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Music Review: Ringo Starr – ‘Postcards from Paradise’
Affable and steady-rocking, Ringo Starr's latest is more of the same - for better or worse.
Read More »Book Review: ‘John Lennon: The Collected Artwork’ – The Beatle as a Visual Artist
Lennon will always be best known as a musician, but this collection of his artwork provides a fascinating look into a different facet of an intelligent, opinionated and original mind.
Read More »I Shall Be Released: New Releases and Tours from Chick Corea, George Harrison, Sting, Minus the Bear and More
As Sting's musical 'The Last Ship' nears its Broadway premiere, the perennial pop star releases a live DVD of his own performances of the music.
Read More »Music Review: The Beatles – ‘The U.S. Albums’
Thirteen discs modeled after the Americanized editions that first-generation fans grew up with. The 'Capitol sound' has been mostly ditched in favor of the 2009 remasters.
Read More »The Beatles Re-Invade America – ‘The U.S. Albums’ Box Set Arrives 01/21/2014
Thirteen discs containing the stereo and mono versions of the Capitol Records albums are collected in one place.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Good Ol’ Freda’
Now a modest 60-ish grandmother, Freda has kept quiet all these years as part of the Beatles family, but here she details her story.
Read More »Music Review: Paul McCartney – ‘New’
Ending the longest drought between albums of all-new material that fans have had to endure, this one is well worth the wait.
Read More »TV Review: ‘Glee’ – ‘Tina in the Sky With Diamonds’
I’ll be honest. I groaned when I saw that part two of Glee‘s Beatles tribute on FOX was called “Tina in the Sky With Diamonds.” If you follow my Gleekonomics column at all, I have periodically complained about Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) as a character in the past, finding her grating …
Read More »Concert Review: Arctic Monkeys at the Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA, October 1, 2013
The Wiltern was the place to be last Tuesday night as the storied English rockers delivered the goods to a packed house of screaming fans.
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