Robert Plant is back with a new song, a cover of the band Low’s track “Everybody’s Song,” and the promise of a new album, entitled Saving Grace, due September 26th! It has been a while since we’ve heard from Mr. Plant and I can’t tell you how delighted I am. His last LP was the…
*Photo above from the internet, likely copyrighted I’ve been a little bit behind in terms of posting of late. An old friend and his wife came to visit this past weekend and needless to say, I’m feeling a little ragged in the aftermath. It’s been a slow month for interesting releases so I thought I’d…
The Pretenders just released a new live album (a double live album on vinyl!) entitled Kick Em Where It Hurts. The album artwork, with pink lettering running down the left side and green letters along the bottom, recalls Elvis Presley’s debut album later also mimicked by the Clash on London Calling. That all seems pretty…
Neil Young has recently released a brand new studio album, Talkin’ To The Trees. On this outing, he’s subbed out Crazy Horse and has brought in a “new-ish” band, the Chrome Hearts. The Chrome Hearts are basically Promise of the Real (who have been Neil’s on and off backup band for a while): Micah Nelson…
I don’t know what rock I was living under lately – I have been listening to late period Doors and a lot of single-LP live albums of late and was rather immersed in that, I guess – but I was completely unaware that in late April there was a wonderful Neil Young tribute album released…
*Crappy picture of live LPs from Townshend, Hendrix, Elton, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Faces/Rod, and the Blues Brothers by your intrepid blogger who moonlights as a very bad photographer While my listening of late has been very 1985-centric what with both Dire Straits (Brothers In Arms) and INXS (Listen Like Thieves) releasing deluxe editions of…
Just last Friday, INXS released Listen Like Thieves (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition). We’ve done a couple of lookbacks to 1985, foremost of which was our Playlist: Rock Songs From 1985. It was a very synth heavy/drum machine kind of year. I chose to also look back to Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms (perhaps the album…
Sting, who has had perhaps one of the most challenging, albeit successful, solo careers continues to surprise me good ways. Just last weekend he released a single-LP, live album entitled Sting 3.0 Live, taken from his latest tour (of the same name) and recorded in Los Angeles. The album was originally released as a Record…
I don’t know how many times I’ve sat here, seeing the list of rock artists being inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio and just bitching and moaning about how the Hall got it wrong. I have to say, in this year of our Lord 2025, the Hall just nailed it. I…
Billy Idol has released his first new album in 11 years, Dream Into It. Billy joins a few other illustrious rock acts who have waited a decade (or perhaps decades) between albums, like the Stones, the Cure, and Peter Gabriel who all released albums last year (or late ’23 in the case of Gabriel). Although…