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John Coltrane, Miles Davis: Miles Davis: You’re Under Arrest (CBS)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 15 June 1985

THIS YEAR, Miles Davis is 59 years old. However, if it’s round numbers that appeal to you, it’s worth mentioning that 1985 marks the 40th ...

Band, The, Country Joe & The Fish, Cream, Donovan, Doors, The, Incredible String Band, The, Randy Newman, Phil Ochs: Albums from the Band, Cream, Country Joe & the Fish, Donovan, Randy Newman, the Incredible String Band, Phil Ochs, and the Doors

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, October 1968

HERE WE are, talking to ourselves again, still waiting for the new releases by the Rolling Stones, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Doors, the Byrds, ...

Rickie Lee Jones: The Devil You Know

Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, November 2012

LITTLE OVER A MINUTE into her funereal version of 'St James Infirmary', Rickie Lee Jones lets out a sudden cry of anguish. Such is the ...

Joan Baez, Canned Heat, Country Joe & The Fish, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Arlo Guthrie, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, John Sebastian, Sha Na Na, Sly & The Family Stone, Ten Years After: Various artists: Woodstock (Atlantic: 2663 001)

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 17 July 1970

Update, 2020. Woodstock. The name has many meanings. There's Woodstock the town where Bob Dylan and the Band lived once. But the main resonance is ...

Joe Cocker, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Jimi Hendrix, Sly & The Family Stone, Ten Years After, Who, The: Woodstock (Import Cotillion SD3-500)

Review by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 4 July 1970

BONUS TRACKS ON WOODSTOCK GIANT ...

Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball (Elektra/Asylum) ***

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 September 1995

ARE FANS of the Sweetheart of the Rodeo ready for EmmyloU2? ...

Miles Davis: A Tribute to Jack Johnson (CBS 70089; £2.19)

Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 11 September 1971

FOR WELL over two decades of music, trumpeter Miles Davis has remained as one of the few unchallenged innovators and to this day he still ...

Napalm Death: Fear, Emptiness, Despair (Earache/All Formats)

Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 21 May 1994

WHAT CAN you say about a band who defined the very genre of which they are a part? ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Texas Flood (Epic BFE 3S734)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 1983

ELECTRIC STORM ...

Ravi Shankar: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival (Columbia)

Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968

RAVI SHANKAR at the Monterey International Pop Festival is a stone groove! The whole audience, who sat under glaring sun for three whole days last ...

Be-Bop Deluxe: Be Bop Deluxe: Axe Victim

Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, 6 July 1974

IT'S GREAT to be right in there on the first still-to-be-perfected artistic utterance of A Truly Great Group To Be. That old warm self-congratulatory glow ...

Sonny Sharrock: Ask the Ages (Axiom/Island)

Review by Byron Coley, Spin, September 1991

GUITARIST SONNY Sharrock is best known (or at least most revered) for his work's skronk-fusionist qualities. His massively searing string-attack has been legendary in noise-fan ...

Robert Quine, Fred Maher: Robert Quine and Fred Maher: Basic (Editions EG)

Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 25 August 1984

NOT LONG ago, someone asked me if the 'EG' in EG Records stood for Egghead and I foolishly told them no. Now Egghead Records have ...

Taj Mahal: The Natch'l Blues (Direction 8-63397)

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 15 March 1969

AMERICAN MUSICIANS have always scored over their British musical cousins, in their ability to RELAX, and still show off their mastery of whatever medium they ...

Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream

Review by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 14 November 1993

THIS MAJOR-LABEL debut by the Smashing Pumpkins recently shot straight onto the Billboard chart at No. 10, partially justifying the industry hype about the Chicago ...

Love: False Start (Blue Thumb BTS8822)

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 4 February 1971

SURPRISE! THIS is a fine album. Particularly so for this depressing year in rock, because if you've wished that for once you could hear a ...

ZZ Top: Recycler

Review by Max Bell, Vox, November 1990

THE TEXAS TWISTERS RETURN with a vengeance for Recycler, pursuing their scorched earth policy on a record that's so hot it'll burn your eyeballs out. ...

Action, The, Byrds, The, Donovan, Lee Dorsey, Jimi Hendrix, Lovin' Spoonful, The, Paul McCartney, Move, The, Gene Pitney, Alan Price, Paul and Barry Ryan, Small Faces, The, Dusty Springfield: Beatle Blind Date: Paul McCartney reviews the new pop singles

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 25 February 1967

LEE DORSEY: 'Rain Rain Go Away' (Stateside) Lee Dorsey. It's in the same old vein and it'll be a hit. Sometimes I wonder if he ...

Rainbow: Long Live Rock'n'Roll

Review by Jon Young, Trouser Press, June 1978

MENTION GUITARIST Ritchie Blackmore around so-called "intelligent" rockers and you'll just get a bunch of barf noises in response. ...

Spirit: Spirit of '76

Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 14 August 1975

FROM ITS CONCEPTION to its sonics, Spirit of '76 is this year's eccentric's eccentric record, and Randy California (last heard from as "Kapt. Kopter" on ...