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150 items by Anthony DeCurtis
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Midnight Souvenirs | ALBUM REVIEW
"Love kills time, and time kills love," Peter Wolf sings on Midnight Souvenirs, but this delightful new album makes one thing clear: Nothing can kill Wolf's charm, musicality and youthfulness. His first release in eight ...
April 6, 2010 12:15 AM ET -
Steven Van Zandt's E Street Memories | ARTICLE
"I'm so reluctant for this tour to end," says Steven Van Zandt, checking in during a break in Bruce Springsteen and the E...
October 1, 2009 6:05 PM ET -
The Beatles: Stereo Box Set | ALBUM REVIEW
As you probably know by now, the remastering of the Beatles catalog was carried out with the caution of translating the Dead Sea Scrolls. Happily, the results justify the obsessive care. These 14 stereo remasters — from...
September 8, 2009 12:00 AM ET -
Book Review: The Untold Stories Of John Lennon's Epic Life | ARTICLE
According to Philip Norman's new biography, John Lennon: The Life, the teenage Lennon occasionally napped with his mother, Julia, and the accidental touch of her breast one time triggered longings in him to have sex with her...
October 22, 2008 2:43 PM ET -
Covers | ALBUM REVIEW
On hits like "Handy Man," "Up on the Roof" and "How Sweet It Is (to be Loved by You)," James Taylor's way of interpreting other songwriters' hits has been to turn them into James Taylor songs. His...
October 2, 2008 12:00 AM ET -
Keep It Simple | ALBUM REVIEW
At this point in his career, Van Morrison is less interested in surprises than in further exploring his long-standing obsessions: surviving the shocks of this life and rising gracefully toward the next one. Keep It Simple finds...
April 3, 2008 12:00 AM ET -
Live 1969 | ALBUM REVIEW
In the fall of 1969, Simon and Garfunkel launched their last tour for more than a dozen years — the duo would break up months later, shortly after the January 1970 debut of their biggest-selling album, Bridge...
April 3, 2008 12:00 AM ET -
Solo Acoustic Volume 2 | ALBUM REVIEW
Like 2005's Vol. 1, this reflective journey through Jackson Browne's catalog restores him to his coffeehouse roots — and to splendideffect. Once again, the performances are live — drawn fromconcerts around the world — and unadorned. Browne...
March 20, 2008 12:00 AM ET -
Remembering Ike Turner, Rock Pioneer and R&B Giant (1931-2007) | ARTICLE
Ike Turner an essential and largely undervalued figure in the history of both rhythm & blues and rock & roll, died in his home in San Marcos, California, earlier today. He was seventy-six years old. The cause...
December 12, 2007 8:15 PM ET -
One Man Band | ALBUM REVIEW
There's no shortage of James Taylor hits collections out there, but that doesn't make this new live CD-DVD, any less welcome. Taylor's fans regard each reframing of his career as an artistic snapshot of his life at...
November 15, 2007 12:00 AM ET -
Rock N Roll Jesus | ALBUM REVIEW
As its title suggests, this balls-to-the-wall album finds Kid Rock latching onto the verities of sex, drugs and rock & roll as a path to redemption — both his and the country's. He'd never admit it, but...
October 18, 2007 12:00 AM ET -
Summer of Love: New York | ARTICLE
In the early Sixties, Bob Dylan emerged from New York's folk scene and redefined rock & roll. But by 1967, Dylan had moved...
July 12, 2007 12:00 PM ET -
Continuum | ALBUM REVIEW
"Who did you think I was?" John Mayer asked on the opening track of Try!, the live album he released last year as one-third of the John Mayer Trio. He's answered the question eloquently on Continuum, a...
September 11, 2006 12:00 AM ET -
The 100 Best Covers: The Dylan Mask | ARTICLE
In 1978, Jonathan Cott conducted a legendary Rolling Stone interview with Bob Dylan. The occasion was the release of Renaldo and Clara,...
May 18, 2006 1:35 PM ET -
Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1952-1960 | ALBUM REVIEW
The title "genius" was formally bestowed on Ray Charles with the release of his 1959 album The Genius of Ray Charles. Though he was not yet thirty at that point, Charles had already helped invent what would...
October 20, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard | ALBUM REVIEW
The premise of Paul McCartney working with Nigel Godrich was clear from the start. McCartney wanted a producer who appreciated his storied past but at the same time believed that, at sixty-three, he has a vital future....
September 22, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
Deja Vu All Over Again | ALBUM REVIEW
Clocking in at a terse thirty-four minutes, Deja Vu All Over Again lives up to its title. It plays like a brisk spin through John Fogerty's personal jukebox, but just when you're settling in, it's over. Then...
September 22, 2004 12:00 AM ET -
Musicology | ALBUM REVIEW
Starting somewhere in the early Nineties, he seemed to disappear into his own bizarre obsessions — the muddled jazz-fusion spirituality of The Rainbow Children (2001) and the instrumental meanderings of N.E.W.S. (2003) being only the most recent...
April 5, 2004 12:00 AM ET -
Rocking My Life Away: Jack Emerson | ARTICLE
You can love and appreciate people during their lifetimes, but when they die -- particularly when they die unexpectedly -- the role that they played in your life and that of everyone around you becomes painfully clear. As does the...
November 26, 2003 12:00 AM ET -
Let It Be... Naked | ALBUM REVIEW
It's difficult to review Let It Be . . . Naked without drowning in the welter of vexed issues that shattered the Beatles. For a start, Naked is being hyped (in a musical nod to the "director's...
November 20, 2003 12:00 AM ET
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