Tag Archives: Classic Rock and Oldies

I've had it with remixes.

The News The Eagles’ original vinyl Asylum Records catalog, including each of their albums between 1972 and 1980, will be released as the Eagles Box, a limited-edition, nine-disc set including the debut of their “Please Come Home For Christmas/Funky New Year” single on CD. The Eagles Box will showcase each …

Second-wave feminists in the late 60’s and early 70’s had a rock and roll voice, sung by bands such as the Chicago and New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Bands. Precursors to today’s riot grrl and queercore bands, they broke through and gave women in the liberation movements their own rock …

(click to enter) In defiance of the trend toward the Anglicization of the Beatle catalog worldwide — when the Beatles catalog was released on CD in 1987, releases were standardized on a worldwide basis and eventually the U.S. albums, which had last appeared on vinyl and cassette, were deleted — …

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I am more saddened than usual to hear of the death of Terry Melcher at the all-too-young age of 62 from a melanoma. I had the fortune of speaking to Melcher at some length in the late-’90s and we had kept in touch periodically since. I was unaware of his …

This concert DVD will be a real treat for fans of Procol Harum and classic rock in general. It presents the band in all its glory, playing the final show of a world tour that ended in December 2003 at the beautiful and majestic Union Chapel in Islington, London. The …

The great, ageless roots rocker John Fogerty — singer, songwriter, lead guitarist and producer of Creedence Clearwater Revival — is back with his most iconic album since the days of Creedence, as accessible as Centerfield but much more timely and pointed. On this one Fogerty makes it clear he has …

After I assembled the Straight Outta Cleveland collection in ’95, we tried to put together a concert to celebrate, but a Raspberries reunion was held to be essential to making the thing really go. I talked with Eric Carmen’s brother, who was managing him at the time, and we went …

In which we learn that you CAN go home again. . .