Rather than trying to sound exactly like the inspiration, ‘Fanfare For the Uncommon Man: The Official Keith Emerson Tribute Concert’ takes a personal tack.

We’ve long known that guitar ace Wayne Krantz is really good, and now with ‘Music Room 1985’ we know that he was really good at the get-go.

A self-composed piece of straight-up hard rock, Richard Turgeon’s “Parasite” is recited in a stadium-sized leer that firmly pushes the point home.

Chicago reimagines a classic with a completely different tone and color, rather than merely rehashing a dime-a-dozen cover from the swing era.

Dan Wilson, Maximo Park, Benjamin Lazar Davis are part of the latest edition of Five for the Road, an occasional look at music that’s been in my car lately.

Metroluxe’s “Get Some” is the kind of thing that creates hope and a certainty that music will come back – live, kicking, and so so good.

The Sails are quite the rage across the pond, and ‘Bang!: The Sails Best of 2006 to 2020’ provides the reason why.

Toto pulled out all the stops to wrap up 2015’s ‘Toto XIV,’ concluding with the epic prog-rock masterpiece “Great Expectations.”

‘A Wizard, a True Star … Live!’ begs two questions: Does anybody besides Todd Rundgren completists need it, and will it satisfy that audience?

Here is the video premiere of “Blues Masqué” by the talented Canadian pianist François Bourassa.