Archive for 2012

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Streams: Jeff Beck joins the Rolling Stones as 50th anniversary concerts begin

Jeff Beck joined the Rolling Stones for a scalding take on “I’m Going Down,” a rare Who cut from the album Two’s Missing, last night at London’s 02 Arena. Stream the song here! You May Also Like: What ‘Back to Basics’ Said About Bill Wyman’s Post-Stones Career Rolling Stones –Read More

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The Stylistics – The Best Of The Stylistics (1999)

Founded in 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Stylistics were one of the key players in the Philly Soul movement of the early 1970s. From 1971 to 1974, the group amassed 10 Top 40 hit singles that are as refreshing and relevant today as they were back then. You May AlsoRead More

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One Track Mind: Jeff Babko, “The International Client” (2012)

Given his astonishingly varied and accomplished music career, the kickoff track from Jeff Babko’s fresh new release Crux can be just about anything, and it’d likely be good. You May Also Like: Jeff Babko: The Albums That Shaped My Career Jeff Lorber Fusion – ‘The Drop’ (2023)

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Sparks Fly On E Street: Bruce Springsteen, “Bobby Jean” (1984)

I honestly can’t remember if I was aware that Steve Van Zandt had left the E Street Band. Certainly my constant consumption of the usual rock rags must have exposed me to the Little Steven/Nils switch. You May Also Like: Reevaluating Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Wild, the Innocent and the ERead More

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Steely Dan Sunday, Confessions of a Side Man: Recording on Donald Fagen’s Sunken Condos, Part 3

Below is the final installment in a three part series spanning Will Galison’s first hand account of some session work on an album by one of the most notorious studio perfectionists in rock history, Donald Fagen. You May Also Like: Donald Fagen, “New Frontier” from ‘The Nightfly Live’ (2021): SteelyRead More

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Deftones – Koi No Yokan (2012)

The seventh full length from Sacramento’s Deftones exemplifies the energetic blend of the atmospheric and the heavy over the course of 11 tracks. It features extensive riffing, haphazard tempo shifts and Chino Moreno’s emotionally full vocals You May Also Like: Gregg Belisle-Chi – ‘Koi: Performing the Music of Tim Berne’Read More

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Nektar – A Spoonful of Time (2012)

Roye Albrighton gets an assist from Billy Sherwood on Nektar’s first original album since 2008’s ‘Book of Days.’

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Philipp Gropper’s Philm – Licht (2012)

Many are the jazz adventurers who have run aground on the rocky shoals of the Thelonious Monk sound. They either come off as gimmicky impersonators, the portrait of studied eccentricity, or as well-meaning but genuinely confused – unsure of what to do with all of that dissonance. You May AlsoRead More

Patti Smith - Live at Montreux (2012)

Patti Smith – Live at Montreux (2012)

‘Live at Montreux’ was recorded as Patti Smith celebrated the 30th anniversary of ‘Horses,’ and features long-time collaborator Tom Verlaine.

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Forgotten series: Mahogany Rush – Strange Universe (1975)

Guitarist Frank Marino flaunted his Jimi Hendrix fetish to extreme effects, going as far as saying the spirit of the great axeman entered his body shortly after his death in 1970, resulting in a transfer of talent and ideas. You May Also Like: Noel Redding’s Fat Mattress – Fat MattressRead More