The Beatles Celebrate 50 Years of Abbey Road With New Mix
What can be said about The Beatles these days. They were there at the infancy of Rock; they were the first progressive band changing as they moved along. And with…
What can be said about The Beatles these days. They were there at the infancy of Rock; they were the first progressive band changing as they moved along. And with…
Penguin Cafe Orchestra left behind a beautiful library of five avant-garde classic albums (back when avant-garde was used as a term to classify hard to classify art-styled music). From their…
The music of Russian Circles has always created a refreshing, if not assault-like quality. In fact, it’s surprising to me that they’re not better known than they are. With seven…
Lou Reed has become one of Rock’s most enigmatic stars, equalled by few. His reticence with the press is legendary. But his affiliation with those whom he had great respect…
When the Canadian duo, Lightning Dust, released their last album (Fantasy – 2013), the world was a different place. Then, I was a long-time resident of Southern California. Now, I…
Throughout The Replacements‘ brief career, which professionally lasted from 1981 through 1990, Westerberg and crew issued a short supply of excellent albums, seven in all. One of those, Don’t Tell…
Since their eponymous and historic 1976 debut, The Ramones had livened up music with an intended punk flavor indicative of their NYC locale. From that great album and through the…
Jethro Tull is representative of classic ProgRock as much as Yes or even ELP. In their own delivery, Jethro Tull performed well throughout a richly changing musical landscape, never compromising…
For me, Iggy Pop helps to define the magic and power, the illusion and fable, and the merge of Rock and Roll. Any of his performances are more powerful than…
Black Sabbath certainly – and heavily – contributed to the metal style that was taken to innumerable styles and levels after them. Using society, politics (and their numerous wars), and…
Caravan, by releasing their self-titled first album back in the early days of Rock, helped to progress Rock n Roll into a phase of changes. Those changes involved introducing popular…
Throbbing Gristle, formed in the ’70s as an alternative to the stadium Rock of the time, thrived on the developing nature of music as it led into the late ’70s,…