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Gig review: BIG COUNTRY – Clapham Grand, 28 November 2014
Big Country’s sophomore album Steeltown has had the full treatment to mark its 30th anniversary, first a deluxe reissue and then a tour in which the album is played in its entirety. The band did a similar thing with their … Continue reading
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Tagged 28 November 2014, album, Big Country, Clapham Grand, London, review, rock
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Album review: DREW HOLCOMB & THE NEIGHBORS – Medicine
Magnolia Music [Release date 26.01.15] With a Divinity Masters degree from St Andrews, and a dissertation on ‘Springsteen and American Redemptive Imagination’ under his belt, it’s clear where Southern singer songwriter Drew Holcomb’s heart lies. His 2005 debut Washed In … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, Medicine, review, roots
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Album review: SUZI QUATRO – The Girl From Detroit City (Box set)
Cherry Red Records [Release date 27.10.14] It would be all too easy to dismiss the girl from Detroit City as a Mickie Most, Chinn/ Chapman puppet, but this beautifully packaged 4-CD, 82 track career retrospective attempts to but the record … Continue reading
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Tagged album, box set, Chris Norman, compilation, Jeff Beck, review, Suzi Quatro, The Girl From Detroit City
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Album review: RAPHEUMET’S WELL – Dimensions
Sometimes a local band will come along and blow you away with the music they play. Living around Charlotte, NC I’m a lucky guy because the metal scene is pretty incredible. I have been lucky to see some amazing bands … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Metal, metal, Rapheumet's Well, review, symphonic
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Album review: ROD STEWART – Vinyl
Universal (5 LP box set) [Released 01.12.14] For the first time, Rod Stewart’s five studio LPs originally released between 1969 and 1974 are released in a boxed set (his Mercury label years before he switched label to Warner Brothers). Each … Continue reading
Album Review: BLOODBOUND – Stormborn
AFM Records [release date 21.11.14] Swedish metal-heads Bloodbound return with an evil looking album to celebrate their tenth anniversary and like their last release “In The Name Of Metal”, you just know what to expect with “Stormborn”…or do you… Enjoyable … Continue reading
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Tagged AFM, album, Anders Broman, Bloodbound, Fredrik Bergh, Henrik Olsson, metal, Patrik Johansson, Pelle Akerlind, review, Stormborn, Tomas Olsson
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Album review: LARRY MILLER – Soldier Of The Line
Big Guitar [Release date 24.11.14] ‘Soldier Of The Line’ is an aptly titled, song driven album that taps into the unbroken spirit of Larry Miller. His unrelenting roadwork, scuffed scratch plate, broken strings and relationship songs are the nuts and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Gary Moore, guitarist, Joe Bonamassa, Larry Miller, Peter Green, review, rock, Soldier of the Line, Thin Lizzy
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Album review: VARGAS BLUES BAND – From The Dark
Off Yer Rocka [Release date 27.10.14] It’s 23 years since Javier Vargas first announced himself to European blues audiences. In the interim, the Spanish rock blues guitarist has established himself a Latino blues crossover artist who has also prospered in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Dani Wilde, From The Dark, Gaz Pearson, guitar, javier Vargas, Latino, Los Lobos, review, rock, Roy Buchanan, Vargas Blues Band, ZZ Top
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Album review – LAWLESS – R.I.S.E.
Escape Music [Released 08.12.14] Quick follow-up from the band’s debut album ‘Rock Savage’ released last year sees Lawless carry on with their classy brand of melodic/classic Brit metal. The band feature two members of Demon – vocalist/rhythm guitarist Paul Hume … Continue reading
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Tagged album, DEMON, Escape Music, hard rock, Headrush, LAWLESS, metal, Persian Risk, review, Stoke
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Album review: GONG – I See You
Madfish [Release date 10.11.14] Daevid Allan’s Gong unexpectedly return with a musically complex album, full of biting lyrics and dense but enjoyable music that straddles the jazz and psychedelic, space-rock divide. ‘I See You’ has internationalist … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cardiacs, Daevid Allan, Dave Sturt, Eno, Fabio Golfetti, fusion, Gentle Giant, Gill Scott Heron, Gilli Smyth, Gong, Hawkwind, I See You, Ian East, jazz, Jethro Tull, Kavus Torabi, King Crimson, Orlando Allan, Pierre Moerlen, Pierre Moerlin, Pink Floyd, psychedelia, review, rock, space rock, Steve Hillage, Tangerine Dream
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Album review: WITCH MOUNTAIN – Mobile Of Angels
Svart Records – Out Now. Female-fronted vintage-sounding bands have been on the rise for quite some time now so you would certainly be excused to think that Witch Mountain may just be another outfit eager to jump into this specific … Continue reading
Album review: NECROHOLOCAUST – Holocaustic Goat Metal
Iron Bonehead – Out Now. Though a huge fan of the Canadian Metal scene since the mid 80s, I admit that the name Necroholocaust meant absolutely nothing to me prior to being granted access to “Holocaustic Goat Metal” – the … Continue reading
Album review: DEATH PENALTY – Death Penalty
Rise Above – Out Now. There are many fans of groove-laden Doom Metal, myself included, who still cannot believe that UK legends Cathedral are no longer with us. During, however, the time that we were left licking our wounds and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Death Penalty, heavy metal, review
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Album review: FOREIGNER – The Best Of Foreigner 4 And More
Frontiers www.frontiers.it [Release date 08.12.14] Foreigner are are getting like fellow classic rockers Styx and REO Speedwagon releasing live albums and re-recording classic songs, as opposed to recording new music. Their last studio album was 2009′s excellent ‘Can’t Slow Down’ … Continue reading
Album review: COLOSSEUM – Time On Our Side
Ruf [Release date 24.11.14] A welcome return for the progressive jazz rock outfit Colosseum who have overcome their collective health problems to record an album that pushes the stylistic envelope, and almost leaves them in search of an identity. Happily … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Ana Gracey, Barbara Thompson, Chris Farlowe, Clem Clemson, Colosseum, Crosby Stills & Nash, Dave Brubeck, Dave Greenslade, Jack Bruce, jazz, John Hiseman, Kokomo, Mark Clarke, Pete Brown, review, rock, Steely Dan, Time On Our Side
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Album review: CARL CARLTON – Lights Out In Wonderland
Caroline International [Release date 24.11.14] Carl Carlton is an American based German songwriter, musical director, producer and triple Grammy Award nominee whose credits include Robert Palmer, Eric Burdon, Herman Brood, Mink Deville, Joe Cocker and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Bob Dylan, Carl Carlton, Dave Davies, Eric Burdon, Herman Brood, Jaqueline Kennedy, JJ Cale, JOE COCKER, Levon Helm, Lights Out In Wonderland, Mink Deville, review, Robert Palmer, Steely Dan, Udo Lindenberg
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Album review: ENTOMBED A.D. – Back To The Front
Century Media – Out Now. Funny story; a couple of months ago, I was browsing through the internet when I came across the cover artwork of an album called “Back To The Front” from a band whose name was Entombed … Continue reading
Album review: ENGLISH DOGS – The Thing With Two Heads
Candlelight – Out Now. First formed in October 1981 and performing at the same UK sweaty venues with the likes of GBH & Discharge, Grantham-based Hardcore Punk/Crossover legends English Dogs have experienced numerous member changes over the years. Most fans, … Continue reading
Album review: EASTERN FRONT – Descent Into Genocide
Candlelight – Out Now. Located on the estuary of the River Orwell in beautiful Suffolk, Ipswich is not the kind of place that can openly compete with cities like Birmingham and London in terms of its overall significance in the … Continue reading
Album review: BLUES PILLS – Blues Pills
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Retro Rock is currently the flavour of choice and no other country in the world has embraced and best represented the sound of 70s Rock than Sweden – the very Scandinavian nation that brought us, … Continue reading
Album review: JOHN GARCIA – John Garcia
Napalm Records – Out Now. I have to admit that I was initially quite puzzled by the idea of John Garcia releasing a solo album at this moment in time. Why? Well, since the mighty Kyuss decided to disband in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, John Garcia, Kyuss, review, stoner rock
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Album review: ENTRAILS – Resurrected From The Grave
Metal Blade – Out Now. Death Metal reached its commercial peak in the early 90s and, at that time, it was Sweden which became the epicentre of the said movement in the ‘old continent’, mainly due to the very existence … Continue reading
Album review: EMPYRIUM – The Turn Of The Tides
Prophecy Productions – Out Now. When Markus Stock, otherwise known as Ulf Theodor Schwadorf, decided to put his Dark Symphonic Folk Metal project Empyrium to rest back in 2002 he did so by claiming that the band needed to “move … Continue reading
Album review: KING OF ASGARD – Karg
Metal Blade – Out Now. Sometimes, the choice of an appropriate name is really worth its weight in gold. Take, for instance, the Swedish Melodic Death/Viking Metal quartet King Of Asgard. I had absolutely no clue whatsoever what these lads … Continue reading
Album review: DEMONIC RESURRECTION – The Demon King
Candlelight – Out Now. Coming from a country as tradition-orientated as India and playing Extreme Metal cannot be an easy thing but this is exactly what the six members of the Blackened Death Metal outfit Demonic Resurrection decided to do … Continue reading
