Alice Cooper | Detroit Stories – New Studio Release Review
Old geezers over 70 shouldn’t be making records like Detroit Stories, but then Alice Cooper isn’t your typical old geezer. Aside from a few lines etched in his face,...
The Band | Stage Fright (50th Anniversary Edition) – Reissue Review
The Band's classic third album, 1970’s Stage Fright, has been remixed, remastered, and expanded into several configurations including a lush 50th anniversary deluxe edition package. There are alternate takes of songs from...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Sad-Eyed Sinatra ~ Rickie Lee Jones’ ‘Pirates’ Looks At 40
Select photos courtesy of Michael Halsband
When Rickie Lee Jones set about making the follow-up to her smashing success of a debut album, she could have easily coasted with an...
Allman Family Revival | February 13, 2021 | Ryman Auditorium | Nashville, TN –...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Kit Wood
When you think of the Allman Brothers Band, you probably envision Georgia or maybe Florida as places where they lived and worked. However,...
The Kinks | Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround – Box Set Review
For the third 50th anniversary of an album by the Kinks, BMG’s special multi-format reissue of Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One, originally released in late 1970,...
Carole King | Tapestry – Classic Commentary
The story has all the makings of a splendiferous fairy tale: Brill Building songwriter goes solo and her second record becomes one of the biggest selling albums of all time....
The Go-Go’s – DVD Review
Director Allison Ellwood pretty much goes through everything you’d ever need to know about the world’s most successful all-woman band in her documentary The Go-Go’s. Every band member, plus the band’s manager,...
Michael Schenker Group | Immortal – New Studio Release Review
German guitarist Michael Schenker has returned in 2021 with an all-new Michael Schenker Group release entitled Immortal and it surely lives up to its title. This is the first...
Dire Straits | Dire Straits – Lost Gem
In 1978, the Newcastle-born Dire Straits burst onto the music scene with their self-titled debut album Dire Straits, which was released on the Vertigo Records label then a division...
Patch & Tweak With Moog – Book Review
In the annals of synthesizer innovation, pros and amateur musicians both bow to the Moog. The synthesizer that bears its inventor’s name — Robert Moog...
