Rolling+stones

Recorded in Virginia on Keith’s 38th birthday, the Hampton show was one of the first ever pay-per-view events on television. Now mixed by Bob Clearmountain, the energy in the band’s performance is palpable. The new sound mix by Bob Clearmountain is perfect and the restored video is gorgeous!…

A live document of the Brian Jones-era Rolling Stones sounds enticing, but the actual product is a letdown, owing to a mixture of factors, some beyond the producers' control and other very much their doing. The sound on the original LP was lousy – which was par for the course on most mid-'60s live rock albums – and the remasterings have only improved it marginally, and for that matter not all of it's live; a couple of old studio R&B covers were augmented by screaming fans that had obviously been overdubbed.

As the Rolling Stones' most ambitious album since Some Girls, Undercover is a weird, wild mix of hard rock, new wave pop, reggae, dub, and soul. Even with all the careening musical eclecticism, what distinguishes Undercover is its bleak, nihilistic attitude – it's teeming with sickness, with violence, kinky sex, and loathing dripping from almost every song…

It used to be said there were only two sure things in the world: death and taxes. Add a third–a live Rolling Stones album every three years. In what's essentially become a flourishing, if decidedly spotty subcatalog (the notable exception being the stellar Get Your Ya-Ya's Out, culled from the band's 1969 performance peak), 1982's Still Life is the band's fourth live collection and marks the beginning of a long stretch of laurel-resting…

The Rolling Stones' 1967 recordings are a matter of some controversy; many critics felt that they were compromising their raw, rootsy power with trendy emulations of the Beatles, Kinks, Dylan, and psychedelic music…

The idea behind Paint It Blue: Songs of the Rolling Stones is such a simple, appealing one that it's a wonder that the record wasn't made before 1997. The Stones never made any secret of their debt to the blues, so it makes sense that their songs would sound good when performed by blues and R&B artists…

Theatrically released in 2012, Crossfire Hurricane, directed by Brett Morgen, documents the career of the Rolling Stones in roughly chronological fashion, and includes rare historical footage as well as interviews and commentary, both historical and current, from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, and former Stones Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor, as well as rare interviews with Brian Jones, who was in many ways the heart of the original band. The DVD and Blu-ray editions include bonus and previously unreleased concert footage, an interview with the director, and the original theatrical trailer.