Nita Strauss, Extreme, Overkill, Winger and Ad Infinitum are among the others who appear on Fred Phillips’ Best of 2023 hard rock and metal albums list.

Philip Norman’s ‘George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle’ is a fine book, even if it’s not the best Beatles biography ever written.

In the end, the Sunny Five’s ‘Candid’ is a jam record but in this case, the jams expose just how scary talented this assemblage truly is.

Here’s an exclusive sneak peek at five key comments from Martha Quinn found in Nick DeRiso’s new Amazon best-selling biography ‘Journey: Worlds Apart.’

Preston Frazier’s Best of 2023 Jazz list includes Jose James, Jamie Leonhart, Ron Blake, Lucas Pino, Nick Finzer and others.

‘Live’ proves that adding Ed Kuepper to a very good acoustic jazz piano trio transforms Asteroid Ekosystem into an experimental, improvisation-heavy rock outfit.

Unlikely display 10 years ago showcased a photographer who described Bob Dylan as the embodiment of a generation’s “contemporary, pent-up feelings.”

This album will always be defined by its lead-off moment, as the Temptations take a kid’s song and transform it into a funked-out Yuletide hoot.

The dynamic one-man band Joe Bailey returns with nine songs offering a variety of hard-charging, powerfully constructed prog-metal.

Jethro Tull took the stage 55 years ago this month with a guitarist wearing a floppy, decidedly un-metal white hat. Turns out, that was Tony Iommi.