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
Fleetwood Mac: Mirage—A Return To the Top
The 1982 album, and follow-up to 1979’s more experimental Tusk, served as a return to the more polished and accessible sound of the band’s earlier work.
Read MoreThe Byrds’ ‘Younger Than Yesterday’—An Ambitious Studio Flight
Expanding beyond their trademark jingle-jangle folk-rock, the band created their most diverse, experimental recording to date.
Read MoreDan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg Reissue: ‘No Resemblance Whatsoever’
There are moments of beauty that will make you wish a third collaboration had happened.
Read More‘The Great Lost Kinks Album’: Revisiting an Overlooked 1973 Delight
Although compiled to satisfy a contractual obligation, the collection of stray tracks is “a corner of the room worth spending some time in.”
Read MoreElvis Costello & The Attractions ‘Trust’: A Dark Masterwork
The album, Costello’s fifth overall, captures the quartet at a potent but troubled peak, its title a loaded, ironic signifier
Read MoreLoudon Wainwright III’s ‘Loudon Live in London’: Review
The meat of the show is in the self-penned material, which underscores his wordplay, humor and confessional lyrics.
Read MoreBob Dylan’s Masterful ‘Blood on the Tracks’ @50
After finishing the recording sessions for his new album, the artist decided he didn’t like some of it and went back into the studio. A classic emerged.
Read MoreStyx ‘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 MoreBurton Cummings of the Guess Who: 2025 Live Review
The nearly two-hour concert was a joyous time-travel back to the heyday of the hit machine of the late 1960s and early ’70s responsible for such hits as “These Eyes,” “Laughing,” “No Time,” “Undun” and, of course, “American Woman.”
Read MoreThe Doors’ ‘Live at the Matrix’ Showcases the Band in 1967: Review
Recorded in concert before they had any hits, the performances reveal a band that was fully formed from the onset.
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