Hooray! More Kinks! The fourth greatest group of the British Invasion has returned with 35-tracks on two CDs courtesy of the BBC archives. And like last year's BBC set featuring The Who, The Kin  

Since his retirement from performing in 1978, Matthew Mugg has been largely regarded as just another acid casualty. His name has appeared -- if it appeared at all -- with the likes of Sky Saxon,  

It's the policy of CityBeat's CD of the Week to search the globe for CDs worthy of your attention. We've rung up huge phone bills interviewing artists in London, Amsterdam, Paris and, uh, Georg  

If you are a fan of great Pop songwriting, particularly of songs with a healthy British Invasion influence, then I have an assignment for you. Head to your local independent record store -- or a  

Dean Reynolds of Milford, Ohio, grew up down the street from one of Cincinnati's legendary Rock clubs, the Ludlow Garage in Clifton. Reynolds was a frequent visitor to the club, which opened it  

Despite it startling mix of musical genres -- Reggae, Country, Pop, and vintage Soul -- Jeb Loy Nichols' new CD, Just What Time It Is, is one of the smoothest albums of the year. Fortunately, Ni  

One listen to singer/guitarist Big Bill Morganfield's new CD, Ramblin' Mind, and you're bound to be convinced that this is a man born to play the Blues. The album offers a variety of bluesy st  

There's a curious thing about the cover of Tim Easton's new CD, The Truth about Us. Right beneath the title and just to the right of the singer's name sits a row of three stars, as if the alb  

Reading the individual discographies of veteran singer/songwriters Iain Matthews and Elliott Murphy is like reading a Who's Who of Rock and Folk. Iain Matthews first came to prominence as a fo  

As Tina Turner once sang, "What's love got to do with it?" The answer here is, of course, "Nothing. It's purely physical." Although this week's CityBeat is the annual Love & Sex issue, I'