Have you watched Concert for George, the film of the memorial show held on the first anniversary of George Harrison’s passing? If you have, you witnessed performances by some of popular music’s best-known acts, including Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr. But you also saw a prominently featured artist whose name likely […]
10 of the Best Albums and Box Sets of 2024 Picking the 10 best albums and box sets of the year would involve too much arbitrariness, so here are 10 of the best rather than the 10 best. They’re listed alphabetically by artist. Click on the performers’ names for information about them or the recording […]
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Collective Soul, Here to Eternity. Atlanta-based Collective Soul has been around for three decades but on the evidence of its sprawling 20-track latest release, this rock group isn’t even close to running out of fresh musical ideas. Here to Eternity, the self-produced follow-up to 2022’s Vibrating, is brimming over with them, and the vast majority […]
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You may feel you can skip your daily weightlifting session on the day you lug home Muswell Hillbillies/Everybody’s in Show-biz – Everybody’s a Star, the eight-pound, 50th-anniversary edition of the Kinks’ first two albums for the RCA label. Delivering everything but group leader Ray Davies’s kitchen sink, the box set includes four CDs—one for each […]
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