Recordings
Best Classic Bands offers smart, informed and unbiased assessments of the latest rock album releases and reissues to offer readers guidance on what sounds they might enjoy.
Willie Nelson Does Rodney Crowell on ‘Oh What a Beautiful World’
The 2025 album arrived four days before his 92nd birthday.
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Vicki Peterson & John Cowsill Deliver ‘Long After the Fire’: Review
They serve up a diverse and mostly satisfying program that variously recalls country-rockers and the occasional Fleetwood Mac echo.
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An Anthology from Joe Meek, Britain’s Phil Spector: Review
England’s Cherry Red label has been digging into the vaults and releasing boxed sets in a series called Joe Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes.
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The Move—’Message From the Country’: Before There Was ELO
The final studio album before Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan morphed into the Electric Light Orchestra has been expanded.
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The Third Mind’s Psychedelia-Infused ‘Live Mind’: Review
The wonderfully anachronistic band’s music recalls the best of 1960s psychedelia.
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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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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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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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David Bowie’s Brilliant Last Will and Testament
His final album, ★ (Blackstar), ruminates on mortality with some of his most challenging artistry, and a serious statement about life and death.
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Rolling Stones ‘Welcome to Shepherd’s Bush’ Features Rarely Played Songs: Review
Throughout the set, the band seems to have at least as much fun as their audience.
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