Paul McCartney Read our review of McCartney’s Wings Over America – Deluxe Addition. “Last Beatle alive!” shouted one security guard gleefully at a herd of Paul McCartney fans barreling toward the main stage (What Stage) for that legendary rocker’s impending headlining performance Friday night at the 12th annual Bonnaroo festival. Yeah … not quite. Ringo Starr [...]

ZZ Top La Futura (American) Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars Always a bunch of snarky dudes, the first ZZ Top album in nine years has about as much to do with the titular future as Dusty and Billy’s scraggly beards and their furry guitars. It may have taken Rick Rubin to shake the [...]

Various Artists Just Tell Me That You Want Me –A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac (Hear) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Given Fleetwood Mac’s winding history and stylistic diversity that runs from rootsy, psychedelic blues to West Coast dream rock and the sparkly yet occasionally dark and introspective Buckingham/Nicks era folk/pop, it’s no surprise that [...]

Randall Poster, the producer behind last year’s Buddy Holly tribute album Rave On, is back with another impressive cast of artists ranging from MGMT, Best Coast, The New Pornographers, Entrance Band, The Kills and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. His next target: Fleetwood Mac. The untitled album is set to be released on August 14 [...]

It’s possible to spend half an hour on the phone with a current hit-maker, and end the conversation feeling like he or she hasn’t said anything that would indicate there’s a human being on the other end of the line with a brain, a personality and a perspective. Chances are, the music made by such [...]