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Iced Earth – Plagues of Babylon (2014)

These days, I approach a new Iced Earth record with both high hopes and a little trepidation. You May Also Like: Kait Dunton, with John D’earth – ‘Planet D’earth’ (2019) Wicked Realm, Aug. 26, 2016: Shows I’ll Never Forget

Sparks Fly On E Street: Bruce Springsteen, "Worlds Apart" (2002)

Sparks Fly On E Street: Bruce Springsteen, “Worlds Apart” (2002)

The musical palette employed during “Worlds Apart” — the tablas and the vocals delivered by Asif Ali Khan and Haji Nazir Afridi — was almost shocking. This is a Bruce Springsteen song?! You May Also Like: Reevaluating Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle’

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‘Musically, it’s a voyage’: Inside David Crosby’s long-awaited, surprising new album

Over a career which saw him co-found both the Byrds and Crosby Still and Nash, David Crosby has been known for a certain low-fi sound. Even his most critically acclaimed effort away from those groups shared this homey feel. You May Also Like: No related posts.

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Los Lonely Boys – Revelation (2014)

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

Forgotten series: The Sir Finks - (Tres Mexicanos) Del Sur De Texas (2008)

Forgotten series: The Sir Finks – (Tres Mexicanos) Del Sur De Texas (2008)

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

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‘We never had any time’: Jack Bruce says overscheduling, not internal squabbling, killed Cream

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

Steely Dan Sunday, "Door Number Two" (2008)

Steely Dan Sunday, “Door Number Two” (2008)

<<< BACKWARD (“Mary Shut The Garden Door”) ||| ONWARD (“Downtown Canon”) >>> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** It’s strange: I like Donald Fagen records for how much they sound like Steely Dan and I like Walter Becker’s records for how they distance themselves from Steely Dan records. You MayRead More

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Tom Levin – Them Feet (2014)

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.

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Brand X with Phil Collins – Missing Period; Live at the Roxy; Is There Anything About? (2013)

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: No related posts.

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Ex-Toto frontman Fergie Frederiksen loses cancer battle: ‘His legacy lives on’

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)