Rhino Records With Collector Series – Now Playing
Rhino Records have begun an LP series that is being called Now Playing. The sets will contain a nice ‘best of’ collection that includes some deep cuts from favorite albums.…
Barclay James Harvest Set, XII, Gets Remaster and Remix
Barclay James Harvest, a UK-based band that released a string of over 20 studio sets. Their most popular era were in the span of the ’70s, where they issued 11…
Skafish To Reissue 1983 Classic Set As Conversation & The Rejects
In the late ’70s, Punk music began a march toward acceptance and change. Its influence toward the New Wave of the late ’70s and early ’80s makes it an essential…
Did Scooter Braun Help Make Taylor Swift The Most Powerful Pop Star?
The "Taylor's Versions" are a concrete, real-life example of what so many trite "empowerment" anthems wished to be.
Happy Holidays
Here at MusicTAP, it is my goal is inform much as I used to be as a music-obsessed kid. As 2023 rolls to a close, I want to express my…
New Philip Glass Set – Solo – Is Scheduled For Release
Philip Glass is one of this era’s great, treasured composers. He’s done soundtracks, no doubt, but his more enduring pieces are also his classical compositions that stretch into opera, solo…
5CD Box Set For Archie Bell & The Drells – The Albums: 1968-1979
Classic R&B band, Archie Bell & The Drells from Houston entered charts at an immediate pace back in 1968 with the hit, “Tighten Up”. It locked in at number 1…
Rick Wakeman To Release 4CD Box – Live At The London Palladium 2023
Rick Wakeman has finessed keyboards with the likes of Strawbs, YES, and ABWH. He has also lent his expertise to David Bowie, Elton John, and many, many others throughout his…
Ace Frehley Returns With New Album – 10,000 Volts
Ace Frehley has the legacy lock down on being the original guitar extraordinaire of KISS during their first ten albums, rejoining only briefly for their Psycho Circus set in 1998.…
4LP/2CD/BD-Audio Boxed Edition of Peter Gabriel Title – i/o In Pipeline
Since Peter Gabriel‘s years with Genesis and then his subsequent – and VERY successful – solo career, we have heard little of his music (other than previously recorded ones) for…
Rod Stewart Joins With Jools Holland To Release An Album Of Swing Standards – Swing Fever
Rod Stewart has enjoyed a long career inside the annals of Rock and Roll. First as singer for Long John Baldry, then The Jeff Beck Group, and then as the…
The Rolling Stones To Issue Next Vinyl 7″ Singles Box – 1966-1971
The Rolling Stones are an institution. As yet, they are still touring into their golden years and making new music as evidenced by the release of their newest set, Hackney…