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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.
An Exhaustive Rascals Box Set: Review
It’s Wonderful: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings makes room for stereo and mono versions of the first four LPs plus single edits, alternate takes and foreign-language versions.
Read MoreA Joe Meek Anthology Unearths Some Gems: Review
You’ll have to dig through a bit of fool’s gold to find it, but if you’re a fan of Meek’s work and the so-called girl-group era, you will encounter some gems.
Read MoreFrank Zappa & the Mothers Live at the Whisky 1968: Review
By the time of this concert, the band had established themselves as a one-of-a-kind underground rock outfit.
Read MoreRevisiting the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Super Deluxe Edition
For many it’s the crowning achievement of the Beatles and rock itself. You want to believe these mixes are new recordings
Read MoreA Box Set Collects Four Joni Mitchell Asylum Albums: Review
She followed her muse in multiple directions, taking one chance after another, and most of the time, succeeding brilliantly.
Read More‘I See You Live on Love Street’ Samples the Abundant Laurel Canyon Music Scene: Review
The set includes Frank Zappa, the Mamas and the Papas, Love, the Turtles, Warren Zevon, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Linda Ronstadt and many more.
Read MoreA New David Bowie Box Chronicles the Creation of ‘Ziggy Stardust’: Review
Included on the five CDs are 67 songs, among them demo, rehearsal and alternate mixes.
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