Dec 08, 2023
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If the last Doors live release, Live at the Matrix 1967, represented the band at its nascent best, Live in Bakersfield from just three-and-a-half years later documents in some ways an entirely different band.
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Dec 07, 2023
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Wings of Desire are a new UK duo from former members of alt rock group INHEAVEN, which finds them trading their previous project’s moodier soundscapes for cathartic anthems. At their best, bandmates James Taylor and Chloe Little tap into something elemental, writing narratives for life’s beauty and tragedy.
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Dec 06, 2023
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If you’re not on your feet and dancing by the time Utopian’s opening track, “Cheerleader,” has been playing for 60 seconds, you might need to check your pulse: there’s every chance you might be dead.
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Dec 05, 2023
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There are few artists whose career retrospective merits a 14 CD box set, featuring a staggering 300+ songs. Billy Bragg is one of those few.
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Dec 04, 2023
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For Black Friday Record Store Day, Rhino released Grateful Dead’s final performance from the band’s four-day stand at the Fillmore West, pressed onto five vinyl records
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Dec 01, 2023
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Julie Byrne’s jaw-dropping 2023 LP, The Greater Wings, was her first in six years, and, rightly, likely to make an appearance in numerous album of the year lists.
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Nov 30, 2023
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Had Me a Real Good Time… is great (and great-sounding!) document of Faces’ live BBC performances.
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Nov 29, 2023
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From the moment the rich jangle of opener “Protocol” gives way to a plunging wave of warped guitar and ethereal melody, you know what you’re going to get from Hotline TNT’s second album, Cartwheel.
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Nov 28, 2023
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Some albums take you right back to the day you first heard them. Green Day’s Dookie, is one of those albums, and this grand, luxurious anniversary reissue is everything and more.
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Nov 27, 2023
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Recorded at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall and the Lodge Room in Los Angeles, MJ Lenderman’s latest is a rare thing—a live album that’s actually worth the listen.
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