1971

Progressive Rock Rock 

Yes Release Super Deluxe Edition of 1971’s Fragile

June 30, 2024July 1, 2024 Ron Hart 1 Comment 1971, 2024, Bill Bruford, Chris Squire, Fragile, Jon Anderson, Rhino, Rick Wakeman, Steve Howe, Super Deluxe Edition, Tony Kaye, Yes

Extended box set shines a new light on the prog greats’ classic fourth album

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Experimental Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock 

Pink Floyd to Release Special Edition of Atom Heart Mother

October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1970, 1971, Atom Heart Mother, Atom Heart Mother: Special Edition, David Gilmour, Hakone Aphrodite Festival, Japan, Meddle, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Richard Wright, Roger Waters, Sony Music

Special two-disc package includes rare Japan 1971 concert footage

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Hard Rock Rock 

The Who’s Life House Finally Comes To Life

October 2, 2023October 4, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1971, 2023, Glyn Johns, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Kit Lambert, Life House, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, The Who, Universal Music Enterprises, Who's Next, Who's Next / Life House

Inside the new Super Deluxe Edition of Who’s Next

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Hard Rock Rock 

Inside the Deluxe Editions of Alice Cooper’s Killer and School’s Out 

June 28, 2023June 29, 2023 Ron Hart 1 Comment 1971, 1972, Alice Cooper, Billion Dollar Babies, Deluxe Edition, Dennis Dunaway, Glen Buxton, Killer, Michael Bruce, Neal Smith, Rhino, School's Out

A chat with liner notes co-author and former CREEM editor Bill Holdship 

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Hard Rock Rock 

Aerosmith: Hear In The Past

April 26, 2022March 27, 2026 Justin Cober-Lake 0 Comments 1971, Aerosmith, Brad Whitford, Dream On, Joe Perry, Joey Kramer, Steven Tyler, The Road Starts Hear, Todd Hamilton

A recently unearthed early session tape kicks off a potentially fruitful archive series for the Boston rock legends

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Fusion jazz Rock 

I’ll Never Let Them Forget It: Celebrating A Tribute to Jack Johnson

April 8, 2022April 8, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 1971, A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea, Columbia Records, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Michael Henderson, Miles Davis, Sonny Sharrock, Steve Grossman

Remembering the time when Miles Davis assembled “the greatest rock and roll band you have ever heard”

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Folk jazz 

Joni Mitchell’s Archives: Digging the Roots of a Living Legend

December 22, 2021April 3, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1971, 2021, Archives, Archives Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971), Blue, Box sets, Canada, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Ottowa, Song For A Seagull

Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) traces the development of her seminal songs

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Glam Rock 

Turn and Face the Strange: Hunky Dory at 50

December 17, 2021April 3, 2022 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Bowie, Changes, David Bowie, Hunky Dory, Kooks, Life On Mars?, Queen Bitch, Ziggy Stardust

Time will never change our love for David Bowie’s fourth album

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Britpop Power Pop Rock 

Take An Inch, Take A Yard: 50 Years of Badfinger’s Straight Up

December 13, 2021December 13, 2021 Kara Tucker 1 Comment 1971, Baby Blue, Badfinger, Geoff Emerick, George Harrison, Joey Molland, Mal Evans, Paul McCartney, Pete Ham, Stan Polley, Straight Up, The Beatles

How Apple Records’ other big band made an album that still resonates five decades later

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Blues Rock 

Any Day Woman: 50 Years of Bonnie Raitt

December 12, 2021April 3, 2022 Christopher Treacy 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, Little Feat, Lowell George

With her eponymous 1971 debut, the California-born guitar legend was disrupting the template the others were establishing from the very start

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Pop Rock 

What If I’m Late: Nilsson Schmilsson at 50

November 30, 2021April 3, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Barbra Streisand, Goodfellas, Gordon Lightfoot, Gotta Get Up, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, Jump Into The Fire, Laura Nyro, Nilsson Schmilsson. Richard Perry, Randy Newman, Robert Altman, Russian Doll, The Beatles, Without You

In 1971, Harry Nilsson let the good times roll and made his greatest album

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Music Journalism Stones 

Brown Sugar, How Come You Taste So Bad?

October 20, 2021August 27, 2025 Jim Sullivan 2 Comments 1971, Bill Wyman, Brown Sugar, Charlie Watts, controversy, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor, racism, slavery, Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones

Assessing why the Stones cut their controversial 50-year-old hit single from the set list of the band’s current tour

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Folk Glam Rock 

Your Cloak Full Of Eagles: Electric Warrior Turns 50

September 25, 2021April 3, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Bang A Gong (Get It On), Bill Legend, Electric Warrior, Jeepster, Marc Bolan, Mickey Finn, New York Dolls, Rocky Horror, Steve Currie, T.Rex, the Bay City Rollers, The Jam, Ziggy Stardust

How Marc Bolan plugged in T.Rex and invented glam rock

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Country and/or Western Folk Psychedelics Rock 

If I Could Only Remember My Name Gets The Deluxe Edition It Deserves

September 14, 2021January 19, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1971, Atlantic, David Crosby, Graham Nash, If Only I Could Remember My Name, Jefferson Airplane, Jerry Garcia, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Rhino Records, Santana, The Grateful Dead

David Crosby’s solo debut revisited on 2-CD set featuring newly remastered audio and bonus material

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Beatle 

Above Us Only Sky: Imagine at 50

September 9, 2021March 29, 2022 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Crippled Inside, George Harrison, GIMME SOME TRUTH, Imagine, Jealous Guy, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Plastic Ono Band, Ringo Starr, The Beatles, Yoko Ono

A half century later, John Lennon’s second solo LP still stands as a towering testament to his artistry beyond The Beatles

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