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Afrocelt Sound System with Peter Gabriel : When You’re Falling [ purchase ] The easy way to address our new theme would be with song...

Purchase The Great 28   A lot of people claim to have invented rock 'n roll. But, that's a prodigious bit of boasting, to sa...

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I hate singers who spend most of their songs whisper-singing. They either have a crap voice, haven’t figured out who they are or have ...

In 1991, when Axel Rose was asked about some of his favorite new bands, he said “The singer of Soundgarden has a beautiful voice.” I ...

No, this isn’t an article about Jerry Garcia (who died in 1995) or Bob Weir (still very much alive). As always, we find ourselves l...

It takes a lot for me to latch onto a drummer, my favourites to be counted on one hand, with Dave Mattacks, Charlie Watts and this guy b...

Steely Dan : Don’t Take Me Alive [ purchase ] By most reckonings, Walter Becker was one half of Steely Dan. The other half was Donal...

  We interrupt the In Memoriam theme for our third annual listing of the most viewed posts of the prior year. Through our (usually) two...

I actually chanced upon the music of the grizzled and younger member of the eponymous brothers band via his solo work, which may be the e...

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Purchase Chris Cornell's "Seasons" It's hard to believe that with all that happened in 2017, Chris Cornell hasn't...

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Well, he came, he emptied his sack and he's gone again. Shh, don't say his name but, if I am not mistaken, perhaps a first for SM...

Donovan Leitch has the reputation for famously inventing everything in popular music, every genre, every tuning, every style. OK, I je...

Simon & Garfunkel : A Hazy Shade of Winter [ purchase ] I know we can write about any season, but it would seem strange to be writ...

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Purchase The Strokes, The End Has No End The Strokes. In 2001, their debut, This Is It , was perhaps one of the greatest rock albums o...