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Music Reviews: Lovin’ Spoonful’s Complete Recordings, plus Joey Quinones and JP Soars with Anne Harris
The band continually reinvented itself, serving up hits that each seemed quite unlike the one that came before.
Read More »10 Underappreciated Music Acts You Need to Hear
Dwight Twilley's best work is characterized by jangly, ringing guitars, indelible rhythm, and shimmering, full-bodied productions that equal the finest work of acts like Electric Light Orchestra.
Read More »I Shall Be Released: Neil Young ’90s Classics, The Cranberries, Philly’s Franklin, Held., and the Long-Lost ‘Marina’
Deluxe editions from Neil Young and The Cranberries and a world premiere recording of a long-lost opera highlight this week's new-release news.
Read More »I Shall Be Released: My Chemical Romance, Neil Diamond, AleeN ROSE (Daughters of Willie Nelson & Leon Russell), Fanny Mendelssohn’s Complete Piano Works
Amy Lee Nelson, daughter of Willie Nelson, and Tina Rose Bridges, daughter of Leon Russell, have released their first single as newly-formed duo AleeN ROSE.
Read More »I Shall Be Released: Josh Groban, Jon Batiste, Neil Young, Min Kwon, and More
Groban takes on movie music, Batiste reinterprets popular Mozart melodies, and pianist Min Kwon commissions 76 variations on "America the Beautiful."
Read More »Bowie, Dylan, Eagles, Pretenders, Hank Williams, Grateful Dead and Much More: 21 Stupendous Big Box Sets for Music Fans
Here are 21 of popular music’s most spectacular gargantuan anthologies, each featuring 10 or more discs.
Read More »Music Reviews: Steve Forbert, plus Andy Hedges, Dwight + Nicole, a Rockabilly Anthology, and George Usher
Forbert was about 60 when he made this record, and he spends some of it looking back.
Read More »Music Reviews: Jimmie Rodgers’ ‘A Career Anthology,’ plus the Cucumbers
"He didn’t sugarcoat things. He put a lot of things out there that were the way they really were. And he knew a lot.”
Read More »Music Reviews: 99 Hits from 1956 and Two Blasts from the Blasters’ Past
Like its predecessors, this latest compendium inevitably sounds as if it were designed for someone with multiple personalities.
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