TAPSheet: Release Notes – 09/12/2013 (US Report)
Previously mentioned by TAP via Steve Talia in his Talia’s Overflow Notes, Columbia and Legacy plan the release of The Complete Columbia Albums Collection featuring Bob Dylan. It now has…
Do You Collect?
I feel that, while I do miss the early years of Rock and Roll (the first 30 years specifically), I’m quite amazed at the possibilities of this time in music.…
Ramones…Just How Perfect Are They?
I fully recognize that I’m about to tread on what some will view as hallowed ground, but, what the hell, I’m going to do it anyway. This is about Ramones.…
TAPSheet: The Mission To Release New Album, The Brightest Light
There is quite a history surrounding the origination of The Mission, or, as they were known in the States, The Mission UK. Previously working with the UK-based The Sisters Of…
Who, From Your Early Years, Do You Miss Musically?
We have all enjoyed a cross section of bands and artists during our musically formative years. But there are some that we really loved. We collected every album they produced,…
Exhaustive Sets – Who Should Be Next?
Surprises abound. This is especially so with the recent announcement of the upcoming MASSIVE Box collection for Harry Nilsson, a set leaving almost no stone unlifted. It leads me to…
Unheralded Guitarists
Oh, we all know the likes of Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, and Pete Townshend. Many of us easily say that THESE guys are…
Mary Fahl To Soon Release New Album, Love And Gravity
Once a voice on October Project for their two Epic Records issues (October Project – 1993, Falling Farther In, 1995), Mary Fahl began her solo career in 2001 with a…
Reissues, Reissues, and Then, The Super Deluxe Edition
With the commentary surrounding the upcoming Elton John 40th Anniversary reissue of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road leaning toward “too much” or “double-dipping”, (and other such sets including the rash of…
Poll: Which Simple Minds Is Best?
I’m sure you all get into an artist kick now and again. I know I do. And somehow it just happens that you hear a song on the radio, or…
Rediscovering Great Bands: The Quick
You all know about The Runaways. The Runaways were Kim Fowley’s gift to the world of rock. It was his jail-bait and rock exploit, and it worked well, quite well,…
TAPSheet: Release Notes – 06/11/2013 (US Report)
Sony Masterworks have the new Tedeschi Trucks Band (Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks) album on the calendar for August 20. The new album, Made Up Mind, follows their 2011 release, Revelator,…