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In retrospect, it’s a bit shocking how fully formed the signature Aerosmith sound was on their self-titled 1973 debut — which may not be the same…
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After nearly getting off the ground with Get Your Wings, Aerosmith finally perfected their mix of Stonesy raunch and Zeppelin-esque riffing with…
Few albums have been so appropriately named as Aerosmith’s 1976 classic Rocks. Despite hard drug use escalating among bandmembers…
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Since Aerosmith had become one of America’s premier rock & roll concert attractions by 1978, it was only natural that an in-concert collection…
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The much-ballyhooed reunion of the original Aerosmith lineup had pretty much fallen flat on its face after 1985′s hit-and-miss…
Pump is the tenth album by American rock band Aerosmith, released in 1989. The album was remastered and reissued in 2001…
Get a Grip is the 11th studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released in April 1993 by Geffen Records.[1] Get a Grip was the band’s…
Aerosmith signed a multi-million-dollar contract with Columbia Records before they had completed their deal with Geffen, which…
Aerosmith signed with Columbia early in the ’90s, before their contract with Geffen expired, and, as part of the deal, they owed…
Give Aerosmith credit for not only realizing something was wrong after Nine Lives relatively flat-lined, but deciding to do something…
Aerosmith prove that a band can be inspired by the blues and play the blues without ever feeling like a blues band. Then again, the nature…
A year after the 2004 live DVD You Gotta Move, Aerosmith unleashes another live release with Rockin’ the Joint. This 11-track album was recorded…
Journey manages to pull off a nifty trick on 2011’s Eclipse: they fuse their prog rock beginnings with their arena rock heyday of the…
Apparently his time in Chickenfoot made Joe Satriani want to get back to where he once belonged, so he goes retro on 2010’s…
Christian metalcore outfit For Today’s third full-length offering finds the Iowa-based quintet in fine form, dutifully balancing technical artistry…
On Through the Night is the debut album by British Rock band Def Leppard, released in 1980. The album charted at #51 on The Billboard 200 and #15 on…
Pyromania is the third studio album by British rock band Def Leppard, released on 20 January 1983. It featured new guitarist Phil Collen and was produced by…
Given that Def Leppard sounded so fun and revitalized on their 2006 covers album Yeah!, it was easy to hope that they would try to channel that same kinetic…
Def Leppard always had a streak of glam running beneath their heavy rock — listen to “Armageddon It” or “Photograph” for proof — so it’s no surprise that…
