utopia Archive
24 Mar 2025
Review Roundup: Todd Rundgren
Todd may not be Godd, but he’s certainly a wizard and a true star. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Todd Rundgren onstage many times, interviewing and meeting him on […]
10 Jan 2022
Album Review: Kasim Sulton – Kasim 2021
Though his list of musical credits is long and impressive – work with Cherry Vanilla, Meat Loaf, Joan Jett, Blue Öyster Cult and many others – if you know the […]
12 Jun 2020
Album Review: Todd Rundgren’s Utopia – Benefit for Moogy Klingman
After the success of his double LPs Something/Anything? (1972) and Todd (1974) as well as the double-album in all but pressing A Wizard/A True Star (1973), Todd Rundgren decided to […]
12 Feb 2020
Shot in the Dark: Utopia’s ‘Adventures in Utopia’ at at 40
Utopia – or Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, as it was originally and would years later again be known – started out as one thing and became another. In its original form, […]
15 May 2019
Even More Hundred-worders for May 2019
I’m determined to keep my backlog of music-for-review to a manageable size. Making that happen means that once again it’s time for ten of my quickie reviews. So off we […]
30 Aug 2018
Utopia’s Adventures Continue (Part Four)
Continued from Part Three… Redux ’92: Live in Japan (1993) Six years after disbanding, Utopia surprised most onlookers by regrouping for a run of concerts in Japan. The shows were […]
29 Aug 2018
Utopia’s Adventures Continue (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two… Utopia (1982) Meanwhile, Rundgren, Wilcox and Powell had continued without Sulton, adding bassist Doug Howard as they began work on a new album for Network Records. […]
28 Aug 2018
Utopia’s Adventures Continue (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Ra (1977) The most durable Utopia lineup now in place, the band made a concerted effort toward internal democracy. Or at least as much of a […]
27 Aug 2018
Utopia’s Adventures Continue (Part One)
In 2018, one of the unlikeliest reunions in rock history became a reality. Todd Rundgren’s Utopia – or at least three-fourths of its 1980s lineup – came back together for […]
10 Oct 2016
Album Mini-review: Todd Rundgren — An Evening with Todd Rundgren
File next to: Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Joe Jackson Rundgren has always been the most restless, resourceful and unpredictable of artists. It was two decades ago that he warned his […]
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