Top guitar session player Larry Carlton covers “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” with heaping helpings of both skill and sentiment.

Fred Phillips’ Best of 2014 list for hard rock and metal albums includes Judas Priest, Down, Alestorm, Grand Magus, Anti-Mortem and others.

Queen recently issued a two-disc compilation of ballads, bolstered by a trio of never-before-released songs. Co-founder Roger Taylor isn’t a fan.

Red Garland playing “On Green Dolphin Street” with Philly Joe Jones and Leroy Vinnegar? Say no more.

The Waterboys have gone through a variety of permutations — both in lineup and in sound — but seem to emerge more interesting each time.

D’Angelo, Paul Rodgers, Roger Daltrey and Branford Marsalis are included on Nick DeRiso’s Best of 2014 list for blues, R&B and jazz records.

If Butcher Brown can make “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” so delectably fonky, they can groove up just about any old tune.

Here are Steely Dan’s five best keyboard performances, selected in tandem by our panel of Steely Dan authorities.

Returning to an expanded live take on ‘Pawnbroker,” it’s as if Tinsley Ellis is coming into his own, right there on stage.

David Lee Roth was reluctant to pick his top Van Halen album — until he came up with a suitably salacious scenario in which he’d have to.