Vanilla Fudge Returns With Songs From 1967
On Spirit of ’67, three members of the original band return with great versions of some of the biggest songs from that year like “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” and “Whiter Shade of Pale”
Read MoreKate Pierson Echoes B-52’s on Solo Debut
Guitars and Microphones is a slightly smoothed over version of the B-52’s kitschy mix of surf, girl group and dance party sounds
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John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers Live in 1967
A recording was discovered of the influential blues revivalist with future Fleetwood Mac stalwarts Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood + John McVie, and cuts loose
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Juliana Hatfield Three Matures on Latest Album
The Boston-based alt-rock artist & her original bandmates ease from the ’90s into 2015 to work in this era yet bring along their original sound.
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Resurrected Blues Magoos Mix Old & New
One of the great bands of the psychedelic music and garage rock eras have reunited and issued a new LP with old favorites and new tunes
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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: City Tales
Freedom Tower is kind of the JSBX version of Lou Reed’s New York – tales and jams loosely around the city singer-guitarist Spencer
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Brian Wilson’s Newest Solo Disc
Brian Wilson’s 11th solo album is ” as cheery as [its] punny title suggests, but also deeply moving and life-affirming.”
Read MorePink Floyd’s Final Notes
Pink Floyd goes out “with more a whisper than a bang for a last album” that is “not quite for fans only and not quite an album.”
Read MoreWorthy Kinks Kollection
“Rather than another half-baked rehash, this five-CD, 140-track collection is the authoritative retrospective that the Kinks’ watershed years have long deserved.”
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