Sabbath’s return is hardly subtle – but the Brummie heavy metal pioneers remain diabolical in all the right ways
Hi. I doubt anyone missed the new Black Sabbath album, but I still think it’s a solid effort worthy of a blog post. Genre: hard rock/heavy metal. Enjoy! (US version here.) (Thanks...
From: John Gentile To: Bryne Yancey, Tori Pederson Date: Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:33 AM Subject: Black Sabbath Guys, everyone keeps talking about a new Black Sabbath album. I've...
Metal gods, possibly estranged for longer than you've been alive, refuse to evolve (or embarrass) themselves
Produced by Rick Rubin (seven-time Grammy winner, two of those as Producer of the Year), 13 will be released on Vertigo/Republic in the U.S. Currently on tour, Black Sabbath...
Numbered limited edition hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity. Infectious doo wop, carefree soul, harmonious pop – a testament to the music of Billy Joel's childhood. The seven-times...
Numbered limited edition hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity. The landmark double album was recorded in Nashville with Al Kooper, Robbie Robertson, and a cadre of top session cats...
I was 15 when I first saw Deep Purple. This was 1971, at Belle Vue King's Hall, Manchester. It was my first experience of a live concert and proved suitably thrilling. Three rows...
The man who forever changed the sound of rock n' roll when he invented distortion presents this brand new solo album of all original material! Featuring guest appearances by The...
The definitive, remastered 35th anniversary edition of Kaya ! Features the classics, "Is This Love", "Sun Is Shining", "Time Will Tell" and "Satisfy My Soul". Includes the non-LP...
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home on numbered limited edition hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity. Dylan's 1965 Landmark blows up boundaries, styles, practicalities: rock music...
Before there was Ziggy, Aladdin, Halloween Jack, the Man Who Fell to Earth, the Thin White Duke, Major Tom, the Goblin King, The Dame, the Mid-Life Crisis Soul Patch, and all the...
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) is a great David Bowie record, and a weary reminder of how frustrating his output has been since its 1980 release. Plenty of established acts...
For a man who based an entire chunk of his career on playing parts – whether it was Ziggy Stardust or the Thin White Duke, the mod or the starry-eyed folk singer – David Bowie is...
For a man who based an entire chunk of his career on playing parts – whether it was Ziggy Stardust or the Thin White Duke, the mod or the starry-eyed folk singer – David Bowie is...
Hey. So, I was thinking: since the new David Bowie album is arguably the most notable new album release of the week, perhaps I should write a post about it even though most people...
Unlike My Bloody Valentine's similar release of m b v, rumors hadn't even existed of a new David Bowie record before The Next Day's announcement on the artist's 66th birthday...
"The cliché about David Bowie says he's a musical chameleon, adapting himself according to fashion and trends. While such a criticism is too glib, there's no denying that Bowie...
William Royce Boz Scaggs began a long and storied career in 1965 with the release of his first solo recording Boz . Scaggs quickly developed into an iconic singer-songwriter...
The album that never was, by the man who reinvented the guitar. But is this the best of posthumous Hendrix?
In a totally brilliant move, David Bowie has cast Oscar winner Tilda Swinton as his wife in a new video/short film for the single “The Stars (Are Out Tonight).” In the video, Mr...
The six-stringed father of pristine, intricate, vibrant Britpop goes solo at last
Speak of the messenger and lo, he doth appear – it's just taken him a bloody long time to turn up carrying a bag bulging with missives penned solely by his own hand. But when you...
The Godlike Genius and guitar-slinger for hire finally goes it alone, rifling through pop history to reveal himself as a natural born frontman and a writer to rival his old mate...
"Following on the heels of an album where he repudiated his past with his greatest backing band, Blood on the Tracks finds Bob Dylan, in a way, retreating to the past, recording a...
Fleetwood Mac's Rumours would never be just an album. Upon its release in 1977, it became the fastest-selling LP of all time, moving 800,000 copies per week at its height, and its...
Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album Rumours has sold over 40 million albums to date. To this day, Rumours is inextricable from the story of its creation, a process that took over the band...
After ten long years of silence (and listening to Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust on repeat), a brand new David Bowie single sounds almost too good to be true. Alas, it is true, as...
The latest in an endless succession of I-could-not-give-a-shit-any-more covers albums
Johnny Cash left Sun Records in 1958 after seven albums and many successful singles when Columbia Records offered him something that Sun did not: the ability to release a gospel...
Containing material that the prolific Frank Zappa recorded between 1973 and 1977, the one-time "controversial" collection known as Lather has a unique story attached to it...
I should declare an infatuation – this album is exactly as old as me and for 25 of its 40 years I have loved it unreservedly. This can't be a review of the album because if you...
This four-disc collection is the ultimate memorial service to the brothers Gibb.
Debut release by the Brooklyn based pack who combine lush classic rock flavor with modern progressive heaviness. Second guitarist Joshua Lozano also plays with avant-black...
In the cold cynical world of Hollywood, music will often save the day. For film directors of every sprocket, their hero is cool customer Elvis Costello. In Motion Pictures...
Forty-five years after its release, everything that was supposed to have made The Velvet Underground & Nico special has been nearly eradicated by its own legend. The most...
Not as terrible as you feared. Too bloated to be as great as you'd dared to hope.
The signature Crazy Horse move is The Huddle. No matter how big the stage, Neil Young, Billy Talbot, and Frank "Poncho" Sampedro will inevitably find themselves tightly packed in...
The name of Neil Young and Crazy Horse's current tour - Alchemy - provides an apt description of the contents of this much overdue reunion, which turns base materials - a few...
"You've been such a great crowd standing out here in the pouring rain so we're gonna play some more for you!" The scene is a sodden and muddy Finsbury Park, August 2001 and Neil...
Crabby, indulgent, monolithic, noisy, and joyously terrifying, as only Neil can do it
Donal Fagen's fourth solo album for Warner Reprise, Sunken Condos, will be released on October 16. His first three solo albums, The Nightfly, Kamakiriad and Morph the Cat...