Two years after Janis Joplin’s death, Columbia Records assembled a double album of her legendary live performances. One LP featured the band she rose to fame with (Big Brother and the Holding Company) ...

Jam bands have released great studio music and great live tunes for years. These are three great live jam band albums for a road trip.

I love live albums. Whenever I tell this to people, they don’t really know what to think. As a concept, live albums seem to have been somewhat maligned as people became savvy to the fact that they ...

Confession: The "best albums of 2020" list I ran a few weeks ago was largely a sham. Truth is, if I were to name the albums I listened to the most over the past year, a majority of them would have ...

It just might be the case that the 1970s produced some of the best live albums around, and that doesn’t just concern their quality, whether music or recording is concerned, but also the quantity, as ...

One more album from the '70s made it into the top five: Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young & Crazy Horse (1979) was ranked at #4 ...

For the first time ever in the modern era, we’re dealing with a post-concert reality—at least for most countries and with the exception of goons like Smashmouth and The Chainsmokers. During this ...

“Got Live if You Want It,” the Rolling Stones promised in a 1966 album title. And oh, do we want it, in 2021, when the pandemic has canceled its fair share of shows. Fortunately, we still have access ...

The 1970s delivered a wave of live albums that transported listeners directly to the concert stage. In contrast to the studio perfectionism of the previous decade, these recordings embraced the raw, ...

Who doesn’t love a good live album? Quite a few top-notch concert records were recorded and/or released back in the 1990s. We’re particularly fond of the following four live albums. Let’s jump in! “I ...

We’re still hoping that Florida death metal legends Obituary will shed more light on their next album soon (their last came out in 2017), but meanwhile, they’ve got two new live albums: Slowly We Rot ...

The concert industry exploded in the 1970s, and the live album, a stopgap project once reserved for only the biggest artists, became a compulsory ritual and a pivotal moment for many artists. Live ...