BEST CLASSIC BANDS – CELEBRATING THE ARTISTS, MUSIC AND POP CULTURE OF THE CLASSIC ROCK ERA
Lights Out! Jeff Lynne Closes Final US Tour With a Magical Set: Concert Review
The maestro capped off 2024’s 31-date North American run of Jeff Lynne’s ELO with a spectacular, hit-driven show.
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Bruce Springsteen’s Remarkably Varied ‘Tracks II: The Lost Albums’—Review
The lion’s share of this material is just as compelling as much of what he has included on his many hit albums.
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Supertramp LPs Get Half-Speed Remasters For 50th Anniversary
Crime of the Century was their era-defining third album that catapulted them to global success, along with Crisis? What Crisis?
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The Grand Funk ‘We’re An American Band’ Backstory
The song’s author, GFR drummer Don Brewer, explains how the 1973 all-time classic rock hit came about while the band was on tour. Sweet, sweet Connie…
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Hawkwind 9-Disc ‘Hall of the Mountain Grill’ Deluxe Set Due
The newly remastered album is regarded as one of the band’s finest. The 2025 collection includes previously unreleased full concerts.
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‘The Who in America 1967-69’ Book is From Tour Photographer
In ‘Their Generation,’ the band is seen backstage, onstage, at rehearsal, in studio, and at home.
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Lights Out! Jeff Lynne Closes Final US Tour With a Magical Set: Concert Review
The maestro capped off 2024’s 31-date North American run of Jeff Lynne’s ELO with a spectacular, hit-driven show.
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When REO Speedwagon Had Their Breakthrough
Talk about perseverance! It took seven studio albums before the midwestern band achieved real success. Two years later, they were at the top of the music world.
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The Band and Their Pioneering ‘Music From Big Pink’: Review
The album offered quiet songs of experience bathed in a rustic glow, with no hints of the futurism and none of the kilowatt drama then prevalent elsewhere in rock.
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10 Songs That Defined New Wave Music
New wave music wasn’t easily defined, but most fans knew it when they heard it. We chose 10 songs that, to us, were the best of the genre.
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Much-Delayed Bee Gees Biopic Said to Have Ridley Scott as Director
The narrative feature film will tell the tale of the rise of the music group, brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb.
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Feelin’ Alright: 1967-1972 British Music Box Set Arrives
The 64-track compilation celebrates “post mod grooves and heavy British R&B” from such bands as Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac and, of course, Traffic, whose song inspired the title.
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Talking Heads’ ‘More Songs About Buildings and Food’ Gets Super Deluxe Edition
Their 1978 groundbreaking second album includes “Take Me To the River,” on which producer Brian Eno suggested a slower tempo than the Al Green original.
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Barbra Streisand Joined By Dylan, McCartney on Duets Album
The album serves as a long-awaited follow-up to 2014’s #1, Platinum-certified duets collection, Partners.
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