Did someone put a fatwah on Cat Stevens’ career? Hal Horowitz examines the nadir of the folkie-turned-Muslim’s pop music career, taking an in-depth look at Stevens’ recently-reissued last three albums, Numbers, IZITSO, and Down To Earth.

Best Of: The Millennium Collection (Motown/Universal). Review by Hal Horowitz.

Landing On Water and Life (Geffen/Universal). Review by Hal Horowitz.

Sure, Marilyn Manson might think he’s shocking, but where would he be if Alice Ccooper hadn’t blazed the trail? With two amazing new reissues, the shock rock king is back in the spotlight in a big way. Hal Horowitz takes advantage of the opportunity to look back at the career of the man who’ll always be “Eighteen.”

“Play some Skynyrd!,” you yell? OK, we’ll oblige. Hal Horowitz takes a look back at the career of the Southern rock icons through the eyes of the new rarities collection, Lynyrd Skynyrd Collectybles.

Ignoring the slightly misleading album title – these tracks were culled from…

Out of print due to sticky label legalities for nine years, this relatively c…

Known almost as much for her well-publicized bouts with record labels who eit…

Some groups are best heard and not seen, and Boston’s Cars were one of them. …

As a one-man recording industry unto himself, Curtis Mayfield was the undispu…

You know ‘em, you love ‘em, now it’s time to buy ‘em all over again. Is it wo…

Like Aretha Franklin (arguably her only peer with as much natural ability in …

Essential as a historical document, yet of questionable entertainment value, …

Considered by many to be the best female British folk singer ever, Sandy Denn…

An unabashed musical tribute to Tex-Mex pioneer Doug Sahm – who died in 1999…

Not quite as groundbreaking as his work with the influential Fairport Convent…

Another entry into Universal’s seemingly endless series of repackaging their …

Teaser and the Firecat

Lord knows we don’t have a lot to thank the Eagles for. Single-handedly respo…

A textbook example of an artist whose early work defined him, Cat Stevens’ po…