Glorious Noise Lost Classics
Steve Wynn shakes off NYC and goes west.
By Todd Totale March 19, 2010
The most challenging post-VU offering made by a former member.
By Todd Totale February 4, 2010
Before Mazzy Star, there was Opal.
By Todd Totale January 4, 2010
Just before he became a Rolling Stone, Ronnie Wood was a party man with the coolest cats in rock and roll. His first solo album hits the highs and lows of 1974 with a star studded cast of extras.
By Derek Phillips December 30, 2009
Inspired by Totale's excellent write-up of Badfinger, Phil steps up with a look back at a staple of the country soul set.
By Derek Phillips December 11, 2009
The third (and best) album by the Beatles proteges.
By Todd Totale December 3, 2009
The story of four teenage boys coming of age in the 80s, dealing with issues of social alienation and feelings of worthlessness: the greatest concept album about teen angst ever recorded?
By Todd Totale October 14, 2009
The Joe Walsh power trio's second album has no right to be as great as it is. Or as overlooked.
By Todd Totale August 27, 2009
The near-perfect that marks the end of their "drums and wires" period, the culmination of the quirky guitar pop of their first three albums.
By Todd Totale June 5, 2009
After the Replacements went soft, the Magnolias were the verge of usurping the crown of messy teenage ambivalence from their older Minneapolis brethren.
By Todd Totale March 23, 2009
There is little on the album that sounds commercially accessible, and the fact that her record company gave her even more financial resources for her next album is unfathomable in today’s economic climate.
By Todd Totale February 12, 2009
The greatest line-up of blue-eyed soul musicians ever assembled mixing it up with one of rock's best guitarists.
By Todd Totale January 21, 2009
Before "Jive Talkin'," before Saturday Night Fever, before bellbottoms and disco medallions, the Bee Gees recorded an ambitious, timeless double album that nearly broke the brothers apart.
By Todd Totale December 10, 2008
Darker and more foreboding than what fans were expecting, Van Halen's fourth album contains the grittiest guitar tones of the their entire catalog.
By Todd Totale November 13, 2008
The album that inspired David Bowie to create Ziggy Stardust. After you've heard it, you'll wonder how you could have overlooked it for so long.
By Todd Totale October 27, 2008
Subdued, restrained, and expansive, Easter Everywhere shows the band mixing real emotion with the lysergic-fueled imagery.
By Todd Totale October 8, 2008
A look back at the 1988 album that launched Mark Hollis out of the New Wave ghetto and into something much deeper.
By Todd Totale September 15, 2008
