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
‘Johnny Rivers at the Whisky à Go Go’ @60: Rockin’ on Stage
If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to dance to live rock and roll at a Los Angeles discotheque in 1964, here is your answer.
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Graham Parker ‘Squeezing Out Sparks’: Simple As a Heartbeat
The 1979 album doesn’t have a weak song or performance, and continues to be cited as the British singer-songwriter’s greatest achievement.
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Roger Hodgson Serves Up Supertramp Favorites: 2020 Review
It’s been well over 40 years since their breakout album, Breakfast in America, and the group’s principal songwriter and singer was celebrating it with fans.
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Bonnie Raitt Rebounds in the ‘Nick of Time’
Just when her career needed a boost, Raitt switched labels and came up with her biggest hit album, which took her all the way to number one
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Dion Teams with Female Artists on ‘Girl Friends’: Review
Joined by guests like Carlene Carter, Shemekia Copeland and Rory Block, the 84-year-old singer proves he can still make great music.
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Jerry Jeff Walker: More Than ‘Mr. Bojangles’
The outlaw country singer was also a first-rate songwriter, capable of sweet, evocative folk tunes of memorably iconoclastic characters
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Kiss’ ‘Destroyer’: Where the Music Finally Equaled the Image
Everyone knew the makeup, the blood and that tongue, but their records weren’t selling. Then came ‘Destroyer’ and a single that almost didn’t make the cut.
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Joni Mitchell ‘Ladies of the Canyon’: Painting the Canvas
The album sets out clearly the direction Mitchell would take for the rest of her career, leaving behind the constraints of folk music.
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Beatles Documentary, ‘Eight Days a Week’: Review
The 2016 film is “a nonstop rush of adrenaline, a comfort-food feast of melodic guitars and impeccable harmonies, unbridled creativity and boundless artistic determination, cheeky wit and newness and wonder and youth. And screams—lots of screams.”
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Genesis’ ‘Seconds Out’: From Paris With Love
Released in 1977, ‘Seconds Out’ showcased the band’s great live performances and was a major worldwide hit.
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