BANG: The Bert Berns Story
30 Years of Sub Pop
The Who Times Two
Both Sides of The Dead
Davis & Coltrane — The Final Tour
Live from California, it’s the Electric Flag
The Best of Muddy Waters
Detroit Rising: A Cosmic Jazz Funk Adventure
The life, music and costumes of Stevie Nicks, rock’s still-reigning witchy queen
Both Sides of the Sky , a new album from the Jimi Hendrix vaults
1960s British folk quintet, Pentangle, get a new boxed set
Sonny Rollins Goes Way Out West
Author Roger Steffens on So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
Rock Gods: Fifty Years of Rock Photography: By Robert M. Knight
The Cable Guy
Documentary
Music meets the mob in Brett Berns’ and Bob Sarles’ documentary about one of the greatest songwriters of the twentieth century BY HARVEY KUBERNIK Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, issued BANG! The Bert Berns Story Official Soundtrack for the first time on vinyl as a two LP set on December 8, 2018. […]
The Sound and the Fury
Sub Pop, the magazine-turned-record-company that launched Nirvana and Soundgarden has (not) been going out of business since 1988 BY GILLIAN G. GAAR On April 1, 2018, Sub Pop Records passed a milestone; the label turned 30. Indie music aficionados know that its history goes back much further — the very first Sub Pop release to feature […]
Review
The Who Live at the Fillmore East 1968 and the 45th anniversary expanded edition of Pete Townshend’s Who Came First BY RICHIE UNTERBERGER From the time Keith Moon joined the band in 1964, the Who were renowned as one of the most exciting live acts in rock — if not the most exciting. It wasn’t […]
Review
Rhino’s The Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition presents the original and “psychedlic” recordings in one package BY RICHIE UNTERBERGER THE GRATEFUL DEAD, AS THE BAND themselves acknowledged in the recent Long Strange Trip documentary, valued their live performances more than their studio work. Indeed, for many listeners, they were more of an experience than a […]
Jazz
Five legendary 1960 concerts given by Miles Davis and John Coltrane in Paris, Stockholm and Copenhagen are available for the first time in the latest volume in the award-winning Miles Davis Bootleg series By Harvey Kubernik In March, Columbia/Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, released Miles Davis & John Coltrane – The Final […]
History
MVD’s new release pulls from live shows at L.A.’s Whisky A Go Go and San Francisco’s Carousel Ballroom to showcase rock’s first “super-group” By Harvey Kubernik The Electric Flag was one of the premiere rock bands during 1967-1968, organized by guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who had just left the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The Electric Flag […]
Blues
Harvey Kubernik talks to Marshall Chess, Robbie Robertson, Andrew Loog Oldham and Bill Wyman about the legacy of Muddy Waters and the 60th anniversary of his debut album, The Best of Muddy Waters By Harvey Kubernik Few pieces of art have been as influential as Muddy Waters’ seminal debut album The Best of Muddy Waters, a humble piece […]
Funk
By RCN Staff Down Jazz Records has forwarded the funk. Detroit Rising: A Cosmic Jazz Funk Adventure, on sea-green vinyl, is the latest tentacle of the George Clinton P-Funk octopus of mammoth proportions. While the man himself continues to tour and excite new generations, his family of musicians — who have been the bulwark of […]
Books
Gold Dust Woman is a cradle-to-golden years slog through the singer’s life Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks By Stephen Davis St Martin’s Press By Suzanne Rush Being a Stevie Nicks fan has always required that one reconcile the conflict between thinking that her Sisters of the Moon act was somehow simultaneously empowering […]
New Releases
Many of these surviving studio recordings find Hendrix working with varying lineups of musicians — including surprises like Stephen Stills and Joni Mitchell By Richie Unterberger For a guy who only put out three true, studio albums during his lifetime, the Jimi Hendrix discography has become massive. Almost 50 years after his death, compilations of […]
Folk
Cherry Red release includes all six LPs and 45 bonus tracks By Richie Unterberger Along with Fairport Convention, Pentangle were the top British folk-rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. True, folk-rock was a label Pentangle were uncomfortable with, and there wasn’t nearly as much rock as folk in their sound. There was […]
Bebop
By Armand Lewis In the 1860s, New York Trib-une editor Horace Greeley saw the opening and settlement of the American West as an unprecedented opportunity and famously wrote in an editorial “Go West, young man.” One hundred years later, people were still heeding that call. And in early 1957, up- and- coming New York saxophonist […]
Books
The definitive oral history of one of the 20th century’s most important artists “If Bob Marley is Jesus in these times, Roger Steffens is Peter.” —Carlos Santana By Harvey Kubernik Ask reggae fans if they would buy a ticket to a panel discussion on Bob Marley by the key people in his life and career […]
Books
By Harvey Kubernik Insight Editions is pleased to announce the recent publication of Rock Gods: Fifty Years of Rock Photography. This new, updated and revised edition displays the rich visual universe of Robert M. Knight’s work, replete with visions of guitar gods, monumental performances, and speaker-shaking solos that chronicle the greatest moments in the evolution […]
Audio
Meet Audio Envy’s Captain Payne By David Thomson Move over Jim Carrey, there’s a new audio cable guy out there who will happily hook you up at a value so affordable that it would be sacrilegious to your music, never mind downright disrespectful to your components, if you didn’t check him out… and you can, […]
