“There’s no easy way to be free…” – The Who, “Slip Kid” Rock and roll legends The Who have released a 5-CD (plus 1 Blu-ray) box set of their 1975 album The Who By Numbers. Unlike the Beatles recent box set for Rubber Soul, this box is full of extras and goodies with demos, rehearsals and live stuff from…
“I’m so broken…” – QOTSA, “Insignificant Other” Queens Of The Stone Age have returned with a new album, the follow up to 2023’s In New Times Roman, entitled Perfecth. It had been six years prior to In New Times Roman that they released Villains (2017) so three years is pretty quick for these guys. I’ll take all the new Queens I…
Man, are we living in crazy times! Stuff that I never thought I’d see keeps happening, daily… “cats living with dogs, mass hysteria.” And as usual it led me to think about one of the favorite themes/tropes from rock n roll: being crazy, baby! There are so many songs out there about craziness/madness/insanity, it dawned…
The fabulous new Oasis “rockumentary” ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger,’ which was released September 11th of this year has at last started playing on the streaming services and I finally got to see it! I have to tell you, I was very impressed with this documentary. I think it’s entertaining viewing for hard core fans,…
“Why can’t you show some feeling? Why can’t you understand? Messed up my whole life, why wreck my day?” – Robert Cray, “Still Around” In March of every year we build a playlist of songs from albums released 40 years ago. This year’s “40 year look back” was made up of songs from 1986, obviously….
The Rolling Stones have announced they are releasing a “deluxe” edition of their latest album Foreign Tongues that will feature five new songs: “Where There’s A Will There’s A Way” (a favorite saying of mine my whole life), “Who You Calling Crazy,” “Human Tide,” “Bad Luck Hideaway,” and “She Still Comes Around.” This new configuration of the…
Paul Simon has released a 2-disc live album, The Quiet Celebration Concert, a soundtrack (if you will) of a concert video released in combination. I love music BluRays but I so rarely put them on I’m just focused on the live album, because as you know, I love live albums. I also love me some Paul Simon,…
The Brothers Kiszka – Josh (vocals), Jake (guitar), Sam (bass) – and drummer Danny Wagner, also known as Greta Van Fleet have returned with their fourth album Palace For The People. I’ve been on these guys bandwagon since the Rock Chick wandered into the B&V labs in 2017 and said the famous words, “I don’t know who…
Robert Plant and his latest backing band, Saving Grace featuring Suzi Dian, have released an EP All That Glitters… containing four new songs. Actually if I’m being honest, the EP was previously released on vinyl-only for April’s Record Store Day. I tried to grab this one on that ill-fated day, but was too late. This…
Elvis Costello (born Declan MacManus) has released My Aim Is True – 49th Anniversary Edition to celebrate his 1977 debut album. I guess the idea of a 50th anniversary disturbed him enough he thought he’d jump the gun a year. My Aim Is True is not only a spectacular debut album (and admittedly I love debut albums), but just…