The seventh studio album by The Band, Islands,(released 3/15/77) is the final such effort from the group’s original lineup. And its deceptively picturesque cover image is as telling as its
With quarter-century hindsight, U2’s Pop (released 3/3/97) takes on more significance than it had at the time of its original release. Or in the interim immediately following for that matter.
Just as the eponymous debut of Hot Tuna created the template for the Jefferson Airplane offshoot in its acoustic format, the fifty-year-old third album by the group, Burgers, defines the
The Beach Boys underwent what is arguably the most radical transformation of any band in the contemporary rock of the Sixties and Seventies. The group’s sound metamorphosed from its forays
At the time of recording 2021’s somewhat diffuse EP, The Makarrata Project, Midnight Oil also tracked another dozen songs which comprise their final studio effort as a group. Resist stands
More than a half-century since its release, The Allman Brothers Band’s concert album, At Fillmore East, remains their signature release. It is, in fact, the title by which most people
Produced and arranged by Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison, Big Head Todd and the Monsters’ Beautiful World (released 2/11/97) sounds as polished and potent a quarter-century after its release as it
Given the tumult surrounding the Byrds at the end of 1966, it’s a wonder the group created such a stellar album as Younger Than Yesterday. Yet hindsight of over a
With the release of the (slightly) expanded version of 1999’s #447, the perpetually inner-directed and purposeful Marshall Crenshaw continues the reissue of his live and studio output originally released over
Blasphemous as it might sound, Neil Young’s most commercially-successful album Harvest (released 2/1/72) is an object lesson in appealing to the lowest common denominator. Not that such underachieving was the
