The Last Cougar: John Mellencamp’s Big Daddy at 30
Indiana’s finest took a big step forward at the close of the decade that defined him
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Kid Creole & The Coconuts: From Paris With Love
Swinging World Music Superstar, August Darnell, Looks Back on 1985
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ALBUM REVIEW: Alan Parsons Shows Us a “Miracle”
The prog icon returns to classic sound on The Secret
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Happy Birthday Bob Dylan!
The man born Robert Zimmerman turns 78
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The Ardent Sons: Drummer Tony T. Sales Steps Out on His Own
Third generation scion of legendary family builds upon the music he was raised on
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Can’t Stop Running: Todd Rundgren’s ‘Nearly Human’ at 30
The Wizard of Mink Hollow closes out the 80s with an underrated classic
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Sing Me A Sweet, Sweet Song: Badlands at 30
When Jake E. Lee and Ray Gillen formed a potent supergroup that never go its chance to fully shine
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Uriah Heep: Still ‘Eavy After All These Years
British prog rockers 25th album captures the band’s classic sound
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Has Mick Jagger Lost The Plot?
As a new video depicts the 75-year-old Rolling Stones frontman dancing away after heart surgery, Tim Sommer wonders if its just another cheap trick from rock’s greatest stunt queen
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Something’s Coming On: The Rise of Joe Cocker & the Grease Band
In honor of his 75th birthday, we look back at the late singer’s pivotal 1969
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My Own Private Solstice: Sunny Day Real Estate’s Diary at 25
The legendary Seattle group’s debut LP reinvented guitar rock for the second half of the 1990s
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Jimbo Mathus: Above The Nut
The lead Zipper heads into the abyss with a song in his heart
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Better Than Murder Ballads? Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ Let Love In at 25
A look back at a most overlooked album in the Australian alt-rock icon’s canon
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Will Kimbrough: The Hardest Working Man in Nashville
The Americana mainstay and in-demand session guitarist returns to the solo life with I Like It Down Here
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The Liza Colby Sound Premieres Debut LP In Listening Session
On the forthcoming Object to Impossible Destination, the NYC group makes the streets of Rock ‘n’ Roll Manhattan dangerous again
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