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.
Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie Album: Mac-To-The-Basics
What you’ve got here is Mac-to-the basics. It’s at once familiar and sparkly-new. You’re going to want to come back to it often, for a long time.
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Bob Dylan’s Sensational ‘Shadow Kingdom’: Review
If you’re a fan, don’t think twice about checking out this new collection—this performance is not just all right, it’s fantastic.
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Paul Simon Confronts Mortality on ‘Seven Psalms’: Review
The album, “an argument I’m having with myself about belief,” is gentle, sweet and worth hearing. Just leave your dancing shoes at the door.
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Stephen Stills’ ‘Live at Berkeley 1971’: An Artistic Peak
Having established himself as a major force with Buffalo Springfield and CSNY, Stills performed this dazzling solo show in California.
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‘What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?’: Soundtrack Review
The horn-based ’60s band was coming off a chart-topping album when it agreed to tour Eastern Europe. Everything went wrong, except the music.
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‘The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967’ Serves Up Little-Known Gems: Review
If you need a reminder of just how adventurous rock artists were back in ’67, this three-disc set will deliver.
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U2 Reimagine Some of Their Best Work on ‘Songs of Surrender’
The lion’s share of these recordings sound relatively enervated compared with the frequently anthemic well-known versions.
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The Kinks Chronicle Their ‘Journey’: Review
Timed to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the band’s arrival, the new set is a scaled-back affair sporting 36 tracks, many of them obscure.
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A New Box Celebrates Pink Floyd’s Classic ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ @50: Review
Both adventurous and accessible, the album is one of the most commercially successful in the history of rock.
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Mudcrutch ‘2:’ Tom Petty & Friends Making Great Music Together
Mudcrutch is an American rock band, Southern division, from the ’70s, from which Tom Petty emerged. Our review of their 2016 album…
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