Rock

Remembrance Rock 

Five Years Gone: Remembering Tom Petty

October 2, 2022October 2, 2022 Dave Steinfeld 0 Comments American Girl, Benmont Tench, Free Fallin', Full Moon Fever, George Harrison, Howie Epstein, Jeff Lynne, Johnny Cash, Mike Campbell, Rick Rubin, Ron Blair, Southern Accents, Steve Farrone, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Reflecting on 20 of his most memorable songs

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Bruce Folk North Americana Rock 

Reason to Believe: Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska at 40

September 30, 2022September 30, 2022 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Atlantic City, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Highway Patrolman, Johnny 99, Mansion on the Hill, My Father's House, Nebraska, Open All Night, Reason to Believe, Used Cars

Looking back on an album of “absurd intimacy”

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Art Pop Britpop Dance Dance Rock Indie Rock Pop Rock 

WATCH: Fujiya & Miyagi Share “New Body Language”

September 29, 2022September 29, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, David Best, Fujiya & Miyagi, Impossible Objects of Desire, New Body Language, Slight Variations

Dig the video for the latest single off the Brighton group’s new album Slight Variations

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Alternative Rock Hard Rock Heavy Metal Rock 

Empty Fossil of the New Scene: Alice In Chains’ Dirt at 30

September 29, 2022September 30, 2022 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 30th Anniversary, Alice in Chains, Dam That River, Dirt, Facelift, God Smack, Jerry Cantrell, Layne Staley, Mike Starr, Rain When I Die, Rooster, Sean Kinney, Sick Man, Them Bones, William DuVall, Would?

Nathan Carson checks out the band’s sophomore classic for the very first time

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Alternative Rock Britpop Rock 

Lucky Men: The Verve’s Urban Hymns at 25

September 29, 2022September 29, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1997, 25th Anniversary, Allen Klein, Andrew Loog Oldham, Bernard Butler., Bitter Sweet Symphony, Lucky Man, Nick McCabe, Simon Tong, Sonnet, The Drugs Don't Work, The Rolling Stones, The Verve, Urban Hymns

Looking back on the album that helped break the band in America

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Blues Dylan Folk Rock 

Not Dark Yet: Bob Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind at 25

September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1997, 25th Anniversary, Bob Dylan, Cold Irons Bound, Daniel Lanois, Dirt Road Blues, Down In The Groove, Empire Burlesque, Highlands, Infidels, Knocked Out Loaded, Love Sick, Lovesick, Not Dark Yet, Saved, Shot of Love, Time Out of Mind, U2

Looking back on a legend reclaiming his legacy

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Alternative Rock Experimental Psychedelics Rock 

Spiritualized Floats Back Into Boston

September 27, 2022September 27, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 2022, Boston, Desiree Gillespie, Everything Was Beautiful, J. Spaceman, Jason Pierce, Jenna Byrd, Royale Club, Sha'Leah Nikole Stubblefield, Spacemen 3, The Velvet Underground

Jason Pierce and company compensate stage presence for dazzling visuals

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Alternative Rock Folk Rock 

Let the Golden Age Begin: Beck’s Sea Change at 20

September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 2002, 20th Anniversary, Beck, Beck Hansen, DGC Records, Dust Brothers, Lost Cause, Mellow Gold, Midnite Vultures, Mutations, Nigel Godrich, Odelay, Paper Tiger, Sea Change, The Golden Age

How a broken-hearted Mr. Hansen expressed himself pastorally

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Hard Rock Heavy Metal Rock 

Icicles Within My Brain: Black Sabbath’s Vol. 4 at 50

September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 Matt Hanson 0 Comments 1972, 50th anniversary, Bill Ward, Black Sabbath, Cornucopia, FX, Geezer Butler, Laguna Sunrise, Ozzy Osbourne, Snowblind, St. Vitus Dance, Supernaut, Tomorrow’s Dream, Tony Iommi, Vol. 4, Wheels of Confusion

Looking back on the metal legends’ cocaine-fueled masterpiece

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Pop Rock 

Easy For Her to Say: Linda Ronstadt’s Get Closer at 40

September 25, 2022September 25, 2022 Thomas Inskeep 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Asylum Records, Billy Joe Shaver, Get Closer, Ike and Tina Turner, Jimmy Webb, Linda Ronstadt, Lindsey Buckingham, Peter Asher, The Exciters

The final mainstream pop album the iconic singer would make for seven years is a gleefully mixed bag 

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jazz Rock 

Learn to Work the Saxophone: Steely Dan’s Aja at 45

September 24, 2022September 24, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1977, 45th Anniversary, Aja, Bernard Purdie, Black Cow, Chuck Rainey, Clydie King, Deacon Blues, Dean Parks, Donald Fagen, Home at Last, I Got The News, Jim Keltner, Joe Sample, Josie, Larry Carlton, Michael McDonald, Peg, Steely Dan, Tim Schmit, Tom Scott, Victor Feldman, Walter Becker

Why Becker and Fagen’s sixth album together can also be considered their best

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Psychedelics Rock Southern Rock 

Tones of Home: Blind Melon at 30

September 22, 2022September 30, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Blind Melon, Capitol Records, David Briggs, No Rain, Rick Parahar, Shannon Hoon

The ill-fated band’s indelible debut makes its mark

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Alternative Rock Post-Punk Rock 

Straight to You: Nick Cave at 65

September 22, 2022September 22, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 1992, 1994, 65th birthday, Goth, Henry's Dream, Lollapalooza, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, The Mercy Seat, Warren Ellis

Looking back on the career of Australia’s Goth bard

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Alternative Rock Electronic Industrial Rock 

We Get What Pigs Deserve: Nine Inch Nails’ Broken EP at 30

September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 Ted Miller 1 Comment 1992, 30th Anniversary, Adam Ant, EP, Grammys, Happiness in Slavery, Nine Inch Nails, Pinion, Pretty Hate Machine, Suck, Trent Reznor, Wish

Looking back on the harshest music to ever win a Grammy

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Art Pop Glam Rock 

Roxy Music Celebrates 50 Years In Boston

September 20, 2022September 20, 2022 Jim Sullivan 3 Comments Andy Mackay, Avalon, Boston, Bryan Ferry, Concert, Do The Strand, Fonzi Thornton, Jealous Guy, John Lennon, MGM Music Hall, Paul Thompson, Phebe Edwards, Phil Manzanera, Roxy Music, Senab Adekunle

The reunited art-glam greats rock through their past, darkly and otherwise

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