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: For Tony Levin, jazz-focused Levin Brothers presented ‘a fun challenge’Read More

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: Micky Dolenz says the Hollywood Vampires started out as somethingRead 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 Circus,Read More

Hall and Oates, not long after their acceptance into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, got back to work — though, as has been increasingly the case lately, not together. Turns out, that strengthens their bond. You May Also Like: John Oates on the thing he hates most aboutRead More

Damon Fowler’s career was hardly in need of enlivening. This is a guy who, over the past few years, has not only been unleashing his own rootsy blues-rock outings but has also co-founded the good-time dixie-groove Southern Hospitality band. You May Also Like: Eri Yamamoto, Chad Fowler, William Parker +Read More

Though it’s long been forgotten now, there was a CD-ROM component planned for Chicago’s shelved Stone of Sisyphus recording in the early 1990s — and it’s now surfaced online. Stream it here! You May Also Like: Chicago, “Get On This” (unreleased, 1994): Saturdays in the Park With Led Zeppelin’s reissuesRead More

Making the labored sound simple must be one of the tallest orders for any jazz musician, but that seems to come naturally to Philadelphia-based saxophonist Ian O’Beirne. You May Also Like: Inside Deep Purple’s unique collaborative relationship with Ian Gillan: ‘We have a weird dynamic, but it works’ Ian GillanRead More