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Album Review – LORD – Digital Lies

Posted on May 5, 2013 by david.wilson

Dominus Records (Release date – out now) Lord started out life as Dungeon in the depths of the Australian outback. They relocated to Sydney and had a successful career, releasing 9 albums and finding an audience across Australia and beyond, … Continue reading →

Album review: MAJESTIC – V.O.Z.

Posted on May 5, 2013 by alanjones

Self-released [Release date 17.12.12] In these days of risible TV talent shows where the sole ambition of the participants is the acquisition of fame and fortune (however transient that may be), the word ‘genius’ is frequently bandied about to describe … Continue reading →

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Album review: CITY REIGN – Another Step

Posted on May 5, 2013 by jason

Car Boot Records The heavy guitar lead “Another Step”is the debut album from Manchester quartet City Reign, and is an expressive burst of story, doing indie how indie should be done. The tracks were all recorded in Salford’s Scared Trinity … Continue reading →

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Album review: H.I.M. – Tears On Tape

Posted on May 5, 2013 by jason

Cooking Vinyl His Infernal Majesty aren’t the sort of band to go reinventing themselves for every album, and Tears On Tape pretty much follows the usual musical formula found in some of their older records, but Ville Valo and co. … Continue reading →

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Album review: KINGDOM COME – Outlier

Posted on May 4, 2013 by jason

SPV www.spv.de [Release date: 29.04.13] Kingdom Come’s new “Outlier” album could more accurately be credited as a Lenny Wolf solo effort as the band’s main man handles everything bar the guitar solos, these being provided by Eric Forster. Wolf also … Continue reading →

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Album review: TOM KEIFER – The Way Life Goes

Posted on May 4, 2013 by jason

Merovee Records [Release date 29.04.13] For me, Cinderella always stood head and shoulders above the general hair metal bands that they would unfairly be lumped in with. With grittier songs, real feeling subject material and a more mature outlook the … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: KILL FOR EDEN, CIRCA, MELINDA ORTNER

Posted on May 4, 2013 by jason

KILL FOR EDEN – S/T www.killforeden.com Interestingly, anyone I have mentioned West London band Kill For Eden to has enthusiastically told me how good they are and the general feeling is that their debut, and self titled, album should do … Continue reading →

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Album review: CHASING VIOLETS – Jade Hearts

Posted on May 3, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

AOR Records [Release date 14.06.13] I think producer Frederic Slama compromised Chasing Violets’ debut album ‘Outside Heaven’ (2012) by re-using the songs (and the backing tracks) for his own project album ‘LA Temptation’. Slama is a respected LA-based AOR mover … Continue reading →

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Album review: STATUS QUO – Bula Quo

Posted on May 2, 2013 by jason

Fourth Chord Records/Warners (2CD) [Release date 10.06.13] Status Quo have gone silver screen in Kiss fashion with a film Bula Quo, shot in Fiji, with the band playing themselves. The film’s soundtrack (disc 1) features 9 new tracks and kicks … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: MARC RING, LENKA, THE PROWLERS

Posted on May 1, 2013 by jason

MARC RING – The Long Road Home www.marc-ring.co.uk Marc Ring was previously a member of folk rockers Jasper (who have recently had a re-issue campaign through Angel Air) and Good Thinking, who released a comeback album back in 2011. For … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE JAN HOLBERG PROJECT – Sense Of Time, At Your Service

Posted on April 29, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Sense Of Time (2011) Norwegian bassist Jan Holberg has a good philosophy outlined in his liner notes to 2011′s ‘Sense Of Time’: that with music there should be no boundaries. So in his first ‘solo’ venture he explores AOR and … Continue reading →

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Album review: TRUCKER DIABLO – Songs Of Iron

Posted on April 29, 2013 by david.wilson

Ripple Music [Release date – 13.05.13] Back in December 2011 Trucker Diablo’s first album ‘The Devil Rhythm’ dropped onto my door mat ripe for review. After listening to said disc my one issue with the album was that it had … Continue reading →

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Album review: MOON BIRD – Signs of Illusion

Posted on April 27, 2013 by petefeenstra

Kwinch Music/TSM [Release date:04.13] Moon Bird is a great name for a band that revels in layered sounds, sweeping melodies and David Gilmour style progressions. ‘Signs Of Illusion’ is probably too derivative to break new ground, but given … Continue reading →

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Album review: FLICKER – How Much Are You Willing To Forget?

Posted on April 27, 2013 by alanjones

Self-released – 28.1.2013 I wonder, historically, how many really good albums have never been given the chance to shine or be commercially successful due to an opening track being so naff that most reviewers Frisbee the disc to the wastebasket … Continue reading →

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Album review: JOE SATRIANI – Unstoppable Momentum

Posted on April 27, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Interview edit: Joe Satriani, 24 May 2013 First broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on 6 June 2013 Epic [Release date 06.05.13] With guitar instrumentals, in fact guitar rock per se, it nearly always comes back to Satch. Well, nearly always. How … Continue reading →

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Album review: SHADOWQUEEN – Don’t Tell

Posted on April 24, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Bad Reputation [Release date 13.05.13] I realised recently – and unplanned – that the first half-hour of my weekly radio show was made up of several Aussie acts, including Tracer and original AC/DC vocalist Dave Evans. Along with bands like … Continue reading →

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Album review: DEEP PURPLE: Now What?!

Posted on April 24, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

earMUSIC [Release date: 29.04.13] I remember seeing Purple on their 2009 tour and, between albums, it all seemed a bit lack-lustre with a perfunctory trawl through the familiar golden nuggets. Fast forward to their 19th studio album and the band … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: CRAIG JOHN DAVIDSON, ERICA NOCKALLS, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON,DERRIN NAUENDORF

Posted on April 23, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Craig John Davidson – The Last Laugh (Fat Hippy Records) [Release date: 29.04.13] Being on Fat Hippy Records is somewhat appropriate in the case of this 4th solo album from acoustic troubadour Craig John Davidson. Not because he’s fat, because … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE BEAUTIFUL OLD – Turn Of The Century Songs

Posted on April 23, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Doubloon Records [Release date 03.06.13) Who of those baby boomers amongst us can't immediately recall the strains of the [the man on] ‘The Flying Trapeze’ – a staple on Children’s Favourites? This loving re-visiting of parlour songs from the 1823 … Continue reading →

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Album review: RUTH MOODY – These Wilder Things

Posted on April 23, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

A six day residency at The Royal Albert Hall (albeit opening for Mark Knopfler) says a lot about the rising status of Ruth Moody, founder and current member of Billboard topping band The Wailin’ Jennys. Produced and engineered by David … Continue reading →

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Album review: ALANIS MORISSETTE – Live At Montreux 2012

Posted on April 23, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Alanis Morissette - Live At Montreux 2013

Eagle Rock The fact that Alanis Morissette has sold over 60 million albums is pretty impressive. The fact that over half have been her been her monumental 1995 ‘debut’ album Jagged Little Pill, suggests that it’s a career highpoint that … Continue reading →

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Album review: THEA GILMORE – Regardless

Posted on April 23, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Fulfill [Release date 14.05.13] Thea Gilmore is nothing if not prolific – Regardless is her 14th album in as many years, but look a little more deeply at her recent output and you’ll see that her last two offerings have … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: DANGER ANGEL, LORNE HIND

Posted on April 23, 2013 by jason

Perris Records www.perrisrecords.com Formed back in Athens, Greece in 2006 this is Danger Angel’s second album and they have enlisted Jeff Scott Soto to produce the album plus add his backing vocals. Jeff Scott Soto performed the vocals on their … Continue reading →

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Album review: ZENIT – The Chandrasekhar Limit

Posted on April 20, 2013 by alanjones

Galileo Records – [Released date: 28.1.2013] Often the clue’s in the name isn’t it? ‘The Chandrasekhar Limit’ (a mathematical term regarding black holes) could only be progressive rock couldn’t it? And not just any old progressive rock either – with … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE HYPER ACTIVES – Rock n’ Roll Lives Again

Posted on April 20, 2013 by david.wilson

Self Release (Release date – out now) This is an aptly named band as the rocking punk they produce is indeed hyperactive. These crazy Swedes have been together for 5 years and this is their debut album, it has actually … Continue reading →