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.
A Box Set, ‘Watching the Sky,’ Collects the Bangles’ Best Work: Review
The 2025 release collects the band’s best work, along with a full disc of bonus material.
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Dion’s ‘The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philosopher’ Mixes Reimagined Hits & New Material: Review
The new recordings offer a mix of rockers and ballads and incorporate fresh compositions as well as reinterpretations of old favorites.
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Bob Dylan’s ‘Through the Open Window’ Explores Revealing Early Work: Review
The set aims to dig beneath the surface and hold a magnifying glass to his creative process.
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New Warren Zevon Album Features His Final Gig: Review
The 2003 Edmonton show, which proved to be his last, is featured on a 2025 well-recorded release.
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An Expanded Edition of the Beatles’ ‘Anthology Collection’: Review
If you’re a fan (and who isn’t?) and don’t already own the first three compendiums, the new set should prove irresistible.
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Before There Was Crowded House, There Was Split Enz: Box Set Review
A new 5-CD boxed set sorts out some of the New Zealand band’s earliest material.
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An Anthology Collects Instrumental Hits of 1957-62: Review
The 3-CD set delivers “just about all” the ones that made the Top 10 in the U.S. pop and R&B charts and the U.K. chart during rock ’n’ roll’s early years.
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An Anthology Features Singer/Songwriter Bobby Charles: Review
The album’s guest list includes Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Fats Domino and Maria Muldaur.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s ‘Bold as Love’ Expands on a Classic: Review
He could make a guitar talk, sing, dance or fly off into outer space, and he demonstrated all that in 1967.
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Jonathan Richman, Charmingly Quirky and Reflective on ‘Only Frozen Sky Anyway’: Review
On many of his albums, Richman has projected a sense of childlike innocence. On portions of this CD, however, he eschews that side of his personality.
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