Die Hard Commentary

Suzi Quatro is a performer as famous for her image as her music; Quatro was rock & roll's prototypical Bad Girl, the woman in the leather jumpsuit with the enormous bass guitar (well, it looked enormous, given that Quatro is only five feet tall), looking sexy but ferocious as she banged out her glam rock hits in her '70s glory days. Quatro is a woman who titled one of her albums Your Mamma Won't Like Me for a reason. But there's more to Suzi Quatro than all that, and she seems determined to show off the full range of her 50-year career in music on the box set The Girl from Detroit City. Quatro is a rocker but she's also a showbiz lifer, and the music spread over these four discs is the work of someone up to do a little bit of everything, and along with Chapman/Chinn thunderboomers like "Can the Can," "49 Crash," and "Daytona Demon," you also get vintage garage rock (three numbers from Quatro's first band, the Pleasure Seekers, including the gloriously snotty "What a Way to Die"), easygoing pop numbers like "Stumblin' In" (her hit duet with Chris Norman of Smokie)…

2011’s Moments from Ephemeral City established Australian quintet Caligula’s Horse as one of the top up-and-coming progressive metal acts worldwide. As it - and follow-ups The Tide, The Thief & River’s End (2013) and Bloom (2015) - showcased, the band’s knack for mesmerizing rhythms and riffs, enchanting melodies and vocals, alluringly poetic lyricism, and elegant dynamic shifts (between light and dark personas) is virtually unmatched by any stylistic sibling. Fortunately, the group’s fourth studio outing, In Contact, ranks alongside them as another beautiful, commanding, and all-around impressive album…