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.
The Monkees Find Greatness with ‘Good Times!’
Nearly 50 years after their debut album, the 1960s pop music + TV stars return with what may be their best + truest LP yet.
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Eric Clapton’s Old Wine in a New Bottle
The master classic rock guitarist’s new album ‘I Still Do’ invites repeated listening and leads back to past Clapton pleasures.
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Reunited Original Santana Brings the Past Into the Future
Back together again with Journey’s Gregg Rolie + Neal Schon as well as Michael Shrieve, Carlos Santana revives + updates his classic sound.
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Cheap Trick’s Newest Album is Something to Savor
On their first album in seven years Cheap Trick rock like the deserving Hall of Famers that they are.
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Raitt’s Latest LP Glows with Mature Confidence
Bonnie makes an album that shows all her talents in spades: emotive singing, strong songwriting, cool way with covers and hot slide guitar.
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ZZ Top’s Gibbons Rocks the Latin Beat Solo
Sexy, saucy and set to a Latin beat, Billy Gibbons Perfectamundo allows him to shine after waiting some 45 years to go solo.
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Bryan Adams ‘Get Up’ Album: A ‘Gem’
Our reviewer called the 2015 release his favorite album of the year, describing it as a “little golden age of classic rock ‘n’ roll”
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Jeff Lynne’s ELO Alone In The Studio
The new album credited to Jeff Lynne’s ELO, Alone In The Universe, is really more of a solo effort, writes our reviewer. It’s great to have the old maestro back
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‘Cutting Edge’ Best Dylan Bootleg Yet
A fascinating in-depth look into the creative process as one of rock music’s monumental artists was recording world-changing music
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Rod the Mod Kinda Comes Back
Fans of Stewart’s golden years of too-long-ago will appreciate his return to writing songs on an album that is a mixed bag, but not without moments of merit.
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