Originally released early in 1980, the first album from Split Enz marked the band’s emergence as a major force in Australian pop music, spending ten weeks in the number one spot. The album’s chart success had a lot...
The time couldn’t be more ripe for a new Bob Dylan album to emerge; his first in eight years, consisting of original material, includes three songs released over six weeks as singles. A Murder Most Foul – a 17-minute epic...
Covering iconic songs from The Great American Songbook can be fraught with danger, sometimes resulting in performances that sound like pale imitations of the original versions. James Taylor, however, has an innate ability to...
Among fusion musicians whose careers began to take off in the 1970s, guitarist Pat Metheny can be said to have a genuinely individual voice. Avoiding the histrionics associated with many of his peers, Metheny, who cites The...
Stone Temple Pilots – one of the most successful rock bands of the 1990s – have released their first acoustic album Perdida, named for a Spanish word for ‘loss’. While many fans may have thought the album’s...