Reissue Tuesday – Our October Report By Prof. Tim Craig It’s the first week of October and there are two big releases and a slew of notable reissues rolling into stores and streams this week. All releases are due
Don’t look now, but Hootie and the Blowfish’s Cracked Rear View will turn 25 soon. By Tim Craig Granted, by “soon,” I mean 2019, but I wanted to get ahead of the curve: this album needs a proper reissue. Oh,
Exile in Guyville turned 25 this month and continues to shine. By Tim Craig Released in 1993 — a year that bought us Nirvana’s In Utero, Uncle Tupelo’s Anodyne, and Enter the Wu-Tang (and everything in between … go ahead,
The Fabulous T-Birds show they are indeed Tuff Enuff By Tim Craig On April 27, The Fabulous Thunderbirds reissued Tuff Enuff, the band’s 1986 album that featured the Top 10 hit of the same name, as well as the follow-up
Unique RSD release for Reissue Tuesday By Tim Craig Well … did you get what you wanted for Record Store Day? While most of us were (should have been?) busy with Vinylthon, a few of us snuck out to stand
U2’s Pop is not dead. By Tim Craig U2 released a trio of platters Friday (April 13). It would easy to extol the virtues of Wide Awake in America (1985), with its definitive live version of “Bad,” or All That
Son Volt 2.0 receives a reissue By Tim Craig “Would you take me back North Carolina? / Would you take me back Arkansas?”Jay Farrar’s longing to be taken back to Southern roots rings true on “Methamphetamine,” the third track
By Tim Craig Rhino reissued Led Zeppelin’s How the West Was Won March 23 in a beautiful 4LP, 3CD, DVD Audio Super Deluxe package that includes a book of rare, previous unpublished photos and a high-quality print of the album
The Alarm release a duo of reissues via Twenty-First Century By Tim Craig Earnest. Whenever The Alarm comes through the speakers, that’s the word that comes to mind. At a time when U2 was turning heads with its religious imagery
By Tim Craig Listening to The Cocteau Twins is like listening to the ethereal, dream pop soundtrack of a movie produced by Tim Burton and directed by Guillermo Del Toro. It’s a fairy tale of rolling beats and soaring vocals
