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Bob Ezrin: Holding Artists To Their Own Best Work

by Lawrence Peryer
September 26, 2026

This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on famed record producer Bob Ezrin. Bob has worked with artists including Pink Floyd, Kiss, Deep Purple, and countless others, though he is best known for his nearly 60-year relationship with Alice Cooper. He's back working with The Jayhawks on their latest, Sanctuary Park, twenty-six years after their first project together. We talk about how the reunion started with an offhand remark from Gary Louris, both men ...

Album Review

Pink Floyd: Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th 1975

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by Doug Collette
May 22, 2026

One of the main selling points of the large(st) package available for the 50th Anniversary of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here (Columbia, 1975), Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975 became available as a stand-alone release on vinyl for Record Store Day April 2026 and was issued the following week in a double-CD package. The live recordings of this complete, roughly two-hour-and-a-quarter concert--the next to last of a five-night run at the California venue--were ...

Album Review

Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd At Pompeii MCMLXXII

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by Doug Collette
July 17, 2025

Listening to any Pink Floyd these days, now over fifty years since the release of Dark Side of the Moon (Capitol, 1972) compels all manner of 'What if?...' hypotheses. And hearing At Pompeii MCMLXII, work preserved for posterity during the gestation of the aforementioned breakthrough album, evokes particularly thought-provoking notions about the evolution of this quartet (or subsequent line-ups) if the musicians had retained the proclivity to improvise as in their earliest days as a band. It is ...

Album Review

Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon: 50th Anniversary Remaster (CD)

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by Doug Collette
November 26, 2023

Following by roughly seven months the release of a mammoth box set issued in recognition of the 50th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, the standalone (CD, vinyl and Blu-ray) remasters of the iconic group's eighth studio album are testament to the loyalty of the fanbase (not to mention the mercenary nature of staggered releases). And yet hearing the album with the benefit of hindsight, it's difficult to know what to make of ...

Extended Analysis

The Later Years: 1987-2019

by John Kelman
December 8, 2019

On January 10, 1994, Pink Floyd announced its upcoming North American tour in support of what would be its second studio album following the 1984 departure of bassist and band co-founder Roger Waters, The Division Bell (Columbia/EMI), a little more than two months before its release on March 28 of the same year. The first of two 196 foot-long, 67-foot high, 7,000 pound (without the helium) painted airships made a record-breaking, three-week trip from North Carolina to Los Angeles, with ...

Album Review

Pink Floyd: Obfusc/ation

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by Doug Collette
April 18, 2017

Lavishly designed and annotated packages on the order of Pink Floyd's The Early Years (Sony-Legacy, 2016) would be meaningless if the enclosures didn't so warrant the concepts. But the fact of the matter is content on the high order of Obfusc/ation 1972 demands treatment comparable to a precious books in an extensive library. The set, one of six now available separately after being originally released as part of a set, stands on its own terms as a piece of history ...

Multiple Reviews

Roger Waters: The Wall Live

by Nenad Georgievski
February 6, 2016

Roger Waters and Sean Evans Roger Waters the Wall Universal 2014 It is interesting how things from a distant past still resonate deeply with people even decades after they were first made and introduced. Pink Floyd's seminal album The Wall (EMI, 1979) was the pinnacle of this band's career, both artistically and commercially, arriving as a culmination after a decade of meteoric successes with one of the most successful recordings of ...