Tag Archives: Classic Rock and Oldies

If guitar music is your thing pick up this disc on October 25th. You won't be disappointed.

Bonnie Raitt is one of the premier rock/blues performers in North America right now.

After more than three decades and a lot of seriously toxic water over the bridge, the great, ageless roots-rocker John Fogerty — singer, songwriter, lead guitarist and producer of Creedence Clearwater Revival — has returned to Fantasy Records. Yes, you read that correctly, and hell is still pretty toasty as …

(Warning: This Album Can Cause Severe Flashbacks. Listen To Only If Feeling Secure)

This is how much things have changed around here: two years ago the late-summer lull (we used to have such things) of August 23, 2003 produced a grand total of five (yes five) posts on Blogcritics. By way of comparison, today we already have 25 posts at 9 a.m. Zounds! …

The familar scene: the Stones gearing up to hit the road again, this time for their “A Bigger Bang Tour,” an 18-month sojourn across the planet which launches in Boston on Sunday and has already sold out 98% of available tickets. The press collectively marvels at a) how remarkably OLD …

Since Blogcritics has been around for three years now and has accumulated about 32,000 stories(!), we thought it would be amusing and/or edifying to start a new feature — From the Blogcritics Vaults — where we will look at a Blogcritics story from either 1, 2 or 3 years ago …

Trying to put rock and pop musicians in a standard television setting often means some aspect of the music performance is diminished. That is not the case with the performances on The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons. To the contrary, this three-DVD set contains slices of rock music history. The …

If there ever was a more unlikely pairing of band and town, one doesn’t spring to mind.

It seems the catalogue of books about the Beatles is limitless. Written as an “insider” view, Magical Mystery Tours is a gossipy and intimate entry in that catalogue. Tony Bramwell grew up with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon in Liverpool. Bramwell was around as the three began playing …