Led Zeppelin's second album was cut, appropriately enough, on the fly – it was written and recorded (in studios of varying quality) during multiple U.S./European tours in 1969. As a singer and lyricist, Robert Plant was growing by leaps and...

35 years ago this month, Blackfoot released their seventh album, an LP best known by fans as the first one by the band without guitarist Charlie Hargrett. Co-produced by Al Nalli and Eddy Offord, VERTICAL SMILES found the band shifting...