Given the quality of Ian Hunter‘s “Defiance” albums, his fans could only hope to hear songs off those performed on stage, yet the legendary singer hasn’t toured since 2019, and given his age, 86, it’s highly unlikely the veteran will ever go for a full-blown concert trek. That’s why his front-of-audience recordings from the past feel so alluring, and that’s why “All The Young Dudes – Live” which will be out on November 28th is worth paying attention to.
Randy Newman has provided a soundtrack to our lives for so long that it’s hard to believe 1983’s “Trouble In Paradise” was his only seventh longplay. Hailed by “Rolling Stone” as one of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s and placed on #67 in this list, the album – despite universal love for the “I Love L.A.” single and the presence of such prominent guests as Paul Simon and the members of TOTO – didn’t have a lot of chart action, yet it remains many fans’ favorite, and to have it reissued in expanded for feels great.
Nearing their 80th birthday, most artists slow down, most – but not former KALEIDOSCOPE member Peter Daltrey, whose recent run of records has never been less than expressive, 2023’s "The Leopard And The Lamb" and "The Rhymer In The Long-Tongued Room" from 2024 demonstrating an ever-increasing scope of the veteran’s reveries and work rate. And still, it’s surprising that November 28th will see the English musician’s next venture.
It’s good to be an Alice Cooper fan in 2025, as it should be for a period when the singer celebrates five decades since the start of his solo career. The veteran’s old band, whose name Vincent Furnier had appropriated, released a new album recently; he’s on a glorious tour at the moment; and now, there’s an archival release scheduled to hit the stores, on CD and vinyl, on November 29th, fifty years to the day after the “Welcome to My Nightmare” film premiered in cinemas.
Considered by many to be THE MONKEES‘ masterpiece, in terms of album conceptuality as opposed to single-oriented thinking, 1967’s “Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.” found the American foursome finally inhabiting their creative space, something the band started on the same year’s “Headquarters” the sessions for which were barely finished when another bout of work began. This work lasted the whopping ten months, and though the quartet’s fourth longplay featured a mere 13 numbers, the psychedelic sounds they harnessed justified such a long period of the songs’ gestation; and now the scope of what Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork were trying to achieve will get exposed in the record’s super deluxe edition.
