Joan Sebastían has released compilations before (in addition to his many albums), but none of
them have been as unique as 13 Celebrando el 13. While the great Mexican singer and songwriter has always been busy as a recording and ...
Within the first page of the liner notes to the first Third Eye Blind compilation,
2006's modestly titled A Collection, it's revealed that TEB's lead singer/songwriter, Stephan Jenkins, is a Berkeley lit grad who has drawn heavy inspiration from Lou ...
Given the quirkiness of Neil Young's recording career, with its frequent cancellations of releases and
last-minute rearrangements of material, it is a relief to report that this two-disc compilation is so conventional and so satisfying. A 35-track selection of the ...
Neil Young's second solo album, released only four months after his first, was nearly a
total rejection of that polished effort. Though a couple of songs, Round Round (It Won't Be Long) and The Losing End (When You're On), shared ...
Neil Young has long been perched atop rock's list of true perfectionists, a fact that
ensured he wouldn't release a standard best-of until he knew he could get everything just right. Well, thanks to sonic advances, he's finally agreed that ...
After 20 years, Neil Young finally decided to release the sequel to Harvest, his most
commercially successful album. Harvest Moon is in some ways a better album, without the orchestral bombast that stifled some of the songs on the first ...
Neil Young's most popular album, Harvest benefited from the delay in its release (it took
18 months to complete due to Young's back injury), which whetted his audience's appetite, the disintegration of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Young's three erstwhile ...
Dookie gave Green Day success, but it was never really clear whether they wanted it
in the first place. However, given the incessantly catchy songwriting of Billie Joe, the success made sense. Green Day were traditionalists without realizing it, learning ...