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Twenty years (and change) pass in the time that it takes a ninja to overtake you in a shady grove.

When Prince started to grab the mass libido in the eighties, I didn't pay proper attention to what he was doing. Caught up a couple of y...

Can't think of a better way to celebrate record store day than paying a visit to Amoeba Records on Haight Street in San Francisco. Fli...

Representing a massive creative step forward, Zep's fifth saw the "blues" subtly muted in favor of experimentation. There ar...

I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T-Rex To the sound of old T-Rex, oh and Who's Next

This mighty slab of mid-70s Aerosmith turns 41 today. Young, high and on a creative roll with their third (and best) album, no less than ...

Cruelly reduced to a punch line by an SNL skit, here is a band that has received very little recognition despite a solid body of work. Str...

Years before rock singers began to churn out their renditions of "standards" came this gem. This disc has long been a personal f...

The Wings Over America tour in the summer of '76 was much more of a highlight than this uneven LP would prove to be, yet there are a f...

Beware the Ides of March, for it was on this date in 1976 that KISS, grease-painted purveyors of loud rock'n'roll and anonymity, r...

Take a few moments out of your day to appreciate this gifted musician in full flight. Words do not apply nor are they necessary.

Today would have been Rory Gallagher's 68th birthday. To mark the occasion, here is a review from 2011 of Notes from San Francisco

With so much fanfare around the 40th anniversary of Frampton Comes Alive, it is easy for the casual listener to overlook the artistic path...

For every person who has been captivated by the look, feel and sound of the guitar, this is an event that musicians and serious collectors...

Thirty three years after its initial appearance, which was swiftly followed by commercial success (US and UK #1) and critical plaudits, th...

Rainfall, thunder and the distant chiming of a bell herald those ominous three notes that kick off the first Black Sabbath album, which wa...

Les Claypool and Sean Lennon have formed a mutual admiration society, which began with some acoustic jamming while their bands shared the ...

There is an endless river of ideas, sounds and pictures quietly flowing just a few feet above the heads of humanity. Those that are fortun...

As an apple-cheeked, chemically altered 15 year old, it was my duty to buy this cassette in the week it was released because CIRCUS magazi...

It is with much sadness that I write a few sentences in tribute to a true ambassador of rock and roll. As these words take shape, I am dri...