Melissa Manchester established a strong career with her affiliation with Clive Davis’ important Arista Records. With that, she released singles like “Midnight Blue”, and a rousing cover of Peter Allen’s…
Fans of Camel will remember the keys/synth work of Peter Bardens from the band’s first album on through their sixth studio album, Breathless. These are considered the best of Camel’s…
You know the legend by now, how in the ’60s nobody knew about The Velvet Underground, but everyone who heard them started their own band. Well, for a different generation,…
Back in the early ’70s, much after their 1967 formation in Champaign, IL, R.E.O. Speedwagon released their first album on Epic Records. They were becoming increasingly popular and Epic explored…
I was first introduced to The Posies in early 1991, via a work colleague of mine. I was at my first record company job – my first job right out…
In the age of Trump, we are consumed with allegations of Fake News, the painting of journalists as enemies of the American people, and online jingoism taking the place of…
If you could call Greenslade unusual in their approach to music it would not be in the fact that the band’s instrumental approach is dominated by keyboards. We’ve seen that…
Steve Hackett, once a vital part of the nucleus of Genesis back in the ’70s, has collected a dedicated fan-base with his vast array of solo a;bums and collaborations since…
Since 1977, the LA Punk-era band, X, has delivered a strong set of albums that include their Slash Records-released 1980 debut, Los Angeles, and their subsequent six issues. To date,…
With a fondness for music that traveled in a thousand directions, I rarely delved too deeply into styles of enjoyable sounds. As such, I was lucky to have sampled a…
If you were a fan of the frenetic cover of “Roll Over Beethoven” and the band that recorded it, then you likely rode the crest of a long-running string of…
After the rise of KISS on the Casablanca label, it was the sworn intent of label head, Neil Bogart, to bring the label into contention with the top ones of…