…The box set collects the two albums the band recorded for Atlantic Records during their peak commercial period: ‘Spend the Night’ (2002) and ‘Gold Medal’ (2004). The third disc is a collection of bonus tracks, B-sides, acoustic versions, and live performances.
So said the publicity at the time of its release, this despite these four girls being, “Every mother’s nightmare, every school boy’s dream,” according to Spin magazine. Spin also reckoned they were, “The coolest band in America,” whereas Kerrang! recognised their, “Grimy, glorious rock ‘n’ roll… dripping star power and packing irresistible pop-rock.”
Taking inspiration from the punky pop rock of the Ramones and The Runaways, mixed with..
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Over a winding run that began in the late ’90s but traces back even further, Boston-area psych band Major Stars have honed their own unique and specific vision of psychedelic rock. It’s a sound that at times echoes the ragged power of the Bay Area acid rockers of the ’60s, but also nods to the influence of outsider artistry, and stands apart from any obvious influence with the band’s intricate triple-guitar arrangements.
More Colors of Sound follows 2019’s Roots of Confusion, Seeds of Joy, and once again showcases both Major Stars’ high-output guitar intensity and their mystifying psychedelic songwriting style. The album is made up of eight songs, pared down from a double album’s worth of material. This is the second album with vocalist…
Kiss’ third album Dressed to Kill – the edge of their commercial breakthrough – is getting done up to the nines for its 50th anniversary.
…The 1975 release, featuring “C’mon and Love Me” and, arguably the group’s signature song “Rock and Roll All Nite,” has been newly remastered by Bernie Grundman. Bonus audio material includes 23 unreleased demos and outtakes, including the unissued songs “Mistake” and “Burning Up with Fever,” and the debut release of two concerts recorded in 1975 and utilized for the group’s breakthrough Alive! Here, they’ve newly mixed by Alive! engineer Eddie Kramer – and, crucially, stripped of any studio overdubs utilized on that “concert” LP.
…Though the New York quartet had a taste for…
In every permutation, Bad Company were a rollicking good-time band, but it’s fair to say that the six albums Paul Rodgers fronted remain the most beloved by the fan base. Much like Black Sabbath, it was the Ozzy Osbourne years that have stood the test of time, demonstrating the importance of a lead singer to a group. On this tribute album, Can’t Get Enough: A Tribute to Bad Company, Rodgers guests on three different tracks, gently guiding younger artists in their efforts to find truth in his work.
Drummer Simon Kirke, like Rodgers, appears on “Seagull”, which boasts Def Leppard songwriters Joe Elliott and Phil Collen as well. In this stripped-down fashion, this arrangement recalls Elliott’s yearning “Two Steps Behind”. A vocal spar…
The four-CD Deluxe Edition of the set includes a remastered version of the original album, discs of rarities and previously unreleased songs, and a live show recorded just weeks after the album’s release in October 1975.
…Though The Last Record Album was not Little Feat’s final effort, it did mark a significant change in the band’s process. Frontman, producer and songwriter Lowell George ceded some compositional ground to keyboardist Bill Payne and guitarist Paul Barrere. Their growing interest in jazz fusion would push the band away from the southern-inspired boogie rock George favored. (He sang lead on five of the album’s nine tracks, and wrote or co-wrote only three.) Despite this increasingly fractious arrangement,…
5-CD Super Deluxe Edition that features Zappa’s entire October 31, 1978, performance as well as a bonus gig from earlier in the Palladium residency on October 27.
…Zappa’s annual Halloween shows took root at New Jersey’s (also sadly demolished) Capitol Theatre in 1972 before moving to Chicago in 1973 and then, finally, New York City in 1974. Zappa knew how special these yearly events were, even filming Baby Snakes: The Movie at the 1977 shows. Sadly, the tradition was short-lived, taking a break in 1979 and 1980 (the latter year for health reasons) before returning in 1981 with two shows taped for broadcast on MTV and therefore designed as much for the at-home viewing audience as those in the Palladium’s seats.
Nebraska occupies a pivotal place in Bruce Springsteen’s catalogue, but for some that has never been enough. Ever since the legend of Electric Nebraska – Nebraska’s band-recorded alter ego – emerged, fans have wanted to unpick the knotty relationship between Nebraska and Born in the USA and hear electrified E Street versions of this sombre acoustic album.
As recently as June 2025, Springsteen was denying Electric Nebraska even existed – and nothing appeared on the recent, epic Tracks II set – but the mythical album is finally here, thanks to the deus ex machina of Deliver Me From Nowhere, a Bruce biopic that focuses on his angsty wrestling match between artistry and commerce (spoiler alert: he could have both).
The 2022 debut from Kansas City duo Katy Guillen & The Drive (led by music and life partners singer/guitarist Katy Guillen and drummer Stephanie Williams), Another One Gained, offered a solid indie rock record that leaned into a variety of influences from roots to garage rock.
But on their follow-up, Make That Sound, the pair wanted to bring more female energy and ideas to the studio and ultimately the record, so they reached out to producer Megan McCormick (Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah). The result is a collection of tracks that is more focused than their debut while being much more musically adventurous.
The album opener, “Outcome,” is a solid indie rock number that would fit nicely alongside the other tracks off their debut, but what follows…
Andromeda was a psychedelic/progressive rock trio formed by singer-guitarist John Cann (also known as John Du Cann), formerly of the psychedelic garage band the Attack, Mick Hawksworth (bass, vocals), and Ian McClane (drums, vocals). The group performed in various London venues including Middle Earth and the Marquee Club. Cann’s guitar was the dominant instrument, leading listeners through classically based psychedelic and progressive directions and creative dissonances, contributing to the trio’s impressive live sets. Andromeda combined their own original writing with elements appropriated out of familiar classical material. They were signed to RCA in 1969 but before that they’d appeared live on the BBC’s Top Gear program in 1968, and in…
British rocker Miles Kane joins forces with the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach for his bluesy and bombastic sixth album, 2025’s Sunlight in the Shadows. A gleefully obvious case of what you see is what you get, the album (which follows 2023’s One Man Band) finds Kane and producer / instrumentalist Auerbach essentially playing out their idol worship of Marc Bolan’s T. Rex, crafting psych-soaked glitter stomp anthems drenched in fuzztone guitars. It’s a throwback, vinyl-era aesthetic both artists have explored on previous albums and one which has been a creative touchstone for Kane going as far back as his Last Shadow Puppets albums.
Here, they recorded live in studio, backed by a potent cadre of instrumentalists, including…
On her last solo break from The Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde recorded an album of Bob Dylan covers, accompanied by guitarist James Walbourne. The arrangements were simple, but you could feel the depth of her understanding of the songs in her voice. Four years on she’s released another covers album, this time songs by different artists, sung as duets with different singers.
Here too you sense her relationship with the songs. An interesting selection, mostly on the slow side, there’s retro pop (‘Love Letters’, with Garbage’s Shirley Manson; ‘It’s Only Love’, with Julian Lennon); R&B (‘Me & Mrs Jones’, with k.d. lang; ‘Every Little Bit Hurts’, with Carleen Anderson); and psychedelic folk (‘Dolphins’, with Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan). The project grew from…
…include the newly mixed and mastered tracks, two B-sides and three previously unreleased demo recordings.
Daniel “Soupy” Campbell, the lead singer and lyricist of The Wonder Years, has never been a guy hesitant to wear his heart on his sleeve, which, of course, is part of the point of being in what is generally thought of as an emo band. But while Campbell has always had plenty to say about the stories of fellow kids from Philly trying to make sense of an often unforgiving world, he’s chosen to take on bigger themes on the Wonder Years’ fifth album. Released in 2015, No Closer to Heaven is a song cycle Campbell has written from the perspective of a man struggling to come to terms with the death of a loved one,…
Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Weiss began drum lessons when he was only four years old and also plays guitar, bass and piano (being self-taught on these). He began writing songs at seven years old and went on to play in various bands throughout his youth. The band Andrew Weiss and Friends was formed in 2016 and the band’s debut LP, The Honeymoon Suite was released in 2018, followed by 2020’s The Golden Age of Love & Chemistry, 2021’s Highly Fascinated, Sunglass & Ash (2022), in 2023, Beverly Hills, Thanksgiving Day and in 2024, the world’s smallest violin.
So the latest release, The Last of the Outdoor Kids, continues the band’s trend of having interesting album titles (the latest one relating…
…The nine-track album includes rarities, alternate takes and live cuts, including a blistering performance from their final show outside America. “In 1965, I hoped this band might pay my rent for a decade or so,” John Densmore tells Uncut, “but it’s 60 years and we are still talking about The Doors. I am very grateful and very proud. It’s so kind of Uncut to make this CD.”
…Across nine songs and 44 minutes, we take a trip with Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison from an alternate take of “Love Me Two Times”, right up to their stunning performance at 1970’s Isle of Wight Festival.
Along the way, there are outtakes from LA Woman, a demo from Waiting for the Sun, a raw Soft Parade track stripped of its orchestration…
What happens after the spotlight is directed towards another target? In the case of Liverpool and the Merseybeat boom – which, in terms of chart success, peaked in 1963 – the question is addressed by Liverpool Sunset: The City After Merseybeat 1964–1969. The city’s musicians carried on, despite record labels looking elsewhere for the next big thing, and despite the Liverpool tag no longer ensuring an automatic interest.
The final (identifiably) Merseybeat bands to debut on the charts were The Escorts, with “The One to Cry” in July 1964, The Undertakers, with “Just a Little Bit” in April 1964, and The Mojos, with “Everything’s Alright” in March 1964. None of these were debut singles, but that was it for burgeoning Merseybeat contenders and…
When rock music from Germany gained international recognition under the label “krautrock” in the 1970s, it was far more than a mind-expanding phenomenon. In basements, youth centers, and improvised studios, a vibrant scene emerged-shaped by fearless curiosity and a strong will to transcend traditional musical structures. Some bands produced only a single recording; others became experimental platforms for established musicians or transient fixtures in local underground milieus. What united them was a desire to cross boundaries: rock met jazz, folk merged with electronics, soul touched the avantgarde. These intersections produced soundscapes that remain powerful documents of a creatively restless era.
