Kansas Returns With New Album, The Absence of Presence
As of today, the band Kansas has little of the lineup that produced the extraordinary classics of Leftoverture (1976), and Point of Know Return (1977). Both were multi-Platinum releases with…
Wolfmother Release Digital Issue of Rock ‘N’ Roll Baby
Wolfmother is a band that I’ve followed for a few years. Their music represented a nice signpost to the past and stayed forward moving enough to enjoy on its own…
Lou Reed Live Set, When Your Heart Turns To Ice
Lou Reed was a cultural phenomenon during his in Velvet Underground, and during his great solo career. He’s released music that, over time, has become a signpost to not only…
Fleetwood Mac Classic, Then Play On, To Get Celebration Edition
Fleetwood Mac‘s third studio set, Then Play On, was released in 1969. That’s a full six years and seven studio albums before the highly successful version of Fleetwood Mac that…
Cherry Red UK To Issue 8CD Late-Era Buzzcocks Box, Sell You Everything 1991-2014
As Punk took its hold on the world, many great pioneers began to surface, From Buzzcocks‘ inception to their debut 1977 4-track EP, Spiral Scratch, on through to their three…
Throwing Muses Returns With New Album, Sun Racket
All bands had their generational style tied into the era that they recorded and performed. For Throwing Muses, that was the ’80s into the ’90s. With Kristin Hirsch and Tanya…
Paul Weller To Issue New Album, On Sunset
Peter Weller famously led two bands to chart excellence back in the ’70s and ’80s with The Jam, and then The Style Council. After both, he launched a solo career…
Julian Cope To Release New Album, Self Civil War
Julian Cope rose to prominence in his UK band, The Teardrop Explodes. For a brief period, the band released only two album before dissolution. But the impact of those two…
Steve Howe of YES Fame To Release New Album, Love Is, And Book, All My Yesterdays
Steve Howe is the co-magician of most of the classic music of YES (with Jon Anderson), as well as co-architect of those classic years of the band, full albums included.…
Review: MELK – S/T
It’s really easy to drink the Spencer Kilpatrick Kool-Aid. The Reno-based singer-songwriter has an amazing, even intoxicating handle on pitch-perfect period strut – in most cases, Stax-infused soul – and…
Prince Titles, The Rainbow Children, and 4CD/DVD Box of Up All Nite With Prince, Coming Soon
If one thing is sure in this world, it’s that there are many, MANY Prince fans. With that, there have been a fairly steady stream of releases to appeal to…
Vinyl Review: Shine – Joni Mitchell
The resurgence of vinyl has several roots. One of them was simply people wanting back to the “old skool” method of listening to music. They believed in a “warmer” sound”.…