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Levin Minnemann Rudess Special Edition
PerformanceSound The term supergroup gets a bad rap—but with good reason. Often, it’s applied to a collective of hot-shot all-star musicians who look pretty good together on paper, but the resulting...
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Eric Clapton: Give Me Strength: The...
PerformanceSound Eric Clapton was at the crossroads of Personal Hell Avenue and Professional Conundrum Street as the calendar turned to 1974. His crippling heroin addiction derailed the creative...
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Neil Finn: Dizzy Heights
PerformanceSound Neil Finn is a restless soul. Though the New Zealand–bred singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist has long mastered the craft of concocting melodic gems—Split Enz’s “I Got You,”...
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Michael Bloomfield
PerformanceSound“Best guitar player I ever heard.” Some hip muso waxing on about the next Hendrix? Nope, that’s Bob Dylan on the late Michael Bloomfield, and the Bard’s ears are some damn fine...
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Marillion: Sounds that Can’t Be Made — Special Edition
PerformanceSound Some bands sputter and wither after major personnel changes, and then there’s Marillion. The British neo-progressive collective’s first incarnation crested with 1985’s concept-driven...
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Jack Bruce: Silver Rails
PerformanceSound When it comes to delivering the low end, Jack Bruce has been the cream of the crop for six decades and counting. His syncopated approach to playing bass helped shift pop music’s...
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Circa Zero
PerformanceSound Never one to favor flash over substance, Andy Summers may very well be the most underrated guitarist of the rock era. Summers took a minimalist approach with his work for the...
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Billy Joel: A Matter of Trust: The Bridge
PerformanceSound“What did you do in the Cold War, Daddy?” It was a question Billy Joel felt his daughter Alexa would ask someday, and at the height of the most decidedly chilly U.S.–Russian relations...
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Transatlantic: Kaleidoscope--Limited Edition
PerformanceSound If you break down the elements of the word kaleidoscope, you find it’s derived from three Ancient Greek roots: kalos, which means beauty; eidos, the shape of what’s being seen; and...
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Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II & Led Zeppelin III—Super Deluxe Boxed...
PerformanceSound“The best way to listen to Led Zeppelin is off of the analog tapes, but unfortunately, I can’t invite you around to listen to them.” That’s Jimmy Page, answering my question about...
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Pink Floyd: The Division Bell--20th Anniversary Edition Box Set
PerformanceSound Which one’s Pink? It’s a debate that’s polarized fans ever since Pink Floyd principals David Gilmour and Roger Waters split up their creative partnership in the mid-’80s. Waters went...
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Get Back to Mono
“Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.” John Lennon was referencing a theme from the Tibetan Book of the Dead by way of Timothy Leary’s book The Psychedelic Experience, but there really was...
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Peter Gabriel: Back to Front – Live in London, Deluxe Limited Edition...
PerformanceSound Peter Gabriel has made a career out of being a restless chameleon, a man perpetually interested in pushing sonic boundaries rather than remaining in stasis. The roles he’s chosen to...
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Simon & Garfunkel The Complete Albums Collection
PerformanceSound“Exciting new sounds in the folk tradition.” So went the saying on the sleeve of the 1964 debut album by Simon & Garfunkel, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. And how telling that seemingly...
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
Ahhh, reggae. What is also known as Jamaican dance music has become nothing less than an international phenomenon, thanks in no small part to the pioneering sounds of Bob Marley, who would have been 70...
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The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers—Super Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound The Rolling Stones are at it again. The world’s greatest band has rolled out the big guns for its 15-date North American stadium run that’s been dubbed the ZIP CODE Tour, a 19-song...
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Led Zeppelin: Presence, In Through the Out Door & Coda—Super Deluxe...
And as we wind on down the road, we have now officially arrived at the home stretch of Led Zeppelin mastermind Jimmy Page’s master plan of reissuing all nine of the mighty Zep’s studio offerings in...
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Rush: Fly by Night, A Farewell to Kings & Signals — High Fidelity Pure...
PerformanceSound“Be cool or be cast out.” So goes one of the pivotal lines in “Subdivisions,” the indelible lead track from Rush’s transitional 1982 album Signals, and it’s also a statement that aptly...
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David Bowie: Five Years — 1969-1973
Also see “RIP: David Bowie”PerformanceSound“Five years—that’s all we’ve got.” That ominous prognostication, put forth by David Bowie ostensibly about an Earth heading toward imminent destruction in the...
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The Beatles: 1+ Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound How do you improve upon perfection? That is the central question at the very core of the 1+ collection—emphasis very much on the plus—the latest must-have Deluxe Edition to emerge from...
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