Todd Rundgren

Cherry Red's Esoteric imprint is going Back to the Bars with this new 3-CD box from Todd Rundgren.  That 1978 live album drew on the artist's concert tour of intimate venues in Cleveland, New York, and Los Angeles; this set greatly expands the L.A. material by presenting, on two discs, the complete final concert from his Roxy residency on May 23, 1978 (as simulcast to a then-record-breaking radio audience).  The third disc reissues the 2011 archival collection Another Side of the Roxy, compiling songs from earlier evenings.  (Rundgren and his band performed two shows a night for seven nights at the Sunset Strip hotspot.)