Here’s a release I never thought I’d see—a new Flash album in 2013, a mere 40 years after the band’s original lineup broke up in 1973. A bigger surprise is that the album is not a disappointment, as such reunions frequently are. On the contrary, this new Flash CD finds the reconstituted band in prime more »

Stuart Smith is riding high these days. The main driver behind the melodic rock band Heaven & Earth, the guitarist is enjoying the success of the band’s acclaimed new CD, Dig (see our review here)—the first album Heaven & Earth has made with its new, permanent band lineup. The British-born and now L.A.-based Smith has more »

Attention, rock fans who’ve been clamoring for the return of big, bold, bombastic melodic rock in the style of 1970s Bad Company and Deep Purple: Look no further. Heaven & Earth is the brainchild of guitarist Stuart Smith, who’s done two previous CDs under that name with a variety of guest musicians (including former Purple more »

David Chase may have left The Sopranos behind, but his debut as a feature film writer/director shows his heart is still in Jersey. That’s the setting for much of Not Fade Away, his autobiographical tale of a young rock and roll band that came and went in the 1960s. While it has nothing to do more »

This Blu-ray isn’t new—rather, it’s a concert filmed in 1999 that was previously released on DVD and is now making its high-def debut. But it’s a good one, that finds Peter Frampton at a career high point, long after his Frampton Comes Alive hoopla had faded, but still playing at peak level as he experienced more »

ATTENTION PROGRESSIVE ROCK FANS: Would you like to see the incredible, once-in-a-lifetime double bill of Swedish prog icons The Flower Kings, along with former Spock’s Beard frontman Neal Morse and his incredible band featuring legendary drummer Mike Portnoy? Of course you would! And we can make that happen! Thanks to our friends at The Keswick more »

You may not be familiar with the name Ricky Byrd, but odds are you’ve heard him play. Remember that killer guitar solo on the iconic Joan Jett & The Blackhearts track “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll”? That’s Ricky Byrd. He’s also played with legends like Who singer Roger Daltrey, Mott the Hoople singer Ian Hunter, more »

“And I’m still here, still rolling on, trying to get ‘I love you’ into every song” … those words, from a song off Justin Hayward’s 2013 solo release Spirits of the Western Sky, says a lot about the Moody Blues frontman’s solo work. He’s no longer writing about questions, or Tuesday afternoons, or days of more »

We all know film trailers can be deceiving. Case in point is the Tom Cruise vehicle Jack Reacher, which was marketed as an out-and-out action thriller. It’s not. There’s some fighting and shooting, to be sure, but Jack Reacher (out on Blu-ray on May 7) is for the most part a quiet, intelligent mystery film. more »

The photo of Todd Rundgren’s studio in the booklet for his new CD says it all; a lone workstation sits in the darkness, and this is the place where Rundgren creates his music now. The singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer/engineer made a string of amazing albums in decades past where he played real instruments—and EVERY instrument—but his last few more »