Tag Archives: keith richards

Melissa Carper's 'A Very Carper Christmas' is the best Christmas album of 2025, and one of the very best so far in this century.

Pittsburgh rocker Joe Grushecky has been getting a fresh shot at wider acclaim thanks to several releases on the Omnivore label.

With 'Hackney Diamonds,' The Rolling Stones deliver their first album of new material since 2005. Plus, reviews of James Talley, Clay Parker and Jodi James, and the Babys.

A concert pays tribute to Willie Nelson, plus a reissue of Violent Femmes' debut and a new release from the mysterious Catbells.

'Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America' is the most gorgeous tour documentary I've ever come across. It's a religious experience for Rolling Stones fans and a testament to what they mean to people all over the world.

Two new releases out this month reexamine the legacy of The Rolling Stones' classic 1971 album 'Sticky Fingers' from different angles, and the results are as predictably mixed as you might expect.

As Stones shows go, L.A. Forum (Live In 1975) is a gas, gas, gas.

Two new releases from the vaults of the Rolling Stones are remastered concerts from 1975 and 1981. Only one of these gets the review treatment here. •

Boyd provides a serious and scholarly treatise on the nature of creativy, with quotes from 75 musicians from many areas of popular music.

Muscle Shoals, Alabama has been the creative fount for many iconic like musicians like Bono, The Stones and even Alicia Keyes.