, and Jello, rock music goes with anything. And when Electric Light Orchestra co-founders Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood combined pop-rock with an orchestra, the innovation...
