Editorial Product Review: :This career-spanning box of three CDs and a DVD celebrates a legacy that looms larger than that of any blues-rocking guitarist since Jimi Hendrix. Despite fears that a series of posthumous releases had depleted the Stevie Ray Vaughan vaults, previously unreleased gems dominate the selection. Highlights extend from Vaughan's swaggering apprenticeship with Paul Ray and the Cobras to slash-and-burn concert performances from the final month of his life. There are obligatory dips into the songbooks of Hendrix and Buddy Guy, appearances on MTV Unplugged and Austin City Limits, and instrumental interplay with ...
Editorial Product Review: :Concept: Charlie Sexton in dream date with a second killer guitarist/vocalist (Doyle Bramhall II), Stevie Ray Vaughan's rhythm section and producer Little Steven. Result: A can't-fail combo that swings like vintage Stones/Bad Company. --Jeff Bateman
Editorial Product Review: :A slew of albums by young white men out of their minds in love with music made by older black men came from both sides of the Atlantic during the mid-1960s, but two records really laid the groundwork for the decade's blues revival--the self-titled releases by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers out of London and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band out of Chicago. Both bands were led by harmonica-blowing vocalists; both featured ascending guitar gods--Eric Clapton with Mayall and Mike Bloomfield with Butterfield. Butterfield's ensemble, however, came of age closer to the roots of ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:Everything came together for Little Feat's third album. An expanded lineup gave the Feat a more supple rhythmic base, Lowell George penned some of his strongest numbers, and they developed an oozy studio sound that suited them to a T. The title track, 'Fat Man in a Bathtub,' and 'Two Trains' distilled compounded rhythms, wailing background vocals, and adroit wordplay into an intoxicating soul-rock swill. In many ways, Dixie Chicken stands as a kind of kissing cousin to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, which hit the streets one ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007. essential recording:Think of Ry Cooder as a musicologist who makes learning fun. A particularly nifty collection from 1974, Paradise & Lunch is solo Cooder at his best. The song selection is inspired and unpredictable: numbers by Burt Bacharach, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Bobby Womack commingle with ease. 'Tattler' is a rare Ry original that happens to be one of the collection's highlights. Jazz legend Earl Hines guests on the dapper 'Ditty Wa Ditty.' --Steven Stolder
Editorial Product Review:Album Details:Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork. :One of those bands that perfectly epitomized so many things about the 1970s, Little Feat created a strangely smooth and sexy pastiche of Southern-spiced blues-rock. Main man Lowell George's undulant slide guitar marked the group's early recordings. His vocals, meanwhile, were distinctive in the manner in which he toyed with vowels as if they were yo-yos, tossing them up and down, this way and that. The albums recorded prior to ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Details:Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork. :One of those bands that perfectly epitomized so many things about the 1970s, Little Feat created a strangely smooth and sexy pastiche of Southern-spiced blues-rock. Main man Lowell George's undulant slide guitar marked the group's early recordings. His vocals, meanwhile, were distinctive in the manner in which he toyed with vowels as if they were yo-yos, tossing them up and down, this way and that. The albums recorded prior to ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:DECEMBER'S CHILDREN marked a crucial point in the Stones' development. The band was beginning to move away from its blues/R&B roots toward something more uniquely its own. Certainly those roots were far from absent in the songs composed for this album, and the Stones still cover their share of the masters here (Chuck Berry, Arthur Alexander, Hank Snow), but something new was afoot. The aching ballad 'As Tears Go By,' complete with baroque orchestration, heralded a new direction in the Stones' songwriting. Similarly, the folk-rockish strains of 'The Singer Not The ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Previously released over the internet, this critically acclaimed double live CD is finally available to the masses.20 tracks Recorded Live at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in the fall of 1999. Jimmy Page, one of rock music's greatest guitarists combined with The Black Crowes, one of today's best live bands, delivers ripping Zep classics like 'What Is And What Should Never Be', 'The Lemon Song', 'Your Time Is Gonna Come', 'Nobody's Fault But Mine', and more, as well as the bonus blues classic 'Mellow Down Easy',and enhanced live video footage. ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Made up of two 1971 (March 12 & 13 along with June 27) visits by Les Brers to New York, 'The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East' has long been regarded as one of rock's great live albums, but portions of those legendary performances have also wound up on albums like 'Eat A Peach' (the awesome, half-hour 'Mountain Jam') & the Duane Allman anthology. Now, for the first time, all recordings (in their original mixes) lifted from the Fillmore East dates have been assembled together into a two disc double gatfold ...
Editor Annalee Newitz reveals the inspiration for the futurism-focused site's name, shares her obsession with the scientifically taboo and tells why sci-fi is going mainstream.
Editor Annalee Newitz reveals the inspiration for the futurism-focused site's name, shares her obsession with the scientifically taboo and tells why sci-fi is going mainstream.
It's June 29th and Apple is finally ready to let the public play with the iPhone. The past six months have shaped up to be the highest profile mobile phone launch ever, Apple has conjured up an...
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