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Machine Head Debuts New Bassist on Bloodstone & Diamonds

Machine Head Debuts New Bassist on Bloodstone & Diamonds

Machine Head’s first album with new bassist Jared MacEachern (ex-Sanctity guitarist/singer) has been released. is the eighth studio album for the Bay Area-metal outfit. MacEachern replaced previous bassist Andy Duce in 2013. You can check out how he sounds, along with the rest of the band, via the album stream: Bloodstone & Diamonds is available on and as a digital...

Rush Releases “R40” Commemorative Live Video Set Featuring Rare Footage

Rush Releases “R40” Commemorative Live Video Set Featuring Rare Footage

If you love Rush and don’t own many on the legendary Canadian trio’s live performance videos, the could be up your alley. The deluxe collector’s set celebrates the 40th anniversary of Rush’s (bassist/singer Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer Neil Peart) recording career in a 6 Blu-ray or 10 DVD box set. It includes “Rush In Rio”, “R30”, “Snakes...

Flea Contributes Low End to Antemasque’s Debut Album

Flea Contributes Low End to Antemasque’s Debut Album

If you feel like you can never have too much Flea in your life, you need to get your hands on supergroup Antemasque’s . Antemasque, which is made up of former members of At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta (who Flea has also played with) recorded the album earlier this year and released it briefly online before pulling it...

Foo Fighters’ “Sonic Highways” Explores America in 8 Songs

Foo Fighters’ “Sonic Highways” Explores America in 8 Songs

The Foo Fighters’ project is more than a TV show — it’s a TV show about recording an album in eight cities across the United States, with lyrics penned by bandleader Dave Grohl after he conducts interviews with iconic musicians in each city. The show has already debuted. Now, the album has arrived. Also titled Sonic Highways, the album sees...

Pink Floyd Offers First Album with New Music in 20 Years with “The Endless River”

Pink Floyd Offers First Album with New Music in 20 Years with “The Endless River”

Pink Floyd has released its first new album featuring new music in 20 years, . The record is an outgrowth of work created during sessions for 1994’s The Division Bell. In the interim, keyboardist Richard Wright died in 2008. Then a couple of years ago, remaining members David Gilmour (guitar/bass) and Nick Mason (drums) decided to regroup and focus on...

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The Rolling Stones Open the Vault to Release 1981 Hampton Show

The Rolling Stones Open the Vault to Release 1981 Hampton Show

The Rolling Stones’ Tattoo You era is on full display with a new set of DVD, Blu-ray, CD and vinyl releases. All are part of the Stones’ From the Vault series, and the first release is . This December 1981 show, held on Keith Richards’ birthday, was one of the final shows in a U.S. fall/winter tour supporting Tattoo You....

Wings’ “Venus and Mars” and “At the Speed of Sound” Reissued in McCartney Archive Collection Editions

Wings’ “Venus and Mars” and “At the Speed of Sound” Reissued in McCartney Archive Collection Editions

As part of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, two more Wings albums are getting the deluxe box set treatment, with reissues featuring bonus audio and video and booklets with previously unreleased photos and new interviews with Paul McCartney. Wings was legendary singer/songwriter/bassist Paul McCartney’s band throughout the 1970s. The band racked up hits throughout the decade, and these mid-1970s albums,...

Bob Dylan and The Band’s Complete Basement Tapes Released

Bob Dylan and The Band’s Complete Basement Tapes Released

If you’re a fan of Bob Dylan and/or The Band, you always knew that they made far more music together than was released on 1975’s The Basement Tapes. Now, all that music, originally recorded in the summer of 1967 in the basement of the West Saugerties, New York – home known as “Big Pink” – is available on a 6-CD...

Restored Version of Classic Genesis Concert Film Released

Restored Version of Classic Genesis Concert Film Released

Genesis’ 1981 concert film, , is now available in standalone Blu-ray and DVD editions. While the film has been available to avid Genesis fans as part of the band’s extensive video collection, The Movie Box, and on VHS, this reissue features fully restored footage. Filmed on the Abacab tour, Three Sides Live documents Genesis — guitarist/bassist Mike Rutherford, keyboardist Tony...

Suzi Quatro Releases 4-disc Career Retrospective Box Set

Suzi Quatro Releases 4-disc Career Retrospective Box Set

Many Americans got their first look at singer/songwriter/bassist Suzi Quatro when she appeared on the hit TV show “Happy Days” several times between 1977 and 1979 as rock-and-roll singer Leather Tuscadero. But the Detroit native, while relatively unheralded in the U.S., was already a superstar in Europe, and had number 1 hits in the UK. She didn’t top the charts...

New Exhaustive 27-Disc Set Details the 1973/74 King Crimson Live Experience

New Exhaustive 27-Disc Set Details the 1973/74 King Crimson Live Experience

Everything one could possibly want from mid-1970s King Crimson has been compiled on the massive collection, . The exhaustive 27-disc set pretty much presents the material created by the 1973/74 version of King Crimson — particularly in its live shows — from almost every conceivable audio angle available on CD or DVD/Blu-Ray. The multi-CD and DVD set, which will only...

“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Re-Issued on Limited-Edition Colored Vinyl

“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Re-Issued on Limited-Edition Colored Vinyl

For those of you who just have to have your Joy Division on vinyl — colored vinyl, no less — here’s the for you: “Love Will Tear Us Apart/Leaders of Men.” The limited-edition single, pressed on grey vinyl, is taken from the 1980 Martin Hannett session. (Hannett, who was Joy Division’s producer throughout its career started out in music as...