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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile)
Album review : THE LOVIN SPOONFUL – What A Day For A Daydream – The Complete Recordings 1965-69 (7CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date: 27.03.26] The Lovin Spoonful lineup – John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Joe Butler and Steve Boone – coalesced in New York’s folk music hub, Greenwich Village in 1964, honing their sound in the city’s nightclubs before they … Continue reading
Album review: TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND – Future Soul
Fantasy Records/ Swamp Family Music [Release date 20.03.26] When your debut album wins a Grammy, the sense of overachievement could be something hard to deal with. Fortunately, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks seemingly saw this as an indication that they … Continue reading
Album review: AEROSMITH (Deluxe expanded edition)
Universal Music Group [Release date 20.03.26] One of the USA’s rock bands, Aerosmith have released 15 studio albums, and sold 150 million records world-wide. And their blend of rock, blues, glam and pop has been very influential too. With roots … Continue reading
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Tagged 3-CD, Aerosmith, album, blues rock, delux, expanded, hard rock, Joe Perry, live, remix, review, Steven Tyler
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Album review : IGNESCENT – Eternal
Frontiers Music [Release date : 20.03.26] Judge a hot band by the company they keep. Ignescent have opened for Flyleaf, Skillet, Stryper and many other headline metal/hard rock acts in recent years. You could hear the influences of these bands … Continue reading
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Tagged Eternal, Fight In Me, Flyleaf, Frontiers Music, Ignescent, Jennifer Benson, Lambretta, metal, review, Skillet, Stryper
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Album review : WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT – Film and TV Music Of The Swinging Sixties (3 CDs)
Cherry Red [Release date 27.03.26] The label says : “An aural soundtrack for a generation who grew up listening, not only to great pop music, but a feast of TV and Film themes”. Indeed it is, for more than one … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bands, Danger Man, Fifties, James Bond, review, Swinging Sixties, The Avengers, The Saint
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Album review: LIGHTNING THREADS – Trinkets
https://www.lightningthreads.com/ [Release date 28.01.26/Streaming 01.05.26] The follow up to their 2023 debut album, ‘Off That Lonely Road’ the Threads new record, ‘Trinkets’ sees the band following much the same Blues rooted path but there’s a growing maturity, evident in both … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, Lightning Threads, review, soul, Trinkets
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Album review: LAUTENFEYN – Verdammt Und Vergessen
Magic Mile Music [Release date 06.03.26] Many years ago I was sent a CD to review (remember them?) by a German band called The Ordeal. The album was Descent To Hell and it was a metal masterpiece that still gets … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Fairytale, Lautenfeyn, Magic Mile Music, medieval, metal, Olli Opperman, review, rock, The Ordeal, Verdammt Und Vergessen
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Album review : BLODWYN PIG – The Recordings 1969-74 (3 CDs, Remastered and Expanded)
Cherry Red [Release date : 20.03.26] Blodwyn Pig had quite some pedigree. 1968: Founding member Mick Abrahams (guitar/vocals) came straight from Jethro Tull, after some conflicts with Ian Anderson over musical direction. Co-founder Jack Lancaster, sax and flute virtuoso, had … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Pyle, Blodwyn Pig, blues rock, Cherry Red, Jack Lancaster, jazz, Mick Abrahams, review, Ron Berg
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Album review: EMERALD MOON – The Sky’s The Limit / The Sky’s The Limit Tour 2025
Pete Feenstra chatted to Vanessa Di Mauro, singer with Emerald Moon, for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, illustrated with tracks from the two latest albums. First broadcast 15 March 2026. Inouie [Release date: 13.03.25] It’s temping to use phrases like … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Babe Ruth, beth Hart, Dana Fuchs, Deep Purple, Elkie Brooks, Emerald Moon, Fabrice Dutour, Francois C Delacoudre, Glenn Hughes, interview, Janis Joplin, Jenny Haan, Laurent Falso, Led Zeppelin, Michaal Benjelloun, Pat Benatar, review, Rush, The Faces, The Sky's The Limit, The Sky's the Limit Tour 2025, Thin Lizzy, Tina Turner, Vanessa Di Mauro
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Album review : VENUS 5 – The March Of The Venus 5
Frontiers Music [Release date: 20.03.26] What’s so attractive about Venus 5’s second album is its refusal to choose one discrete genre, sub-genre, whatever. It dances around the fringes of pop metal, heavy metal and symphonic metal, all laced with tight … Continue reading
Album review: CASEY MAUNDER – Smash Down Jericho
Website [Release date 20.03.26] Album number three from Casey Maunder and pleased to report that he carries on with his high standards of penning catchy, melodic hard rock. Of the ten songs on here, only ‘Paint’ has been released ahead … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Casey Maunder, hard rock, melodic rock, review, rock, Smash Down Jericho
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Album review: GARY MOORE – Reissues (2006-2014)
BMG [Release date 24.04.26] Blues and rock guitarist extraordinaire Gary Moore, who sadly died in 2011, left quite a legacy, whether the solo blues or rock or with other artists such as Thin Lizzy. BMG continue their reissue campaign with … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, BMG, Brian Downey, classic rock, Don Airey, Gary Moore, guitarist, Mark Feltham, reissue, review, Thin Lizzy
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Album review : ASIA – Live In England
Frontiers Music [Release date : 13.03.26] Set in the heart of the East Sussex countryside, at night the Trading Boundaries Café transforms into an award winning live music venue, hosting concerts from world class artists in an intimate setting. Not … Continue reading
Album review: SQUEEZE- Trixies
BMG Records [Release date 06.03.26] Something old, something new….. for Squeeze’s first studio album in over eight years since 2017’s ‘The Knowledge’ they have revisited what might in a parallel world have been their debut album. At the outset of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook, Owen Biddle, Squeeze, Trixies
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Album review: IAN GILLAN BAND – Down The Road: The Complete Ian Gillan Band Story
Edsel/Demon Music Group [Release date 27.03.26] After leaving Deep Purple in 1973, vocalist Ian Gillan dipped into a number of business ventures outside of music, before contributing to Roger Glover’s Butterfly Ball live show at the Royal Albert Hall, which … Continue reading
Album review: RAINBOW – Temple Of The King 1975/76
Edsel/Demon Music Group [Release date 27.03.26] Originally touted as Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow were formed by Deep Purple guitarist Blackmore. In late 1974, Blackmore had wanted to record a cover of Quatermass’ Black Sheep Of The Family, and did so as … Continue reading
Album review : THE LONG RYDERS – High Noon Hymns
Cherry Red [Release date: 13.03.26] The Long Ryders are a band who’ve been long associated with the advent of the Paisley Underground movement in the early eighties. Also Punk, Country Rock, Clarence White, Gene Clark, Walter Hill and The Byrds. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cherry Red, High Noon Hymns, Lamb Of God, Limp Bizkit, Long Ryders, Punk. Country Rock, REM, review, The Byrds
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Album review : GABE STILLMAN – What Happens Next?
Gulf Coast Records [Release date: 27.03.26] With an impressive CV which includes graduating from the Berklee School of Music, being a finalist at the 35th Annual International Blues Challenge and a Gibson Guitar Award winner, you might be surprised to discover … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Anson Funderburgh, Barry Goldberg, Connor Selby, Dean Martin, Gabe Stillman, Gerry Goffin, Glen Campbell, John Hartford, Kaz kazanoff, Ray Manzarek, review, The Allman Brothers, THE DOORS, Van Morrison, What Happens Next
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Album review: SONS OF TOWN HALL – Of Ghosts and God
Website [Release date: 06.03.26] Sons of Town Hall formed nearly a decade ago in a London pub and consist of singer-songwriters Ben Parker and David Berkeley. Sons of Town Hall have crafted an elaborate fictional world to frame the album, … Continue reading
Album review: ROBIN TROWER – Live!
Chrysalis [Release date: 03.04.26] Guitarist Robin Trower made himself as a guitarist, originally with Procol Harum, before forging a successful solo career. Most will (or should) know his classic second album, Bridge Of Sighs, which was remastered and expanded last … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, classic rock, guitarist, hard rock, live, Procul Harum, review, Robin Trower, rock
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Album review: NEAL MORSE BAND – L.I.F.T.
InsideOut Music [Release date: 27.02.26] The announcements that the Neal Morse Band’s fifth album, L.I.F.T.’ would be released in 2026 came as a pleasant surprise to many fans of NMB (as they now style themselves). That was the result of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dream Theater, L.I.F.T., Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Neal Morse Band, NMB, prog rock, progressive, review, rock, Spock's Beard
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Album review : BLACK SWAN – Paralyzed
Frontiers Music [Release date : 27.02.26] Four years after Black Swan’s second album, Generation Mind, comes Paralyzed, with the four horsemen, Robin McAuley, Reb Beach, Jeff Pilson and Matt Starr riding quickly into view. So called “supergroups”, of which this … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Swan, Frontiers Music, hard rock, Jeff Pilson, Matt Starr, Paralyzed, Reb Beach, review, Robin McAuley
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Album review: WILLE AND THE BANDITS – Salt Roots
Website [Release date 27.02.26] This latest album from Wille and the Bandits sees main man William ‘Wille’ Edwards and his band reaching new heights of epic story telling brilliance. Salt Roots is, in many ways, a homage to Cornwall, Edwards’ county … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, Cornish Surfer Blues Rock, review, rock, Salt Roots, Willie And The Bandits
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Album review : ANDY SMYTHE – Quiet Revolution
self release [Release date: 13.03.26] Andy Smythe’s ‘Quiet Revolution’ is a contemplative, but impassioned look at contemporary times. The album title appears to mirror the thoughts and songs of an introvert whose insightful lyrics appear to be a catalyst for … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Andy Smythe, folk, Nick Drake, Pete Atkin, pop, Quiet Revolution, review, rock, singer, songwriter, The Waterboys, Tim Buckley
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Album review : MOUNTAIN – Don’t Look Around – The Recordings 1969-74 (7 CD boxset)
Cherry Red/Esoteric [Release date : 27.02.26] CD1: Leslie West – Mountain (1969) CD2: Mountain Live At Woodstock (1969) CD3: Climbing (1970) 2 bonus tracks CD4: Nantucket Sleighride (1971) CD5: Flowers Of Evil (1971) 2 bonus tracks CD6: Twin Peaks (1974) … Continue reading
