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New Mortal Kombat Movie Coming Soon

It's been years since the films Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation hit theatres, but now a new Mortal Kombat film is on the way.  read more

Early Live Bob Dylan Album Coming in April

American Songwriter reports that one of the last live recordings before Bob Dylan became a major star, Bob Dylan In Concert – Brandeis University 1963 will be released April 12 via Columbia/Legacy....  read more

Big Audio Dynamite: This Is Big Audio Dynamite: Legacy Edition

Let bygones be bygones When Mick Jones was kicked out of The Clash in the early ‘80s, he formed Big Audio Dynamite, a group that melded Jones’ pop sensibilities with his earlier band’s punk ethos. This new edition of their 1985 debut, This Is Big Audio Dynamite, comes as a two-disc set featuring several remixed tracks, including “E=Mc2” and their first single “The Bottom Line.” On the first disc, the songs appear in their original form, showcasing Jones’ catchy hooks, experimental spoken-word phrasing and music/women/drugs lyricism. It’s iconic ’80s fare, as frothy and over-the-top as teased bangs and acid-washed...  read more

The Stooges: Raw Power

Running raw At this point, it’s almost cliché to heap plaudits upon The Stooges’ 1973 album Raw Power, but its recent re-release in the form of a new two-disc Legacy Edition and a three-disc Deluxe Edition gives us even more reasons to keep doing just that. Both packages feature a live recording of the band’s 1973 Atlanta performance called “Georgia Peaches,” which (aside from showcasing Iggy Pop’s bellicose stage presence and his desire to stick things into other people’s asses) boasts superb piano and bass presence. It also demonstrates the band’s great contradiction—how it sounded great even at the height...  read more

Jimi Hendrix: Valleys of Neptune

Way past experienced It’s been nearly four decades since Jimi Hendrix laid down his Stratocaster forever, and two since the release of his first posthumous LP Radio One. Enter Valleys of Neptune, a grimy, blues-slicked collection of previously unreleased tracks and deep cuts plucked from the Experience Hendrix Group’s studio vaults....  read more

Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection

Seventy-one disc box set gives new meaning to the word “comprehensive” At the end of 1967’s Miles Smiles, the second great album from Miles Davis’ second great quintet, the trumpeter’s gravelly voice emerges from “Gingerbread Boy” like HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey: “Teo, play that,” he hisses to producer/saxophonist Teo Macero in a slight singsong. “Teo, Teo, Teo, Teo—play that.” Macero had produced Davis’ earlier classics, including 1959’s Kind of Blue, but by the late ’60s the trumpet giant and his new quintet—saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams—were entering a whole...  read more

"Weird Al" Yankovic: The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic

Would it be apropos to write a parody review of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s new greatest-hits compilation? No...  read more

Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

When you consider the whole package (words, melody, chord structure), Bob Dylan may very well be our greatest songwriter, but...  read more

The Stone Roses: The Stones Roses (Legacy Edition)

Mentioned in the same breath as The Beatles’...  read more

Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

The jazz record everyone should own becomes the box set everyone should own Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is an essential disc for music lovers of all genres. Yet unlike most masterpieces, it doesn’t announce its greatness loudly. Instead, the music draws you in with seductively gentle restraint. It’s a recording with a pristine elegance that has never been matched, not even by Davis himself, who made several recordings that rank among jazz’s best. One listen to the distinctive sound of opening track “So What” and it should be clear why this is the best-selling jazz disc of all time....  read more