Album Reviews
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A classic blues-rock album sees a 40th anniversary reissue, both in an expanded album version and a super-deluxe multi-disc box set. New fans, start here. Read more
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Longtime Suzi Quatro fan Lisa Carver spends a weekend immersed in the Quatro’s newly-released career retrospective. Read more
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The impossible-to-categorize Robert Wyatt compiles two discs of highlights from a storied career. It’s not definitive, but it is essential listening. Read more
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Arthur is a long-lost psych-folk gem, a wispy, spooky album that sounds absolutely otherworldly. Read more
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A beautiful, informative double-disc deluxe edition of the stunning soundtrack to one of the most controversial films of all time. Read more
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The breakthrough hit of The Ides of March was the humble yet exciting beginning of the career of a musician who would later dominate the charts. Read more
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Uber-rare British jazz combo The Mike Cotton Sound’s sole album sees release, a superb time capsule of a rarely-heard yet brilliant, exciting combo. Read more
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Legendary 4AD band Dif Juz’s bass player’s next project was a short-lived band, and their sole recordings are now seeing the light of day. Read more
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The Bangles’ pre-major label era finally gets the compilation it rightly deserves. Read more
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Music expert Bob Stanley’s specialty label Croydon Municipal has released three distinctive,. essential, and downright enjoyable collections documenting women singers of the 1950s and 1960s. Read more
