After an eight-year lay-off from the recording studio, the Smithereens released two albums in 2007. However, it doesn’t bode well for their creative process that the first of those albums was comprised entirely of Beatles covers, and the second was a Christmas disc.
However, Christmas with the Smithereens at least features three original tunes (which is three more than Meet the Smithereens!), and as rock & roll Christmas albums go, this is good fun and admirably eclectic. The Smithereens are pretty broad-minded when it comes to what constitutes a Yuletide melody, given the presence of “Christmas,” a not especially seasonal tune from the Who’s Tommy, and they dig up the Beatles rarity “Christmas Time Is Here Again,” as well as…
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‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’ (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) features 12 new recordings by Jeremy Allen White and the cast of the critically acclaimed film.
Active as a professional DJ in Japan since the late eighties, DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite is also a renowned remixer, compiler and producer. An avid record collector and an expert of Wamono music, Yoshizawa has published in 2015 the now-classic Wamono A to Z records guide book, which instantly sold-out. The book unveiled a myriad of beautiful and rare records from a highly prolific, but still then unknown, Japanese groove scene. He has also selected a large part of the music in our highly acclaimed Wamono compilations.
Aerosmith and YUNGBLUD’s One More Time EP arrives like a classic dare. Old school rock legends teaming up with Gen Z’s most theatrical provocateur basically proves that rock ’n’ roll still means something, especially when you splice decades and attitudes together. With this five-song EP, they’ve managed something messy, earnest and occasionally thrilling.
Singer-songwriter Tommy Womack is at heart a rock ‘n roller. Accordingly, it makes sense that he teams with Eric ‘Roscoe’ Ambel for his latest release, his ninth, Live a Little. Ambel collaborations have worked for Steve Earle, Jerry Joseph, Sarah Borges, Freedy Johnston, and more. Combine Ambel’s rocking edge with Womack’s tunes, which run from the hilarious to the ironic to the provocative, for a winning formula. Ambel took Womack’s solo acoustic demos and rendered them with his core band, including bassist Jeremy Chatzky and drummer Kenny Soule. Womack plays acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, and mandolin, while Ambel fires up his electric guitar, pounds the keyboards, and provides backing vocals. Lisa Oliver-Gray,…
With their cross-pollination of literate, soulful rock & roll and folk traditions of the British Isles, the Waterboys have tread a multitude of musical paths since singer/songwriter Mike Scott formed the group in London in the early ’80s. From the grandiose “Big Music” of their early classic, This Is the Sea through the rich Celtic-inspired folk-rock of their 1988 highlight, Fisherman’s Blues, the mercurial Scotsman has made dramatic sea changes a regular occurrence, swapping lineups and chasing stylistic whims on an almost album-to-album basis. Across nearly four decades of work, Scott’s sonic and spiritual explorations have been shared by literally dozens of bandmembers, though only fiddler Steve Wickham (and to some extent early mainstay Antony Thistlethwaite) has maintained…
The ship of Theseus is a classic paradox of thought that asks whether an object is truly the same after all its component pieces have been replaced. That’s not exactly the case for Sting’s musical The Last Ship, but he is once again revisiting the song score he’s tinkered with several times over the last decade in a new expanded edition.
Available on vinyl, digital and compact disc formats for successive late 2025 Record Store Days, Warren Zevon’s final live performance, recorded Live at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, joins 1980’s Stand in the Fire (issued in expanded form twice) and 1993’s Learning to Flinch, as sterling examples of how the late singer/songwriter so artfully transposed the unique traits of his original material to the concert stage.
…20-track overview of funk-rock combo War’s earliest recordings with British rocker Eric Burdon of The Animals. It includes three unreleased tracks, including an unedited remix of this iteration’s biggest hit, “Spill the Wine.”
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It takes all of two seconds of Space Junk to realize what 
The Paris show from June 1976 had never been officially released in full before, so having a polished, band-sanctioned video of it, from the heyday of the band’s European 1976 tour, is a major archival win.
“You can’t tell a book by looking at its cover,” as Bo Diddley so memorably reminded us. And that cliché applies to the art adorning Americana/blues rocker 
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As we’ve come to expect from Ace’s much-admired series of Jon Savage-curated two-CD collections, this new – and sadly final – volume is a multi-genre delight, taking the listener from house to baggy via post-punk, proto-grunge, minimalist avant-garde, the advent of sampling and more.