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Gig review: RAMBLIN’ MAN FAIR – Day 3 – Mote Park, Maidstone, 30 July 2017
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Gig review: RAMBLIN’ MAN FAIR – Day 2 – Mote Park, Maidstone, 29 July 2017
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Gig review: RAMBLIN’ MAN FAIR – Day 1 – Mote Park, Maidstone, 28 July 2017
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Gig review: HUE AND CRY Album Launch – PRS Building, King’s Cross, London, 3 August 2017
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Gig review: STEELHOUSE FESTIVAL, Ebbw Vale, 30 July 2017 (Part Two)
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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS
News: BLACK SABBATH – Ten Year War Box Set (September 2017)
Heavy metal legends release a limited edition vinyl box set on 29 September via BMG. ‘The Ten Year War’ brings together their eight Ozzy-fronted albums, plus many other rarities, all housed within exclusive artwork created by renowned street artist, graphic … Continue reading
Album review: THOR – Beyond The Pain Barrier
Deadline/Cleopatra [Release date 04.08.17] Canadian born bodybuilder Jon Mikl Thor has been acting and singing since the mid 70s, fronting his eponymously named band and, on stage, combining his strength with steel bars and blowing up hot-water-bottles to give a great … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Beyond The Pain Barrier, interview, Jon Mikl Thor, metal, power metal, review, rock, Thor
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Album review: BOULEVARD – IV Luminescence
MelodicRock Records [Release date 22.09.17] Here’s a band I thought I’d never hear new music from and I am very glad to be proved wrong. Boulevard are a Canadian band who released two albums – 1988′s self-titled debut and 1990′s ‘Into … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Boulevard, Chicago, IV Luminescence, melodic, review, rock, Toto
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Album review: H.E.A.T – Into The Great Unknown
earMUSIC Release Date 22.09.17 Back in 2014, with their fourth album ‘Tearing Down the Walls’, and high energy live shows, H.E.A.T seemed on the verge of a major commercial breakthrough as standard bearers for a new breed of melodic rockers. … Continue reading
Album review: DEVILFIRE – Dark Manoeuvres
[Release date 07.10.07] What the fudge is in the water in Birmingham ? Could it really still be that yearning to escape working class, chained-to-the-factory drudgery? Seemingly Britain’s hard-rock Austin, Texas equivalent, Brum has produced some of the world’s finest … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dark Manoeuvres, Devilfire, hard rock, melodic, review, rock
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Album review: ELOY – The Vision, The Sword and The Pyre (Part 1)
Artist Station Records [Release date 25.08.17] German progressive rock band Eloy release their 18th studio album (19th if you include the Codename Wildgeese OST) and it’s the latest of a number of concept albums, this one about the legend of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Eloy, Frank Bornemann, prog, Progressive Rock, review, rock, The Sword and The Pyre (Part 1), The Vision
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Album review: THE YOUNG ‘UNS – Strangers
Hereteu Records [Release date 29.09.17] Teeside three piece the Young ‘Uns – Sean Cooney, David Eagle and Michael Hughes – have won the BBC Folk Awards Best Group in 2015 and 2016, along with picking up numerous plaudits from the … Continue reading
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Tagged acapella, album, BBC Folk Awards, folk, review, social history, Strangers, the Young 'Uns, vocal harmonies
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Quick plays: BRUCE COCKBURN, A BLUE FLAME, MORNING STAR
BRUCE COCKBURN Bone On Bone True North Records [Release date 15.09.17] Sounds like a name I ought to know, but maybe I’m thinking about ‘Rooster’. But, in reality, Canadian singer songwriter Bruce Cockburn sounds more like a cross between Mark … Continue reading
Album review: AUSTIN GOLD – Before Dark Clouds
Jigsaw [Release date 01.09.17] One of a growing new generation of blues rockers, five piece rock blues outfit Austin Gold, from Cambridgeshire, have been attracting plaudits and growing a fervent following playing festivals and smaller gigs all across the UK. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Austin Gold, Before Dark Clouds, blues rock, hard rock, review, rock
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Album review: CIARA SIDINE – Unbroken Line
[Release date 06.10.17] The follow up to Dublin-based singer songwriter Ciara Sidine’s excellent debut Shadow Road Shining (2011) has been a while coming. Unbroken Line follows the same pattern in featuring a self-written set, with the exception of a haunting … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Ciara Sidine, review, rock, roots, singer, songwriter, Unbroken Line
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Album review: JW-JONES – High Temperature
Solid Blues Records [Release date 02.06.17] Award winning Canadian blues-rock guitarist JW-Jones ditches most of the rock elements to ingratiate himself with the industry hotbed that is Nashville. ‘High Temperature’ showcases a handful of good songs that have one eye … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Canadian, country, Dick Cooper, funk, guitar, High Temperature, Jaida Dreyer, JW-Jones, Lonnie Mack, MOR, Nashville, review, soul
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Album review: JARROD DICKENSON – Ready The Horses
Decca [Release date 29.09.17] Recorded live to tape in the UK, ‘Ready The Horses’ is an album by the Nashville based, Texan singer songwriter Jarrod Dickenson who isn’t so much a man of contradictions, as a musician following his muse. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, blues, Claire Dickenson, country, Jarrod Dickenson, Paul Simon, Ready The Horses, review, singer, songwriter, soul, Tom Waits
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Album review: MACHINES DREAM – Black Science
Progressive Gears – [Release date: 16.05.17] With the notable and towering exception of Rush, Canada has not exactly been renowned for its contributors to the field of progressive rock. That, however, is very much on the change with bands such … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Science, Canada, Machines Dream, Progressive Rock, review
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Album review: BLACK SABBATH – The Ten Year War (Box Set)
BMG [Release date 29.09.17] Black Sabbath’s Ozzy-fronted albums have been given a monster remaster and the full luxury box set re-issue treatment. It is quite a piece of work. The package has even had a roadshow of launch events. The … Continue reading
Album review: KOTEBEL – Cosmology
Musea [Release date 06.07.17] Kotebel is a Venezualan/Spanish prog rock band with classical and fusion influences. ‘Cosmology’ derives its title from the study of the universe and it’s an exploratory, quasi- conceptual prog album, that draws on composer and keyboard … Continue reading
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Tagged Adriana Plaza Engelke, album, Camel, Carlos Franco Vivas, Carlos Plaza Vegas, Cesar Garcia Forero, Cosmology, fusion, Genesis, Jaime Pascual Summers, Jethro Tull, Jorge Luis Borges, keyboards, King Crimson, Kotebel, Omar Acosta, prog rock, review, Robert Fripp, symphonic rock
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Quick plays: THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND, QUIET RIOT, WORLD TRADE
THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND What If Rounder Records [Release date 18.08.17] Jerry Douglas has played and appeared on over 1,600 albums, from artists such as Ray Charles, Paul Simon and Eric Clapton, plus he has been a member of Alison … Continue reading
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Tagged albums, country, Frontiers, jazz, prog, Quick Play, Quiet Riot, reviews, rock, Rounder Records, the Jerry Douglas Band, Unruly Child, World Trade, Yes
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Album review: MOLLIE MARRIOTT – Truth Is A Wolf
Amadeus Music [Release date 03.11.17] Having spent most of her career as an in demand backing vocalist, Mollie Marriott’s debut album ‘Truth Is A Wolf’ is an exercise in finding her own style on a diverse set of songs. Her … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ben Curtis, Bonnie Hayes, Chantel McGregor, Gary Nicholson, Grham Kearns, Jan Kybert, Jeffesron Starship, Jim Stapley, Judie Tzuke, Mollie Marriott, Paul Weller, review, Sam Tanner, Steve Orchard, Truth Is A Wolf, vocal
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Album review: GWYN ASHTON – Solo Elektro
Pete Feenstra chats to Gwyn Ashton and plays tracks from ‘Solo Elektro’ on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio (repeated, Tuesday 15 August 21:00 GMT) More information Fab Tone Records [Release date 01.09.17] Having established himself worldwide as power-house rock-blues guitarist, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Australian rock, Black Sabbath, blues, fuzz, Gary Allen, guitar, Gwyn Ashton, Howlin Wolf, Jack White, Peter Green, Phil Spector, Psychedlelic rock, review, Solo Elektro, stoner rock, The Beatles, The Black Keys, The Pretty Things
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Album review: WALTER TROUT – We’re All In This Together
Provogue Records [Release date 01.09.17] ‘We’re All In This Together’ is a star studded album that celebrates Walter Trout’s blues related musical diversity. It also finds him at the peak of his creativity, as he comes up with new ways … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Charlie Mussellwhite, Chuck Leavell, Edgar Winter, Eric Corne, Eric Gales, funk, guitar, Jimmy Trapp, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Louis Walker, John Mayall, John Nemeth, Jon Trout, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Mike Zito, Randy Bachman, review, Robben Ford, rock, Sammy Avila, Sonny Landreth, The Allman Brothers, Walter Trout, Warren Haynes, We're All In This Together
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Quick plays: MARTIN SIMPSON, RIVERDOGS, HIRSH GARDNER
MARTIN SIMPSON Trails & Tribulations Topic Records [Release date 01.09.17] Trails & Tribulations’ is Martin Simpson’s twentieth album in a career spanning over 40 years. As he says the album “is a collection of songs about nature, about travels and … Continue reading
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Tagged albums, AOR, California, Def Leppard, Dio, Escape Music, folk, Frontiers, Hirsh Gardner, Martin Simpson, melodic rock, New England, Quick Play, reviews, Riverdogs, rock, songwriter, Vivian Campbell
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Album review: CHRIS HILLMAN – Bidin’ My Time
Rounder Records [Release date 22.09.17] ‘Bidin’ My Time’ marks the first solo album from one of the Byrds founding members Chris Hillman in over twelve years. On this album he has long time fan Tom Petty handling production, along with … Continue reading
