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

Van Morrison and ‘Moondance’: A Brand New Day

Always singing as if his life depends on a good take, the 1970 album is a lesson in musical brilliance, flexibility and hard work.

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Rickie Lee Jones’ Debut: Hipster Chic, Beyond Laurel Canyon

She reached beyond folk, rock and blues influences then dominant among Los Angeles’ singer-songwriters, looking to earlier generations of songsmiths.

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Genesis’ ‘A Trick of the Tail’: A New Beginning

The album proved that Genesis was set to achieve commercial and artistic successes beyond what they’d accomplished during the Peter Gabriel years

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New ‘Boutique Sounds of Swinging London’ Anthology: Review

The 3-disc collection features hits by the Kinks, the Yardbirds and the Troggs but also many impossibly rare sides.

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Bob Seger ‘Against the Wind’: Rockin’ the Mainstream

It’s difficult to discern any one Seger album that stands out overall. Yet even now, this 1980 release still ranks as one of Bob’s best.

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Alice Cooper #1 Breakthrough: Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper was still a band, not just one guy, and this was the album that started their transition from novelty act to classic rock legends.

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Robby Krieger’s Soul Savages—Old-School Rock, By and For Old Souls: Review

While Krieger’s guitar is prominent on these 10 tracks, this sounds like a working band.

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John Prine ‘The Missing Years’: With the Heartbreakers

The album, with its great lineup won him the first of his four Grammys.

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Yes’ ‘The Yes Album’: Brilliance Under Pressure

Their record label was looking for commercial progress in order to justify keeping them under contract. This 1971 classic put the band on the prog map

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Doobie Brothers—’What Were Once Vices…’: The End of an Era

The LP took the Doobies to heights previously unreached, even as no one could know how close the band was to the end of its first era.

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