Porcupine Tree’s album-length 2009 song cycle The Incident is given a full concert reading here, and what Octane Twisted lacks in studio dynamics, it more than makes up for with visceral power. You May Also Like: Blackfield – Blackfield V (2017) Why Dennis Wilson’s Rough-Hewn Debut ‘Pacific Ocean Blue’ WasRead More

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Getting the music right, after all of these years, is in many ways the easy part. What changes, inevitably, for bands of Asia’s vintage are the vocals. You May Also Like: Carl Palmer, of Asia and Emerson Lake & Palmer: Something Else! Interview John Wetton, Jonny Greenwood, Downes Braide AssociationRead More

Part beat group, part blues band, part ornate pop group, part psychedelic rockers, the Move may have been too interesting for their own good.

Only two members of the Eagles had longer tenures than Don Felder, and that gives him unique insight into the band’s inner workings.

If Eagles fans felt a certain familiarity about the soaring guitar heard last Sunday on Showtime’s “Homeland” series, here’s why: The November 11, 2012 episode featured the lead single from former guitarist Don Felder’s new solo project You May Also Like: Bernie Chiaravalle, Guitarist With Michael McDonald: Something Else! InterviewRead More

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Lindsey Buckingham, on a brilliant new live acoustic album, redefines what’s at stake in his own songs — helping us not just to hear them in a new way, but to feel them in the same new way. You May Also Like: How Lindsey Buckingham Balanced It All on theRead More

Brian Eno returns to the long-form sense of suspended animation that made 1975’s ‘Discreet Music’ forefather to an ambient movement nobody knew was coming.

In an often numbingly disengaged world bereft of protest songs — from the left, right or center — Don Quixote is welcome, indeed. As Mayday Radio, singer-songwriter Jeff Ting pushes buttons, and boundaries, that have grown dusty from inattention. You May Also Like: Barista – ‘Open Sesame Vol. 2: PressRead More