Prog Update
In 2019 Renaissance embarked on an ambitious tour that included the backing of the 10-piece Renaissance Chamber Orchestra and featured the album 'Ashes Are Burning'. A real extra...
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Mick Fleetwood’s All-Star Tribute to Peter Green
Fleetwood Mac’s 'Rumours' album from 1977 is one of the biggest selling albums of all time. Since Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined the group in 1975, the...
Rolling Stones Reissues
Like many musical artists from the 1960's with a valued music catalog, the Rolling Stones continue to reissue their music in various formats and to issue previously unreleased...
Third Time’s the Charm | ‘Paul McCartney III’
It’s hard to say whether if Paul McCartney was not at home with extra time on his hands during lockdown if he would have made 'McCartney III' (Capitol),...
Music Books By Steve Matteo
2020 was a year filled with great music books. 'The Jimmy Page Anthology' (Genesis) is from one of the premier publishers of collectable books on rock music. Available...
Alternative Grammys by Steve Matteo
With the Grammys and many year-end polls once again largely ignoring music veterans, many quirkier releases, tribute albums and live albums, here are a handful of releases from...
Paperback Writer
Everybody had a hard year in 2020, but over the past 12-plus months, fans of the Beatles were treated to many great books on the group. Along with...
Yusuf / Cat Stevens – ‘Mona Bone Jakon’ and ‘Tea for the Tillerman’ 50th-anniversary boxsets reissues
Ever since the 50th anniversary of 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' by the Beatles in 2017, record companies have been undertaking massive reissue projects of albums marking...
It’s Time for the Zombies
Many groups from the British Invasion endured beyond the first pop wave of that sound. Of course, groups like, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who,...
Paul McCartney – ‘McCartney’ (1970)
It’s difficult writing about Paul McCartney’s debut solo album without separating it from the tensions and drama that surrounded its release and the break-up of the Beatles. The...