What's your pleasure? February's new releases offer quite a variety: new studio releases, new live releases, new concert films, a new rock documentary. In other words, something for virtually every classic rock fan.

• Read about the best of February 2012 classic rock releases

Serious students (or just fans) of classic rock will be happy to learn that they may now bury themselves in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's Library and Archives collections of books, CDs, vinyl LPs, tapes, DVDs and other documentation of rock through the years.

Located at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland (home of the Rock Hall Museum) the 22,000+ square foot space is "a state of the art facility for what we do, with lots of storage space, new offices and plenty of room to grow," the facility's director, Andy Leach tells Billboard magazine.

Already cataloged are 3,500 print publications, 1,400 audio recordings and 270 videos. That's just the beginning, says Leach. "It's exciting that we're finally going to open, but in no way at all can we just kick back and say it's done. Most of the work we have to do is in front of us still -- a lot more cataloging, a lot more archival processing, a lot more collecting and digitization and those kinds of things."

What's left to catalog? Tens of thousands of audio and video recordings, and printed publications. Oh, and special collections of the work of 270 individual artists, songwriters and producers. Like all libraries, says Leach, "it's always going to be that way ... they're never finished."

A formal grand opening is planned for April 9, 2012 but as of now, the facility's first floor is open, with a reading room and multimedia work stations available to the public.

Road trip to Cleveland. Who's with me?

• Take a tour of the Rock Hall Library + Archives

Image courtesy Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives

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Last year was notable for the number and quality of new releases from classic rock artists. Just a few weeks into the new year, the outlook is already as good or better than 2011.

Over the next few weeks, new albums from Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Bonnie Raitt, Meat Loaf (and the list goes on) will help get you through the rest of winter. Here's a look at upcoming new releases to watch.

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It hasn't been all that long ago that I could count on my fingers the number of classic rock DVDs that came out in the course of a year. These days, though, there's a nearly constant stream of documentaries and concert films -- new and archival -- that make for some serious entertainment for classic rock fans.

This is a good thing, but even as enjoyable as it is to watch and write about them, the sheer volume of new video releases is such that, well, let's just say that I'm looking at you now over the tops of several stacks of DVDs that have been released just in the last few weeks.

Since you probably don't have any more time than I do, and since few if any of us have pockets deep enough to allow us to buy everything that's released, I've taken the liberty of culling out of the recent crop five new classic rock DVDs that are well worth your time and money.

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