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Album review: STEVE HARLEY & COCKNEY REBEL – Birmingham Live With Orchestra & Choir

Posted on September 16, 2013 by petefeenstra

Comeuppance   [Release Date: 14.10.13] The commercial potential of pop or rock music is largely determined by a time, a place and a context. This was never more so than with the ego posturing of Steve Harley (and Cockney Rebel), … Continue reading →

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Album review: DENNIS DeYOUNG – Desert Moon/Back To The World

Posted on September 16, 2013 by jason

BGO Records www.bgo-records.com Dennis DeYoung was the vocalist and keyboards player in Styx, a band he helped form and left under a cloud in 1999. These two solo albums are re-issued on one disc with sleeve notes from Neil Daniels, … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: KAYLEIGH LEITH, KIMMIE RHODES, BAND OF SISTERS, THE BEAUBOWBELLES

Posted on September 14, 2013 by GRTR! HQ
KAYLEIGH LEITH This Woman

KAYLEIGH LEITH  This Woman Looking for a Nashville ‘new country’ sound on her second album, young American singer songwriter Kayleigh Leith turned to one of Nashville’s top songwriters Rob Crosby (Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride). Her debut album Miles Away (2011) … Continue reading →

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Album review: AJENDA – Unrecognizable

Posted on September 14, 2013 by GRTR! HQ
Ajenda - Unrecognizable

[Release date 28.09.13] We all have our guilty [musical] pleasures.  Mine – apart from a general weakness for female vocalists (from Pat Benatar and Ann Wilson to Anne-Marie Helder and Eleanor McEvoy) is Pink.  Or at least the Pink who … Continue reading →

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Album review: GRACE SOLERO – Hundred Years Apart

Posted on September 14, 2013 by petefeenstra

Wohone Records [Release Date: 30.09.13] Startling Italian vocalist Grace Solero lends her name to an international band whose second album ‘Hundred Years Apart’ is full of full of passionate vocals, poetic lyrics, crashing chords and steely riffs. It’s a thinly … Continue reading →

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Album review: WOLFPAKK – Cry Wolf

Posted on September 14, 2013 by jason

AFM Records Wolfpakk are Michael Voss of Mad Max fame and Mark Sweeney of Swiss band Crystal Ball plus a host of guest stars. This follow up to 2011’s self-titled debut features the talents of Amanda Somerville, Ralf Scheepers (Primal … Continue reading →

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Interview: 10Q’s with STORMZONE

Posted on September 12, 2013 by jason

Guitarist Steve Moore takes us through the latest Stormzone album ‘Three Kings’, what the band have planned including Hard Rock Hell in December… 1. What are you currently up to? We’re ramping up to a really busy period towards the … Continue reading →

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Single & EP Review: ALL TO RUIN, DOOMED FROM DAY ONE, VALFADER

Posted on September 12, 2013 by david.wilson

ALL TO RUIN Parables Self release  [Release date 28.09.13] Hailing from Port Talbot in Wales this EP finds All To Ruins in feisty form. The guys play fast paced nu-metal and over the course of the 5 tracks there is … Continue reading →

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Single & EP Review: HAWK EYES, DIE NO MORE, KINDRED SHINS, BLACKWOLF

Posted on September 12, 2013 by david.wilson

HAWK EYES That’s What This Is In One Ear Industries [Release date – out now] Hawk Eyes hail from Leeds and are a band that are starting to build some real momentum at the moment having recently played both the … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE GRAVELTONES – Don’t Wait Down

Posted on September 11, 2013 by petefeenstra

Lagoon Dog Records [Release Date: 21.10.13] There’s a lot to be said for being in the right place at the right time and The Graveltones are knocking on the door at a time when their balls to wall bombast will … Continue reading →

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News: Get Ready to ROCK! Radio – September 2013 Highlights

Posted on September 11, 2013 by GRTR! HQ
Get Ready to ROCK! Radio

September 2013 Highlights More information at the dedicated website All times, GMT Saturday 14 September, 18:00 In Session for GRTR! HENRY PARKER & THE VELVET LOONS/DANI WILDE Recorded live in the UK More information Sunday 15 September 18:00 The Guitarists: … Continue reading →

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News: Get Ready to ROCK! Radio launches sessions series

Posted on September 10, 2013 by GRTR! HQ
Get Ready to ROCK! Radio

Get Ready to ROCK!’s dedicated radio station has launched a new series ‘In Session for GRTR!’ showcasing both new and established artists. The series was launched by UK-based blues rockers ALBANY DOWN and since then the specially recorded sessions have … Continue reading →

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EP review: FLORIDA ROOM – After The Autumn Hours

Posted on September 10, 2013 by GRTR! HQ
Florida Room - After The Autumn Hours

www.floridaroom.co.uk [Release date 09.09.13] There is something highly engaging about this EP from East London’s Florida Room.  Together in their present form for barely twelve months this is effectively a re-promotion of their debut EP. The music is infectious, melodic, … Continue reading →

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Album review: ARC ANGEL – Harlequins of Light

Posted on September 10, 2013 by jason

  Frontiers www.frontiers.it Arc Angel is Jeff Cannata and Jeff (and Arc Angel) go back a long way. Jeff (going then by the name of Christopher Hawke) was a founding member of Connecticut based progressive rock band Jasper Wrath who … Continue reading →

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DVD Review: ANATHEMA – Universal

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Yiannis

KScope [Release date 23.09.13] Success is a strange thing: the more you chase it, the more it eludes you and then, just as you are about to give up trying, lady luck gives you the most impassioned of embraces and … Continue reading →

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Album review: MOJO MAKERS – Wait Till The Morning

Posted on September 9, 2013 by petefeenstra

Hypertension Music   [Release Date: 16.09.13] Danish blues-rock outfit the Mojo Makers attempt to recycle 70’s blues-rock and give it contemporary twist. Their rough hewn and visceral approach to recording leaves plenty of room for moments of real spark and … Continue reading →

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Album review: JESSE DAMON – Temptation In The Garden Of Eve

Posted on September 9, 2013 by jason

AOR Heaven Jesse Damon is the guitarist/frontman with Silent Rage and this is his fifth solo album. He has renowned producer and melodic rocker Paul Sabu in the producer’s chair (Sabu also handles bass on the album) and Eden’s Curse … Continue reading →

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Album review: DAVID ROTHERAY – Answer Ballads

Posted on September 9, 2013 by jason

Navigator Records (released October 14th) Former Beautiful South guitarist David Rotheray has produced a star studded album based on a novel premise, that of a collection of songs where he writes an ‘answer ballad’ (or what happened next) to classic … Continue reading →

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Album review: JOSEPH ARTHUR – The Ballad of Boogie Christ

Posted on September 7, 2013 by jason

Real World Records Joseph Arthur has built up a loyal following of fans as well as plaudits from fellow musicians including Peter Gabriel. This two disc set is loosely based on a fictionalised character, Boogie Christ, who bears some resemblance … Continue reading →

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Album review: ERIC STECKEL – Dismantle The Sun

Posted on September 7, 2013 by petefeenstra

Eric Steckel Music   [Release Date: 31.10.12] Eric Steckel’s ‘Dismantle The Sun’ was originally released in the States towards the end of last year, but is being belated promoted in the UK on the back of his first proper UK … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE RED PAINTINGS – The Revolution Is Never Coming

Posted on September 7, 2013 by GRTR! HQ
The Red Paintings

[Release date 30.09.13] If aliens were scanning earth’s frequencies then The Red Paintings’ The Revolution Is Never Coming could well be the summation.  Quite what they’d make of it, I’m not sure.  They’d either think humanity was ripe for harvesting, … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: RUSTY SHACKLE, STEPHEN KELLOGG, THE DUNWELLS, ROD PICOTT

Posted on September 7, 2013 by GRTR! HQ
The Dunwells - Follow The Road

Rusty Shackle – The Bones Rusty Shackle appear to have tripped over the ‘difficult second album’ stepping stone with the follow up to their 2012 debut album Wash Away These Nights which was a more varied offering than the ‘pedal … Continue reading →

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Album review: TONY McLOUGHLIN – The Contender

Posted on September 7, 2013 by GRTR! HQ
Tony McLoughlin - The Contender

He may look uncannily like Billy Connolly’s long lost brother, but opening with strains of Muhammad Ali getting ready to ‘rumble in the jungle’, Tony Mcloughlin’s fifth album The Contender is a glorious Telecaster-infused slab of Tom Petty/Springsteen inspired Americana. … Continue reading →

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Album review: HAKEN – The Mountain

Posted on September 6, 2013 by jason

Inside Out www.insideout.de This is Haken’s third album, although they only came across my musical radar after seeing an excellent performance at this year’s Celebr8.2 prog festival. This is a concept album about each everyone’s personal mountain they have to … Continue reading →

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Album Review: THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT – The Temperance Movement

Posted on September 6, 2013 by david.wilson

      Earache [Release date – 16.09.13] There is a lot of industry buzz around The Temperance Movement at the moment with the guys gaining plenty of airplay across the country and great live reviews appearing in the press. … Continue reading →

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