REVIEWS:

What’s the read on the latest reissue releases and live performances by classic rock artists? What biopics, movies or documentaries are worth seeing in theaters and at home? What books about rock music and the people who make and work with it are worth reading. Our team also takes a fresh look at notable works in our Album Rewind series

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken’: Closing the Gaps

As the 1972 triple album broke all the rules it revitalized the country-rock scene and made some very old music cool again

Read More

Styx ‘Paradise Theatre’: Where Prog Met Pure Pop

The album was the band’s greatest success but with the members no longer on the same page, it was also the beginning of the end.

Read More

Traffic’s ‘Welcome to the Canteen’: Together Again

The front album cover didn’t even call them Traffic; it just listed the names of the musicians. But there was no mistaking who they were.

Read More

Cheap Trick ‘In Color’: The Radio-Ready Sophomore LP That Put Them on the Map

Cheap Trick broke musical and lyrical boundaries, even defying the look of a rock band with a couple of rock stars and a couple of nerds.

Read More

Mott the Hoople ‘All the Young Dudes’ Generates Some Hoopla

The album, with its Bowie-written title track, emphasized the band’s bravado, and helped lay the foundation for the ’70s glam movement.

Read More

Faces 2015 Reunion Gave Fans a ‘Glorious’ 7 Songs

Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones revived the band for one night

Read More

John Mellencamp’s Dark But Rewarding ‘Orpheus Descending:’ Review

The Rock Hall inductee doesn’t sound like he did at his peak, but his new album is heartfelt and contains several understated numbers.

Read More

R.E.M.’s ‘Document’: Not the End of the World, But the End of an Era

The Georgia band’s fifth studio album was the mark of a group spreading its wings, but also leaving something behind.

Read More

A 50th-Anniversary Blu-ray of David Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’ Film: Review

All Bowie’s goodbye speech did here was to close the door on the Ziggy phase of his career. But what a phase it was.

Read More

Aerosmith ‘Permanent Vacation’: A Rejuvenation

They’d lost their way as the ’80s lumbered along. Then, the Boston rockers remembered just who Aerosmith was. We take a look back at their classic comeback

Read More