Filmed at a sold out Riviera Theatre in Chicago in March 2010, "Alive In The Windy City" is the first Stone Temple Pilots live concert to be authorized for video release. The band are in top form and the show both looks and sounds spectacular. The concert was held shortly before the release of their recent "Stone Temple Pilots" album and the tracklisting combines new songs interspersed with their classic hits. This is a great live concert by one of the most successful rock acts of the last twenty years.
Typically, artists dispense with introductions after their debut – after all, that is an album designed to introduce them to the world – but neo-soul singer Joss Stone defiantly titled her third album Introducing Joss Stone, thereby dismissing her first two relatively acclaimed albums with one smooth stroke. She now claims that those records were made under record-label pressure – neatly contradicting the party line that her debut, The Soul Sessions, turned into a retro-soul project after Joss implored her label to ditch the Christina Aguilera-styled urban-pop she was pursuing – but now as a young adult of 19, she's free to pursue her muse in her own fashion.
"From the mid sixties comes this lost gem of West Coast country and rock. They had only a handful of singles and this lone album to mark their place in music history. This has never been on disc until now. As you would expect the sound is country at its core, but makes room for some soulful rock and roll. This is truly a find and we are glad to offer it for all of you Steve Young collectors who’ve asked about it over the years." -Village Records