“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…
The Beatles have released the latest in their series of ‘Super Deluxe Editions,’ in this case a box set honoring their 1965 classic Rubber Soul. I’ve always loved this album and I must admit it was the first Beatles’ album I ever purchased. I was a Stones guy, my brother was the Beatles guy and for…
The last week has been a busy one at B&V with a bunch of great new stuff coming out: an album from Beck (Ride Lonesome), a rocking single from U2 (“Silencio”) and an EP of outtakes from Stevie Wonder’s masterpiece Songs In The Key Of Life. All of that and I haven’t even mentioned Neil…
I saw that Stevie Wonder was celebrating the 50th anniversary (yesterday, September 28th) of his landmark 1976 double-album Songs In The Key Of Life. In order to commemorate that auspicious anniversary, he’s released Songs In The Key Of Life EP, with four outtakes from the original album sessions. The new tune were even prepped by the original…
Perennial B&V favorite Beck has returned with a new album, Ride Lonesome, his first album in seven years. I’m not sure when the rock ethos “let’s wait years between releases” kicked in, but I’m certainly not crazy about it. Give me all the Beck I can get. It may seem a little longer than seven years to…