Rolling Stones’ ‘Beggars Banquet’ Reissue: Review

The album saw them moving back to basics for an album that relied largely on acoustic blues. There’s not a rotten apple in the bunch.

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Jimi Hendrix ‘Electric Ladyland’ 50th Deluxe: Review

Half a century after its arrival, the last album Hendrix released before his death is the subject of a fittingly major anniversary limited edition.

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The Ramones’ ‘Road to Ruin’ Deluxe Edition: Review

Today, all four of the group’s original members are dead but the music lives on, and it’s a good deal better than many listeners realized in 1978.

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Eric Clapton Plays 2 at Madison Square Garden

Though he’s no longer touring, Slowhand is still performing. He played a pair of October 2018 shows at MSG with a 7-piece band

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Oct 2, 2018: Beatles Recording Engineer Geoff Emerick Dies

He started working as an assistant recording engineer as a teenager, and went on to become engineer for the Beatles on most of their monumental works

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Rolling Stones Postpone 2020 Tour

The announcement cited the ongoing pandemic. The 15-date stadium tour would have marked their first concerts since last summer’s North American tour

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Behind Dave Mason’s ‘Alone Together’: Exclusive Book Excerpt

Every Dave Mason record actually looked different from every other one, because the plant manager dropped colored pellets into the boiling plastic.

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Sam Cooke’s Early Years Collected in 5-CD Set: Review

Cooke’s years at Keen found him taking his first steps away from gospel, including the session that would yield his first smash hit, “You Send Me.”

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America’s Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell: 10 Questions (+ Tour Dates Galore!)

“We’re influenced by the times we live in and the changes we go through growing up. It’s a special thing to be able to reflect those events in a song.”

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Glyn Johns, Prolific Rock Producer: Book Review

The famed producer/engineer behind some of rock music’s most memorable albums pens a “sensible and down-to-earth” book about his life among the stars

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