Don’t be deceived, like I was, by the title of this set from Humble Pie. Rather than a decade long history of the band, which would have been quite welcome, this five disc set is largely the last gasps of…
View More Humble Pie – Hallelujah 1973-1983 (5CD Boxset)
The final instalment of Blue Öyster Cult’s September 2022 three night stand at Sony Hall in New York City has arrived, featuring the third album from the band’s long career, Secret Treaties. This is the album that found the band…
View More Blue Öyster Cult – 50th Anniversary Live: Third Night
Dearly Beloved: A Prince Songbook, a compilation of Prince covers by a wide variety of artists, proves two things. First, Prince Rogers Nelson was a musical genius (but you already knew that). Second, he was also an underachiever of sorts.…
View More Various Artists – Dearly Beloved: A Prince Songbook (3CD Digipak)
Pattern-Seeking Animals have been a rather prolific band. Having released their debut album in 2019, these Spock’s Beard-aligned musicians have developed a sound that is all their own in the ensuing years. Friend Of All Creatures sets out to prove…
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The history of Osibisa goes way back to Ghana in the 1950s, when saxophonist Teddy Osei was a member of a highlife (a fusion of traditional African music with Western jazz) band. He moved to London on a music scholarship…
View More Osibisa – The Warner Bros Albums
Fernando Perdomo never sleeps. Ever. How else do you explain his incredibly prolific output? He is a solo artist with a surfeit of albums under his own name. He is in bands with Dave Kerzner, Carmine Appice and Ruti Celli…
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When Mountain first appeared on the scene in 1969, guitarist Leslie West had already begun to make a name for himself as part of New York area band The Vagrants. The newly formed Mountain even managed to secure a spot…
View More Mountain – Live In The UK (6 CD Boxset)
Neal Morse and John Mitchell are in a competition to see how many bands each man can be a part of. In his bid for supremacy, Morse has recruited a rather talented young group of local Tennessee men to his…
View More Neal Morse And The Resonance – No Hill For A Climber
Last year, Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius released the killer live album, Behind The Curtain – Live At Progstock. The CD/DVD was a perfect representation of the energy, talent and drive that the band puts forth in concert. Following up on…
View More Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius – Impostor!
Box sets can be a dicey proposition. As a huge fan of their documentary approach to an artist or scene, they can contain everything you need to know in terms of popular output while also addressing rarities and other surprises.…
View More Vanilla Fudge – Where Is My Mind? The Atco Recordings 1967 – 1969