Posted Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:08pm PDT
Rod Tootell asks how well-served the Boss has been by his official concert recordings – and nominates his Top 20 live tracks (legal or otherwise).
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Posted Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:50pm PDT
In 1968, LA's Byrds – with key new member Gram Parsons – flew to Nashville to record what most would deem to be the first true country-rock album. Exactly 40 years since the US release of Sweetheart Of The Rodeo , we celebrate a landmark recordin
Posted Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:55pm PDT
Primal Scream release their ninth studio album Beautiful Future later this month. Their extraordinary self-reinvention as rave 'n' roll techno-gospel hybridizers began 17 years ago with "Loaded" and "Come Together," and The Observer's
Posted Tue Jul 8, 2008 2:44pm PDT
If a new Randy Newman album is always a cause for celebration, the release of his splendid new Harps and Angels is also a perfect excuse to look back on the halcyon days of 12 Songs and Sail Away.
Posted Mon Jul 7, 2008 1:29pm PDT
The return of Beck with the new Modern Guilt sends us back to the skinny wunderkind's arrival on the LA scene 14 years ago, when Gerrie Lim quizzed the "slacker Dylan" as "Loser" burst on to a post-grunge world in early '94. We excerpt
Posted Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:14am PDT
Thirty-five years ago, David Bowie decided to kill off Ziggy Stardust, his alter ego and his greatest glam-rock creation. This excerpt from Barney Hoskyns' 1998 book Glam! explains why.
Posted Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:59pm PDT
As the world waits – apparently in vain – for the grand Axl Rose folly that is Chinese Democracy , we time-travel back to the early daze of Guns n'Roses in this excerpt from Sylvie Simmons' classic 1987 encounter with the band.
Posted Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:29pm PDT
With I, Flathead Ry Cooder completes the trilogy of records about 1950s/60s California that began with Chavez Ravine and continued with My Name Is Buddy. Complete with his own superb 53-page novella, the album explores a lost world of pedal steel gui
Posted Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:33pm PDT
The doomed bard of upper-class Britfolk, Nick Drake would have been 60 on June 19. His tragic death in 1974 has only made his scant recorded output the more hauntingly precious.
Posted Mon Jun 9, 2008 1:54pm PDT
The acclaimed and eclectic new album by Paul Weller affords us the chance to revisit the Jam's back pages in this amusingly Americophobic Creem interview from March 1981.
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