Stevie Nicks Bella Donna Ultradisc One-Step 2xLP (Mobile Fidelity) 2025 was a good year for devotees of audiophile vinyl and Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab followers. The label reissued pristine pressings ...

After releasing a startlingly potent and career-redefining album, Wrecking Ball, helmed by producer Daniel Lanois in 1995, Emmylou Harris assembled a band she dubbed Spyboy to bring the songs to life ...

Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair 40th Anniversary 2xLP (Mercury/EMI/UMe) Tears for Fears emerged with a milestone ...

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MoFi’s Ultradisc One-Step process reduces the generational loss experienced in the traditional three-step plating process by ...

Smith sings atop Robert Wyatt’s mellow jazz-ballad piano on the tribute “I Believe,” serenely expressing the song’s inherent ...

Split Enz ENZyclopedia Volumes One and Two 3xLP box (Chrysalis/Mushroom) Can the music of Split Enz really be 50 years old? ENZyclopedia Volumes One and Two offers a crash course in the influential ...

Among the nine tracks on The Beginning of the Enz are the early formations of “Spellbound,” “Matinee Idyll (129),” and “Lovey ...

2025 was an especially cruel year for this media writer because I lost two personal friends, Harry Teinowitz and Tony ...

While the streets of Chicago teemed with revelers getting an early start on St. Patrick’s Day, a full house celebrated the holiday with Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve on Saturday night. Costello and ...

Flip Side owners Carl and Larry Rosenbaum had three choices they were considering at the beginning of their careers. “Hot dog stand, a dry cleaner, or a record store,” Larry confirms. “And fortunately ...

It’s never a good battle strategy to telegraph your punches, swears Lamb of God growler L. Randall Blythe. Several years ago, he foresaw a possible post-EMP, Road Warrior atavistic future when banks ...