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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile)
Album review: LIFESIGNS – Altitude
Lifesigns Music [Release date: 08.03.21] There are certain bands aren’t there that make you wonder “why aren’t this band massive?” and Lifesigns undoubtedly fall into this category. Essentially the band of keyboard wizard John Young, whose eclectic career has included … Continue reading
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Tagged Altitude, Dave Bainbridge, Iona, John Young, Lifesigns, Progressive Rock, review, Steeleye Span
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Album review: SONATA ARTICA – Acoustic Adventures: Volume One
Atomic Fire Records [Release date 21.01.22] After Sonata Artica toured in 2016 with an acoustic set and then again in 2019. From these two successful tours the idea was born to capture these versions on two acoustic albums, the second … Continue reading
Album review: MAGNUM – The Monster Roars
SPV/Steamhammer [Release date 14.01.22] 50 years on, and studio album number 22, there’s no keeping Magnum down – not even a pandemic. Whilst the band will be frustrated by the tour cancellations following the release of ‘The Serpent Rings’ they … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Bob Catley, Dennis Ward, Magnum, melodic rock, pomp rock, review, Rick Bernton, The Monster Roars, Tony Clarkin
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Album review: SARAH PERROTTA – Blue To Gold
7D Media/Third Star Records [Release date 15.10.21] Sarah Perrotta released her debut album – ‘Drink The Sky’ (2000) – with the band Outland Dreamer when 19 and it received rave reviews. Since that time she has worked with Garth Hudson … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blue To Gold, classic rock, Jerry Marotta, review, Sarah Perrotta, singer, songwriter
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Album review: STARLITE CAMPBELL BAND – The Language Of Curiosity
Pete Feenstra chatted to Suzi Starlite and Simon Campbell for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast on 12 December 2021. Supertone [Release date 29.09.21] The Starlite Campbell Band’s second album ‘The Language of Curiosity’ is a cross genre, conceptual … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alkatraz, blues, Dave Davies, Elvis Costello, Free, funk, Gabriel Del Vecchio, George Harrison, grunge, interview, Johnny Henderson, Man, Neil Young, Paul Kossoff, Phil Ryan, Ray Manzarek, review, rock, Simon Campbell, Starlite Campbell Band, Steve Gibson, Steve Hillage, Sue Foley, Suzi Starlite, The Allman Brothers, The Byrds, The Faces, The Kinks, The Language of Curiosity, The Searchers, vocals
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Album review: PERFECT PLAN- Live at Sharpener’s House
Frontiers Records (Release Date 10.12.21) Among the finest of this golden generation of Scandinavian acts, Perfect Plan‘s second album ‘Time for a Miracle’ was voted GRTR’s melodic rock album of 2020. That year also saw them play a ‘live in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Kent Hilli, live album, melodic rock, Perfect Plan
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Quick plays: BLACKLITE DISTRICT, NORTHTALE
BLACKLITE DISTRICT – 1990 AK19 Entertainment, LLC [Release date 31.12.21] Kyle Pfeiffer is better known by the name Blacklite District and has been releasing music since 2011. The album title gives a little clue to the sounds contained within, as the … Continue reading
Album review: L.A. GUNS – Checkered Past
Frontiers [Release date 12.11.21] When vocalist Phil Lewis and guitarist Tracii Guns buried the hatchet and started working together again, they breathed new life into L.A Guns and, whilst retaining the sleaze and swagger of their 80’s and early 90’s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chequred Past, classic rocl, Frontiers, hard rock, LA Guns, Phil Lewis, review, sleaze rock, Tracii Gun
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Album review: AT THE MOVIES – The Soundtrack of Your Life Vol. 1 & 2
Atomic Fire Records [Release date 07.01.22] Pretty Maids Chris Laney has been watching lots of movies during the pandemic and he noticed how great the soundtracks often were. So, At The Movies was born when he enlisted drummer Allan Sørensen … Continue reading
Album review : ZELBO – In My Dreams
Frontiers [Release date 10.12.21] Melodic Rock/AOR band, Zelbo is named for keyboard player and founding member, Dag Selboskar. This relatively unknown Norwegian musician in fact has quite a pedigree. He debuted with the legendary Da Vinci. His DV bandmate, Bjorn … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Bjorn Boge, Da Vinci, Dag Selboskar, Frontiers Records, In My Dreams, Ken Ingwersen, melodic rock, review, soft rock, Street Legal
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Album review: BITE THE BULLET – End of the Line
Escape Music [Release date 22.01.22] Bite the Bullet trace their origins back to 1986 and still feature the original duo of Mick Benton (Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards) and Graham Cowling (Drums). They released a strong comeback album, ‘Black and White’, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Bite The Bullet, End Of The Line, Escape Music, FM, hard rock, melodic rock, Mr Mister, review
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Album review: HAWKWIND – Dust Of Time
Atomhenge [Release date 10.12.21] Synonymous with Space Rock and the surprise hit single Silver Machine, Hawkwind are one of the UK’s most revered and hard working rock bands. Formed in the late 60s, they mixed blues rock, progressive and space … Continue reading
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Album review: MINISTRY – Bad Blood, The Mayan Albums, 2002-2005 (4 CDs)
Cherry Red [release date: 17.12.21] There are Industrial Metal bands and there is Ministry. After the breakthrough in 1983, Al Jourgensen’s minimalist metal-in-extremis became the benchmark for the genre pretty rapidly. You could argue that this 4 CD snapshot, originally … Continue reading
Album review: ORLEANS – New Star Shining
Sunset Blvd Records [Release date 22.10.21] The 2021 Christmas offering from Orleans is something of a welcome surprise. The band have existed in some shape or form since their glory days in the late 1970s on the Asylum label, although … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Christmas, classic rock, festive, melodic rock, New Star Shining, Orleans, Xmas
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Quick plays: TAYLOR YOUNG BAND, AUTUMN’S CHILD
TAYLOR YOUNG BAND Mercury Transit Handrawn Records [Release date 08.10.21] Taylor Young drummed for the likes of The O’s, Young Heart Attack and Polyphonic Spree. Now he takes on the role of band leader and is joined by guitarist, vocalist … Continue reading
Album review: CHRIS FARLOWE & THE THUNDERBIRDS – Stormy Monday & The Eagles Fly On Friday
Repertoire [Release date 28.1.22] This 3CD set brings together more than 50 newly remastered tracks, recorded by the R&B/soul powerhouse Chris Farlowe between 1962 and 1969. It’s an eclectic mix of studio, radio session and live tracks, and a definitive … Continue reading
News: Albums of the Month (October 2021 – December 2021)
DEEP PURPLE Turning To Crime (earMUSIC) While the production is big, solid and bright, there’s also a live-in-the-studio feel, like it was recorded quickly and spontaneously. Listen with open ears and the album shows the band on great form, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Afterlight, albums, blues rock, Burntfield, classic rock, December 2021, Deep Purple, Eclipse, Leverage, melodic rock, November 2021, October 2021, Progressive Rock, review, singer, songwriter, Thea Gilmore, Thorbjorn Risager
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Album review: THE MURDER OF MY SWEET – A Gentleman’s Legacy
Frontiers [Release date: 10.12.21] The Murder Of My Sweet’s latest release, A Gentleman’s Legacy, is a concept album, with a plot worthy of some of the better psychological thriller writers we may have encountered over the years. The band is … Continue reading
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Tagged Abba, album, concept album, Dan Brown, Daniel Flores, Frontiers, Genesis, MURDER OF MY SWEET, Phil Collins, progrock, review
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Album review: CAP OUTRUN – High On Deception
Frontiers [release date 10.12.21] Swedish rock band, Cap Outrun’s debut album integrates Progrock with Melodic Rock. A bold mix of nostalgia and modernism. One of the prime reasons for Progrock’s popularity is the music’s illusion of improvisation. You’re not quite … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chandler Mogen, Denis DeYoung, Lou Gramm, melodic rock, progrock, review, Steely Dan, Toto, Von Hertzen Brothers
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Album review: DAVID CROSS & ANDREW KEELING – October Is Marigold
Noisy Records [Release date 03.12.21] David Cross releases fine instrumental music via his own Noisy Records imprint. Cross was with King Crimson in the 1970s whilst Keeling has scored new versions of the band’s repertoire. You’d expect that their music … Continue reading
Album review : STAHLMANN – Quarz
AFM Records [release date: 10.12.21] 7th album from German band, Stahlmann. When Rammstein released their first album, in 1995, the German music press coined a new phrase, Neue Deutsch Harte. NDH became a cutting edge calling card for other bands … Continue reading
Album review: MERCURY X – Imprisoned
Frontiers [release date 10.12.21] In straddling the border between Progmetal and Symphonic Rock, Swedish band, Mercury X have staked out a fertile chunk of territory. This is their debut album (excluding two independent releases). It remains to be seen if … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Frontiers, Marillion. Pink Floyd, Mercury X, prog metal, review, Sweden, symphonic rock, The Flower Kings
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Album review: JAMES WHITE & THE WILD FIRE – Live at Saffron Hall
Facebook [Release date 19.11.21] James White & The Wild Fire formed in 2020 and musically are a blend of country, bluegrass, indie and Americana, hailing from Saffron Walden, Essex. The group consists of James White (vocals and guitar), Brooke Bond … Continue reading
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Tagged album, bluegrass, country, folk, folk rock, James White & the Wild Fire, live album, Live at Saffron Hall, review
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Album review: DEEP PURPLE – Turning To Crime
earMusic [Release date 26.11.21] The rock legends’ 22nd studio album and it comes only a year after the critically acclaimed Whoosh (one of the band’s best albums in their 50+ years). Clearly at a loose end or two during the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, Covers, Deep Purple, Don Airey, hard rock, Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, review, Roger Glover, Steve Morse, Turning To Crime
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Album Review: AFTERLIGHT (Thea Gilmore) – Afterlight
Mighty Village Records [Release date: 01.10.21] What’s a woman to do when the life that you’ve led for over twenty years reveals itself over time to be a stifling, coercive relationship that’s dominated your life and musical career? The answer … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, Afterlight, album, review, singer, songwriter, Thea Gilmore
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