Los Lonely Boys have never sounded more cosmopolitan, never more engaged in the wider musical landscape around them, and yet Revelation isn’t all about previously untried sounds. The brothers keep their feet firmly planted on a now familiar soul-soaked blues-rock firmament. You May Also Like: Los Lobos – ‘Native Sons’Read More

This was a fun surf instrumental album from Get Hip, containing all of the Sir Finks’ material as recorded for the Wildebeest label. You May Also Like: Australian Crawl – ‘Sirocco’ (1981): Forgotten Series The Undertones – True Confessions: Singles = A’s + B’s (1999): Forgotten Series

For all of their many arguments, accusations and on-stage antics, Cream really broke up because of bad management, bassist Jack Bruce says. Having issued three albums in four years, and toured incessantly through 1968, they simply burned out. You May Also Like: Jack Bruce and Robin Trower found new successRead More

Billy Branch, a fire-kissed harp-playing protegé of blues great Willie Dixon, took some 15 years between studio recordings — and not because of some lack of creative impetus. Instead, Branch was waiting for a new sound to come together. You May Also Like: Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die (2017)

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Tom Levin took a huge step back into the spotlight, after struggling for years through a bad record deal, with 2011’s Tooth and Claw. This new album consolidates everything that once made him a best-new-artist phenom You May Also Like: No related posts.

Phil Collins has taken his knocks (ahem!) for yanking Genesis up by its prog-rock roots and replanting it on the Billboard pop charts. Still, anyone who questions Collins as a drummer need only explore his tandem, tantalizingly brief late-1970s career in Brand X. You May Also Like: Phil Collins foundRead More

Fergie Frederiksen, who fronted Toto for 1984’s Isolation and rebounded despite a cancer diagnosis to release two recent albums, has died You May Also Like: Bobby Kimball, former Toto frontman: Something Else! Interview Bobby Kimball – We’re Not in Kansas Anymore (2017) Steve Lukather kept Toto’s legacy alive with All’sRead More

It doesn’t matter how many records I listen to in a year, I always seem to miss a few good ones. Live Fast, Die Loud is one of those that I didn’t get to in 2013. You May Also Like: Alice Cooper, Oct. 28, 2016: Shows I’ll Never Forget AliceRead More

Claiming absolutely no kinship to the Outsiders from Cleveland, Ohio, who raced to the top of the charts in 1966 with the horn-rocking “Time Won’t Let Me,” these boys called Brooklyn, New York home You May Also Like: Rockin’ Horse, “The Biggest Gossip in Town” (1971): One Track Mind JohnRead More