Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS

Album review: TONY MITCHELL – Beggars Gold

Posted on August 21, 2018 by jason

MelodicRock Records [Release date 14.09.18] Former Kiss Of The Gypsy vocalist Tony Mitchell returns with a new solo album, which has a few songs similar to the enjoyable Dirty White Boyz album released early last year (that band are planning … Continue reading →

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Album review: ALLY THE FIDDLE – Up

Posted on August 20, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

Gentle Art Of Music [Release date 14.09.18] Think of rock fiddle players and you can probably name the significant on one hand. Jerry Goodman? Darryl Way? Jean-Luc Ponty? Female rock fiddle players may be more of a challenge. Anna Phoebe? … Continue reading →

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Album review: MONSTER TRUCK – True Rockers

Posted on August 19, 2018 by petefeenstra

In this hour special first broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Pete Feenstra chats to Monster Truck guitarist Jeremy Widerman, playing tracks from the album ‘True Rockers’. Mascot Records [Release date 14.09.18] 18 months after their breakthrough album ‘Sittin’ … Continue reading →

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Album review: SAXON – Thunderbolt (Tour edition)

Posted on August 19, 2018 by jason

Silver Lining [Release date 07.09.18] To promote their forthcoming tour, Saxon’s latest opus gets a swift rerelease with a couple of bonus tracks. Formed in the late 70s, Saxon were front runners in the era’s New Wave of British Heavy … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: S.K.o.R., DUSTER BENNETT, SAGA

Posted on August 18, 2018 by jason

S.K.o.R. Tellus GMR Music Fronted by singer Emil Gammeltoft (who I’ve known since running the Nazareth fanclub in the 90′s), a vocalist who has recorded with Nerved and original Nazareth guitarist Manny Charlton, SKoR are a Swedish band who mix … Continue reading →

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Album review: ANGEL – The Casablanca Years

Posted on August 18, 2018 by jason

Caroline International [Release date 14.09.18] Formed in Washington DC in the mid 70s, Angel were allegedly discovered playing in a nightclub by bassist Gene Simmons, and subsequently signed Kiss’ then label Casablanca. A big lush sound and the band dressed … Continue reading →

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Album review: IAN GILLAN & THE JAVELINS

Posted on August 18, 2018 by jason

earMUSIC [Release date 31.08.18] 55 years on from the band’s formation, in March this year over the course of five days in a studio in Hamburg, Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan joined forces with his original band the Javelins, namely … Continue reading →

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Album review: MIKE VERNON & THE MIGHTY COMBO – Beyond The Blue Horizon

Posted on August 17, 2018 by petefeenstra

Manhaton Records [Release date 07.09.18] Producer, songwriter and vocalist Mike Vernon’s award winning career has encompassed the birth of British blues including Clapton, Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac etc. He also worked with the younger David Bowie, Focus and soul singer … Continue reading →

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Album review: MAD MAX – 35

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Davoski

Steamhammer/SPV [release date: 10.08.18] ‘35’ denotes the number of years that Mad Max have been together. Top marks for endurance. The melodic hard rockers formed in Munster, Germany have waited five years to follow-up 2013’s studio platter, ‘Interceptor’. Despite the … Continue reading →

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Album review: MARTIN BARRE – Roads Less Travelled

Posted on August 16, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

Garage Records [Release date 31.08.18] You always thought with Martin Barre’s post-Tull albums that he was searching for his own niche. ‘Away With Words’ in 2013 was a largely acoustic mish-mash of Tull covers and originals, ”Order of Play’ (2014) … Continue reading →

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Album review: FEDERAL CHARM – Passenger

Posted on August 15, 2018 by petefeenstra

Wire Sound Records [Release date 14.09.18] Federal Charm’s fourth album finds them with a significant line-up change featuring new singer Tom Guyer and drummer Josh Zahler. Lead guitarist Paul Bowe and solid bassist LD Morawski continue to be part of … Continue reading →

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Album review: BLUE OCTOBER – I Hope You’re Happy

Posted on August 14, 2018 by jason

Up/Down-Brando Records [Release date 17.08.18] Blue October return with their ninth album with expectations high after the excellent ‘Home’ album released in 2016. Vocalist and main songwriter Justin Furstenfeld is in a happy place in his personal life being a proud and … Continue reading →

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Album review: SUNSTORM- The Road to Hell

Posted on August 13, 2018 by andynathan

(Release Date 08.06.18) The Sunstorm studio projects, now over a decade old, can be viewed in two distinct phases. A vehicle for legendary singer Joe Lynn Turner, the first three records were a showcase for his more AOR side with … Continue reading →

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Album review: TAS CRU – Memphis Song

Posted on August 12, 2018 by petefeenstra

Subcat Records [Release date 01.06.18] Tas Cru is a blues artist and an observatory story teller for whom the combination of songcraft, feel and an underlying groove are sacrosanct. He also leaves plenty of room for quirky lyrics, ironic humour … Continue reading →

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Album review: DELTA LADIES – Hillbilly Trance Remastered And Expanded

Posted on August 9, 2018 by petefeenstra

Self release [Release date 01.08.18] The fact that the Delta Ladies have re-mastered and expanded their 2016 ‘Hillbilly Trance’ album suggests they think they are on to a good thing. And they are not wrong. They have expanded their folk … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE MAGPIE SALUTE – High Water 1

Posted on August 8, 2018 by jason

Mascot Label Group [Release date 10.08.18] Saluting the magpie is an old English country tradition meant to ward off unsavory events or bad tidings and is, by extension, a symbolic gesture of “coming in peace”. Delving into the background of … Continue reading →

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Album review: GERRY JABLONSKI AND THE ELECTRIC BAND – Live At The Blue Note

Posted on August 8, 2018 by petefeenstra

GJB Records [Release date 23.07.18] If ‘Live At The Blue Note’ evokes a Manhattan jazz club then the opening track ‘Sherry Dee’, from Gerry Jablonski And The Electric Band second live album in 2 years, quickly suggest otherwise. It’s a … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: BEN KUNDER, STONE THE CROWS (Best of)

Posted on August 8, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

BEN KUNDER Better Human Comino Music [Release date 28.08.18] Toronto singer songwriter’s Ben Kunder’s 2015 debut Golden might have been ‘critically acclaimed’ but that doesn’t appear to have translated to a great deal of public interest if the lack of … Continue reading →

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Album review: EARTH FOR SALE – Reset

Posted on August 8, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

Anderstein Music [Release date 25.05.18] I’ve seen it all now! A female fronted melodic Italian pop/rock band debut, with sci-fi imagery/artwork, and on a Japanese label – complete with obi strip bearing those immortal words ‘Made In Japan’. Now that’s … Continue reading →

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Album review: TURYA – Ocean

Posted on August 8, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

Turya Music [Release date 10.08.18] The debut album from Nicki Wells, aka Turya, is a thing of fragile, delicate beauty. Born and now settled in London, Turya takes her inspiration from Indian classical music, having grown from the age of … Continue reading →

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Album review: ANN WILSON – Immortal

Posted on August 8, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

BMG [Release date 14.09.18] One of the most gifted female rock singers of her generation, Immortal sees Heart’s Ann Wilson continue her dalliance with cover versions – a journey she began on her last solo outing Hope & Glory (2007). … Continue reading →

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Album review: JOSH TAERK – Beautiful Tragedy

Posted on August 7, 2018 by jason

Misty Creek Records [Release date 28.09.18] Josh Taerk returns with a new album his first since 2015′s ‘Here’s To Change’, although four of the songs on here were on last year’s ‘Stages’ EP. Teddy Morgan (Kevin Costner and Modern West, … Continue reading →

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Album review: TAYLOR’S UNIVERSE – Almost Perfected

Posted on August 5, 2018 by petefeenstra

Marvel Of Beauty Records [Release date 17.11.17] If it’s hard to retain a serious notion of progressive rock in a genre that arguably ran its short lived course in the early 70’s, then Robin C. Taylor takes the instrumental jazz-rock … Continue reading →

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News: Albums of the Month (April 2018 – June 2018)

Posted on August 2, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

Albums of the Month 2018 January 2018 – March 2018 July 2018 – September 2018 October 2018 – December 2018 THE SHARPEEZ Wild One (3MS Music) “…there isn’t a weak track on here, while their very best efforts such as … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: SULPHER, NIGHT DEMON, DANIEL TRIGGER

Posted on August 2, 2018 by jason

SULPHER No One Will Ever Know SPV/Oblivion [Release date 31.08.18] Suplher formed back in 2000 by vocalist/guitarist Rob Holliday (Marilyn Manson/The Prodigy) and drummer Steve Monti, who has worked with the likes of Gary Numan and the Jesus and the Mary … Continue reading →