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Rush: Hemispheres - 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound Rush was on a roll. After the celebrated Canadian trio had finally broken through the FM ether with 1976's dystopian statement piece 2112, they took the next evolutionary sonic turn...
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Remaster Class: Moody Blues: In Search of the Lost Chord
If the Moody Blues' most brazen, brave, and bold November 1967 mixture of conceptual rock and broad classical arrangements known as Days of Future Passed both saved their career and opened newer doors...
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Remaster Class: Queen: A Night at the Opera
Queen’s fourth studio effort, November 1975’s A Night at the Opera, was a masterstroke of mid-1970s multitrack recording. We dissect the ins and outs of the groundbreaking album's fair share of...
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Remaster Class: Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
Brain Salad Surgery, Emerson, Lake & Palmer's grand progressive opus of November 1973, was the one LP I knew I could play for my fraternal grandparents to show them rock music was as legitimate an...
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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: The Best of Everything - The Definitive...
PerformanceSound When Tom Petty unexpectedly passed away in October 2017 following a triumphant 40th anniversary tour with The Heartbreakers that had wrapped up barely a week earlier in his adopted...
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Bob Dylan: The Rolling Thunder Revue – The 1975 Live Recordings
PerformanceSound Bob Dylan has long seen the value in releasing extensive historical collections befitting his anointed artistic legacy. The latest entry in the Dylan archival canon is a massive 14-CD...
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The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus - Limited Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound The rock and roll circus was coming to town. In 1968, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, The Who's guitar wizard Pete Townshend, and Small Faces bassist Ronnie Lane had collectively...
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James Taylor: The Warner Bros. Albums -1970-1976
PerformanceSound And lo, there was a new breed of musician who had come to town, and they were duly christened singer/songwriters. In the wake of the burgeoning rock era's focus on volume-dealing power...
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Remaster Class: Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
When Genesis tendered their fifth album, Selling England by the Pound, in October 1973, they finally cemented the promise that had been on display in fits and spurts on their previous LPs. (See the...
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Abbey Road - Anniversary Edition (Super Deluxe Version)
PerformaceSound The Beatles were, for all intents and purposes, over. While new, original music would follow in May 1970 with the release of Let It Be, the balance of the recording sessions for what...
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Remaster Class: Jethro Tull: Aqualung
Jethro Tull made a bold move with their fourth album, March 1971's Aqualung, by amping up the intensity that informed the eclectic, prog-folk acoustic/electric hybrid the British band had firmly...
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Pink Floyd: The Later Years - 1987-2019
PerformaceSound Which one's Pink? It's a question the mighty members of Pink Floyd have answered more than once throughout their unmatched 50-plus-year career. No matter who's been at the helm—the...
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Remaster Class: King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
Few artists have oh-so-quantifiably defined their own uncopiable sound as definitively as King Crimson did with their October 1969 debut, the full-title-mouthful In the Court of the Crimson King: An...
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Prince 1999 - Super Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound Prince was determined. While he had made some inroads on both the sales charts and urban radio with his first four hot-button, mostly one-man-show albums of the late-'70s and...
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Remaster Class: Yes: Close to the Edge
Yes may have hit the roundabout motherlode with November 1971's Fragile, but their true zenith came with the following album, September 1972's Close to the Edge. Edge was the perfect intersection of...
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Best 5.1 Surround Sound Music Tracks
Okay, you got me. I freely admit before all my fellow music lovers and audiophiles alike that I had a very specific ulterior motive when I noted in a recent Remaster Class column that the title track...
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Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll
PictureSoundExtras It would be easy to characterize Chuck Berry, who passed away at age 90 in 2017, as one cantankerously acrimonious fellow, but after revisiting Taylor Hackford's astute 1987...
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10 Top Concert Blu-ray Discs
One thing our ongoing pandemic lockdown continues to remind many of us music lovers of on a daily basis is just how much we all miss attending live concert events.
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Def Leppard - London To Vegas
PictureSoundExtras Def Leppard got its start back in 1977 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England when Rick Savage, Tony Kenning and Pete Willis formed a band called Atomic Mass. Joe Elliott joined the...
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Star Wars: A New Hope - 40th Anniversary 3LP Collector's Edition
PerformanceSoundPackaging In a galaxy far, far away—well, to be more precise, it was actually in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh—I received a home-made C-60 compact cassette for my...
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