Greetings internet citizens! I’ve put my review online at Popdose for The Live Anthology, the fantabulous new box set from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Click here to read it. Quick review: Bribe your wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend/family member in any fashion necessary to get this as your holiday gift. It’s a must have!
Category: CD Reviews
CD Review: Bon Jovi – The Circle
Wait a minute! I was under the impression that The Circle was to be Bon Jovi’s return to form album. Sadly though, “returning to form” leaves a lot to the interpretation as to what “form” is. For those of us that discovered Bon Jovi early on and helped to raise them to superstardom, “form” means […]
Old 97s frontman Rhett Miller releases new solo CD via Shout! Factory
Rhett Miller is a busy guy. Just looking at the promotional blitz for his brand new self-titled solo album (out today via Shout! Factory) would make you tired. But then you add in Miller’s main duties as frontman for alt-country rockers The Old 97s, and you’ve got a good ol’ fashioned recipe for exhaustion for […]
Opening A Cabinet of Curiosities with Jane’s Addiction
Editor’s note: We’re going to turn things over to my tattoo covered brother from another mother, Brian from Broken Headphones for today’s post. In the following installment, Brian takes a look at the new Jane’s Addiction box set A Cabinet Full of Curiosities. Before I even start this review I have one thing to say […]
Ian Gillan – One Eye to Morocco
Ian Gillan has released a new solo album and it’s pretty good. Gillan is one of the most distinctive singers of the past 40 years, spawning a graveyard full of imitators and wanna-bes, most of whom never came close to matching his energy and power as frontman for Deep Purple. Before you start with the […]
Billy Sheehan – Holy Cow!
Some of the most talented musicians on the planet seem to get lost sometimes in the liner notes, next to the more recognizable “star” power. Billy Sheehan has luckily gotten more notice than some of his peers, and maybe a little bit of that has something to do with the fact that he’s so frikkin’ […]
Expanded reissue of Warren Zevon’s major label debut in stores today
Warren Zevon’s classic 1976 self-titled major label debut gets an upgrade with a deluxe edition that hits stores and digital download today. The brand new two CD version of Warren Zevon, Zevon’s classic Asylum Records debut produced by friend Jackson Browne, is fattened up with a second disc that is loaded to the brim with […]
Metallica + Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins = pretty Fookin’ good stuff!
Metallica’s Death Magnetic is now officially in stores, and seems to be getting high marks from fans and critics alike across the board. Here are some reviews from blog friends o’ mine including Rob @ 1888 Media, TJ @ Viva La Mainstream, and Chris Akin @ Pitriff.com shares no less than 4 reviews, including his […]
Bruce Springsteen digital EP, Tesla live DVD available this week
Just a reminder for you all that Magic Tour Highlights, the new digital EP release from Bruce Springsteen and the E. Street Band, was released on Tuesday. The release features Danny Federici’s final appearance with the band from March of this year, and guest appearances from Roger McGuinn, Alejandro Escovedo (on a duet of Escovedo’s […]
Celebrating 30 years of The Stranger by Billy Joel
“All summer, I was just taking in a lot of things – friends who would be splitting up, and others who would be getting together. The reason I called the album The Stranger wasn’t just because of the song. Each song on it seemed to have some kind of strangeness, some kind of alienation about […]