Not long after You're Gonna Get It, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' label, Shelter, was
sold to MCA Records. Petty struggled to free himself from the major label, eventually sending himself into bankruptcy. He settled with MCA and set to ...
Paul Westerberg's second solo album, Eventually, delivered a full three years after his debut, 14
Songs, illustrates that he has problems telling the difference between maturity and stodginess. Eventually follows the same pattern as 14 Songs, as he balances up-tempo, ...
As the title Gore suggests, the contents within are bloody and visceral. Yet considering the
cover art -- which shows a flamboyance of pretty pink flamingoes flying against a grey-blue sky -- thoughts of pure violence are subverted. This dichotomy ...
Green Day released their first hits collection in 2001, just prior to opening up a
wildly successful second act with 2004's American Idiot. Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band incorporates all the hits from that second act in an album that's ...
This two-disc set -- essentially the audio companion to the concert DVD that hit shelves
in '05 as part of the Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition -- was recorded at the zenith of the future of rock 'n' roll ...
The title of this record is appropriate in more ways than one -- it is,
in fact, one of the great party albums, and well it should be, comprised of some of the best work by one of the finest ...
A lo-fi effort cut in a California basement, I, Jonathan returns Richman to the full
band setting and manic diversity that recent conceptual efforts have forsaken. Sloppy and wild, the album is a blast from start to finish; among its ...
Ry Cooder is known as a virtuoso on almost every stringed instrument, and on Into
the Purple Valley, he demonstrates this ability on a wide variety of instruments. The main focus of the music here is on the era of ...