Articles by: Nick DeRiso

Record Store Day/Black Friday 2012 picks: Bob Dylan, Joe Strummer, Miles Davis, My Morning Jacket

Record Store Day/Black Friday 2012 picks: Bob Dylan, Joe Strummer, Miles Davis, My Morning Jacket

Where else will you find, side by side by side, new reissues of Miles Davis’ Porgy and Bess, Nirvana’s 1992 compilation Incesticide, and the Fat Boys’ Pizza Box album — packaged in (yes) a pizza box? You May Also Like: Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Joe Strummer: The Singers andRead More

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Movies: Color Me Obsessed: A Film About the Replacements (2012)

It wasn’t quite as nihilistically put out as punk, so it had little credibility there. It wasn’t sweetly composed enough to connect with pop fans, either. You May Also Like: ‘Weekly Standard’ Fails in Pitting Yes Against the Replacements

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Beth Duncan – Come the Fall (2012)

Amazon.com Widgets Beth Duncan’s Come the Fall isn’t the purpled and foreboding project that its title might suggest. If anything, it’s exactly the opposite You May Also Like: The Most Surprising Moment on Alan Parsons Project’s ‘Eve’

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Porcupine Tree – Octane Twisted (2012)

Porcupine Tree’s album-length 2009 song cycle The Incident is given a full concert reading here, and what Octane Twisted lacks in studio dynamics, it more than makes up for with visceral power. You May Also Like: No related posts.

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Eric Burdon and the Greenhornes – Eric Burdon and the Greenhornes (2012)

In a gritty reimagining of the old Animals sound, Eric Burdon has joined up with Cincinnati garage rockers the Greenhornes — featuring the rhythm section from the Raconteurs — for a raggedy-ass street-fighting EP. You May Also Like: Eric Burdon and the Animals’ Self-Titled Debut Was a Dark, Dirty Triumph

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Asia – Resonance: The Omega Tour (2012)

Getting the music right, after all of these years, is in many ways the easy part. What changes, inevitably, for bands of Asia’s vintage are the vocals. You May Also Like: No related posts.

The Move - The Lost Broadcasts (2012)

The Move – The Lost Broadcasts (2012)

Part beat group, part blues band, part ornate pop group, part psychedelic rockers, the Move may have been too interesting for their own good.

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Don Felder on the Eagles’ “Hotel California,” “Heavy Metal,” other solo songs: Gimme Five

Only two members of the Eagles had longer tenures than Don Felder, and that gives him unique insight into the band’s inner workings.

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Don Felder, former Eagles guitarist: Something Else! Interview

If Eagles fans felt a certain familiarity about the soaring guitar heard last Sunday on Showtime’s “Homeland” series, here’s why: The November 11, 2012 episode featured the lead single from former guitarist Don Felder’s new solo project You May Also Like: No related posts.

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Peter Frampton – FCA! 35 Tour (2012)

There have been, in the intervening years between Frampton Comes Alive! and this anniversary set, two other FCA!-related live albums from Peter Frampton. Each, really, only underscored the idea that if you were one of the 17 million who bought the 1976 release, then you had all the live FramptonRead More