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Week of Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The big task for Alice in Chains on their 2009 comeback Black Gives Way to Blue was to prove they could carry on battered and bruised, missing Layne Staley but still in touch with their core. They had to demonstrate ...

On Wrote a Song for Everyone, John Fogerty walks through his back pages with a lot of help from his friends. He's enlisted all manner of musicians here, from classic rock peers like Bob Seger to new country superstars Brad ...

As the final reunion album from the Monkees -- and the first one featuring Mike Nesmith, who produced the record -- Justus isn't bad. Nesmith occasionally steers the group toward country-rock, but the record is largely comprised of nondescript pop/rock ...

First Judas Priest Concert released on Blu-Ray, featuring all of the band's biggest hits and rarely performed fan favorites. Judas Priest have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.

Track Listing: Introduction; Hideaway [Alternate Version]; Mean Town Blues; 44 Blues; You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now; It's My Life Baby; Manic Depression;

Track Listing: Heard It In a Love Song; This Ol' Cowboy; Long Hard Ride; Desert Skies; Searchin' for a Rainbow; Fire on the Mountain; 24 Hours At a Time; In My Own Way; Ramblin'; Askin' Too Much of You; Can't You See;

Singer/songwriter Beth Hart continues to explore her blues and soul roots via 11 cover versions of her favorite tracks on Seesaw, her second album with blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa. Following the same path as their first collaboration, the 2011 all-covers ...

Mississippi Bluesmen is a decent three-CD set highlighting 51 classics of the genre. Along with favorites by B.B. King, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, and Robert Johnson, are less than obvious inclusions by Eddie Boyd, Big Joe Williams, James ...

Track Listing: Price & Son Theme / The Most Beautiful Thing in the World; Take What You Got; Land of Lola; Charlie's Soliloquy; Step One; Sex Is In The Heel; History of Wrong Guys; I'm Not My Father's Son; Everybody ...

Combining the natural excitement and added vibrancy that a live performance provides, while recording in a studio environment with better acoustics, proves the best of both worlds for a recorded concert. The small invited audience to this label showcase consisted ...

Track Listing: All Hell Breaks Loose; Bound for Glory; Kingdom of the Lost; Bloodshot; Kissin' the Ground; Hey Judas; Hoodoo Voodoo; Valley of the Stones; Someday Salvation; Before the War; Blues Ain't So Bad;

Pianist and vocalist Eliane Elias pays tribute to legendary jazz trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker on her 2013 album I Thought About You. Featuring a selection of standards strongly associated with Baker, Elias mixes her native Brazilian bossa nova with swing, straight-ahead ...

MTV UNPLUGGED was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Performance. The unplugged trend of the 1990s could be quite revealing. If a band used amplification to mask its deficiencies, going acoustic could easily expose them. But when ...

When McCartney formed Wings back in 1971, it was intended to be a touring unit as much as a recording one. After spending the latter half of his time with the Beatles confined to the studio, McCartney was itching to ...

This film adaptation of GREASE is the zippy smash hit translation from the Broadway musical tribute to the fabulous 1950s. As a new school year begins, wholesome Australian exchange student Sandy (pop star Olivia Newton-John) and duck-tailed, leather-jacketed Danny (John ...

Aztec Camera's second album cuts back the ethereal atmosphere, revealing a stripped-down, vaguely R&B-influenced pop sense. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Personnel: Dave Ruffy (drums).

Track Listing: It'll Come To You; Drive South; Paper Thin; When You Hold Me Tight; Child of the Wild Blue Yonder; Straight Outta Time; Thing Called Love, A; Cross My Fingers; Feels like Rain; Have a Little Faith in Me; ...

Track Listing: Start It Over; Running Out of Time; Fire; Finding My Own Way; Gone; Out of Reach; New Day; Victory; Won't Slow Down; Suffering, The; New Blood; Diamonds; Unopened Door;

The 2011 winners of Britain's The X Factor TV show, four-piece girl group Little Mix deliver a slick, high-energy mix of dance-oriented pop music with their debut full-length album, 2012's DNA. Working with a bevy of big-name producer/songwriters including Steve ...

Track Listing: Wornin'; IllisiT; SaLvo; GlowbeL; Solvent; ParagUn; Survivalisto; Tsudanama; PlasiCage; Terminal;

Recorded on what would be Blue Cheer's final tour, the 2013 double-disc Rocks Europe -- previously released as a DVD in 2009 -- captures a concert the power trio gave on April 11, 2008. As it turned out, this was ...

Terius Nash's fourth solo album as the-Dream, following the sprawling 2011 "Internet album" 1977 -- which was credited to his birth name -- Love IV MMXII is led by the light-hearted "Roc" and the six-minute bedroom ballad "Kill the Lights," ...