Madeleine Peyroux (Per-Roo) first received attention on her Atlantic Records debut album, Dreamland, released back in 1996. With a beautiful approach to Jazz, she exhibited a voice not unlike Bessie…
Through the entirety of the ’70s, Bob Seger, and his Silver Bullet Band, owned plenty of the airwaves emanating from the speakers of car radios. that, of course, lead to…
It’s been a while since Cat Stevens, now currently known as Yusuf, has released an album, His last one, Roadsinger, was issued in 2009, and charted well for him. It’s…
After the deluge of press, good and bad (and sometimes unmerited overkill; see David Fricke’s loving eval of Songs Of Innocence), we may all be on U2 fatigue right now.…
When Tears For Fears released Songs From the Big Chair, the two main components of the band, Roland Orzabal, and Curt Smith, had no idea that this album would be…
Legacy Recordings have been quite busy in prepping for this upcoming holiday sessions (so have retailers, but that’s something else altogether!) In the ripples that follows the upcoming Ronnie Milsap,…
Several years ago, before I moved away from my home of 30 years (California), for the less congested, more breathable Illinois, I thought a good thing to do would be…
Last month, we reported on the upcoming new Neil Diamond album, Melody Road. It’s his first since switching from long-time label, Columbia Records to Universal, an umbrella he once recorded…
The surprise news over the last few days is the new David Bowie retrospective set arriving in November via both Parlophone (in Europe), and Legacy Recordings (in the US). As…
Not long after the announcement of the upcoming The Essential Kinks (see here), the news comes that there will be a definitive Kink box coming your way to help celebrate…
Capitol Nashville have put the highly anticipated new Lady Antebellum album, 747, on the calendar for issue on September 30. The set will get an expanded Deluxe Edition as well.…
The news of Steeltown, the second album from the Scottish band, Big Country, being reissued in April of 2014, found the excellent sophomore release by the band being pushed back…