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by / on January 20, 2013 at 9:58 am / in Rock Music, Uncategorized

The Pogues – Very Best of (2013)

All you need to know, really, about Irish punk rockers Pogues is right in their name, taken from a Gaelic phrase meaning “kiss my arse.” Confounding expectation, they played softly as often as they played loudly

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by / on December 8, 2012 at 8:56 am / in Concerts, Progressive rock, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Emerson Lake and Palmer – Live in California (2012)

There’s a reason this April 6, 1974 concert, held during the sprawling California Jam at the Ontario Motor Speedway, has for so long been a favorite among bootleggers.

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by / on August 18, 2012 at 7:18 am / in Reissue, Rock Music, Roots Music, Uncategorized

Los Lobos – Kiko (1992; 2012 reissue)

It is still, by any measure, their most unusual, yet satisfying album — that moment when the power and mystery of Los Lobos music found its fullest flowering in the off-the-wall pop atmospheres created by Mitchell Froom.

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by / on June 1, 2012 at 7:58 am / in Metal, Movies, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Alice Cooper – The Strange Case of Alice Cooper (1979; 2012 reissue)

Though certainly not the wildest of Alice Cooper’s live shows, the performance captured on The Strange Case of Alice Cooper is definitely one of his most interesting.

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by / on April 17, 2012 at 7:40 am / in Rock Music, Uncategorized

The Grateful Dead – All The Years Combine: The DVD Collection (2012)

There was something about a New Year’s Eve show and the Grateful Dead, as the forthcoming All The Years Combine: The DVD Collection so artfully illustrates.

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by / on April 9, 2012 at 7:01 am / in Progressive rock, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Todd Rundgren's Utopia – Live at Hammersmith Odeon '75 (2012)

Todd Rundgren’s once out-of-this-world vision for Utopia — prog-pop? proto-new wave rock? Whodathunkit? — was coalescing into a provocative and powerful musical conception by this point.

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by / on March 20, 2012 at 8:18 am / in Metal, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Quiet Riot – Live at the U.S. Festival 1983 (2012)

As an 11-year-old kid in 1983, I would have given just about anything to see this show. I’ve already shared that Quiet Riot’s 1983 album Metal Health was the beginning of my journey into heavy metal

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by / on February 28, 2012 at 7:14 am / in Country

Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson – Live at the US Festival 1983 (2012)

Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson took the stage of the 1983 US Festival as confirmed crossover country stars — but without all of the sell-out slickness that’s attached to the term these days.

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