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.

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The 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.

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Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg Reissue: ‘No Resemblance Whatsoever’

There are moments of beauty that will make you wish a third collaboration had happened.

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‘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.”

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Elvis 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

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Loudon 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.

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Bob 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.

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Styx ‘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.

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Burton 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.”

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The 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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