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Tag Archives: review
Album review: ORIANTHI – Heaven In This Hell
Spinefarm Records [Release date 11.03.13] You don’t get endorsement by Carlos Santana and Steve Vai, and become the King Of Pop and Alice Cooper’s ‘must have’ lead guitarist without having two things – a) talent and b) image. And in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice Cooper, Dave Stewart, guitar, guitarist, Heaven In This Hell, Orianthi, review, rock
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EP Review: RISE OF REALISM – Side Blue
Exidemusic (Release date – out now) This EP is one of a five EP set each with its own individual style. The band wanted to release their music in this format to replicate the experience of listening to vinyl albums … Continue reading
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Tagged EP, metal, prog, review, rise of realism, Side Blue
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EP Review: JET PACK – Chasing Sunsets
Self Release ( Release date – 06.05.13) Jet Pack hail from the Midlands and this is their latest EP. Mastering in alt rock the band reminded me of Jimmy Eat World at their best. They provide quality melodic rock with a … Continue reading
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Tagged alt rock, Chasing Sunsets, EP, Jet Pack, Jimmy Eat World, pop, punk, review
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Album review: DOUG MACLOUD – There’s A Time
Reference [Release date 13.05.13] The blues must be in reasonably good shape if there’s room for a great album like this. Doug MacLeod has lived, breathed, played, sang and written the blues for longer than most of … Continue reading
Album Review: DEVIL TO PAY – Fate Is Your Muse
Ripple Music (Release date 09.04.13) ‘Fate Is Your Muse’ is the fourth album by Indianapolis rockers, Devil To Pay. The band formed ten years ago and have honed their sound over this period transforming into a heavy, eight legged monster … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Sabbath, CD, Clutch, Devil To Pay, Fate Is Your Muse, metal, review, rock
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Album review: THIEVES’ KITCHEN – One For Sorrow, Two For Joy
Self-released – 2013 Well, where to start with this one? There are just so many good things going on and so many influences here that it’s difficult to pin down exactly where it’s coming from. A simple distillation would be … Continue reading
Album review: DAVE GROHL & Others – Sound City Real To Reel
Sony Music Hot-housing for 24 hours in a studio using a legendary Neve 8028 mixer sounds like musical nirvana. And indeed it was during the making of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ album that Dave Grohl was introduced to the desk. He bought … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Goss, Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, review, Rick Springfield, Sound City, soundtrack, Stevie Nicks
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Album review: RORY GALLAGHER – Live At The Montreux Festival 1975-94
Salvo Records [Release date 08.04.13] Although these recordings are available separately (previously released in 2006 and 2008) this is the first time they are available as a dual-format release. The compilers have brought together a single CD which spans a … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, guitar, guitarist, Live At The Montreux Festival 1975-94, review, rock, Rory Gallagher
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Album review: THE JEFF HEALEY BAND – House On Fire/As The Years Go Passing By
As The Years Go Passing By – Live In Germany 1989-1995-2000 (Inakustik) Since his death in 2008 there have been a steady steam of releases featuring one of the modern blues greats. This boxed set, recorded by German TV, brings … Continue reading
Gig review: GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS, Bush Hall, London, 13 March 2013
It’s strange how some bands that have a big profile in the United States rarely cross the radar over this side of the pond. Vermont-based Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are one such and I admit to knowing little about … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, classic rock, gig, Grace Potter, review, rock, the Nocturnals
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Gig Review: ERIC MARTIN (Mr Big), Live Lounge, Cardiff, 19 March 2013
Mr Big, made a series of excellent hits dominating the 90s. Eventually they split up in 2002, then after a long break and a reunion in 2009 they decided to stay together and produce a new album in 2011. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 19 March 2013, acoustic, Cardiff, Eric Martin, gig, Live Lounge, Mr Big, review
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Album review: SIDONY BOX – Rules
Sidony Box play what they call, ‘music of the moment’, revelling in free- form spontaneity which leaves the listener wondering just where they will go next. Nothing is predictable, except perhaps the opening blast of cacophony and … Continue reading
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Tagged albumj, alto sax, Arhthur Narcy, avant garde, drums, Elie Dalibert, Ex-tension records, free=from, guitar, imorov, jazz, Manuel Adnot, percussion, progressive, review, rock, Rules, Sidony Box, spontaneity
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Album review: SPOCK’S BEARD – Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep
Inside Out www.insideout.de Spock’s Beard return after the well received ‘X’ album and a major line-up change as drummer/vocalist Nick D’Virgilio left in 2011. In his place come two new members, drummer Jimmy Keegan and Enchant vocalist Ted Leonard (do … Continue reading
Gig Review: LOVE/ HATE, KNOCK OUT KAINE – Bannermans, Edinburgh, 27 March 2013
Interesting venue Bannermans. It is in the Old Town part of Edinburgh and is a vaulted cellar which forms a compact little venue. At their peak Love/Hate would have been playing venues at least ten times the size of Bannermans, … Continue reading
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Tagged 27 March 2013, Bannermans, Blackout In The Red Room, Edinburgh, gig, Jizzy Pearl, Knock Out Kaine, live, Love/Hate, review
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Album review: SIX FEET UNDER – Unborn
Metal Blade – Out Now. Constant band line up changes are normally the stuff of nightmares for any devoted fan as they normally tend to affect both the style and character of a band. In the case of the Floridian … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Barnes, Death Metal, issue, review, Six Feet Under, Unborn
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Album review: VREID – Welcome Farewell
Indie Recordings – Out Now. London has always been a desired destination for Rock bands since the inception of the genre. One band which has consistently made an effort with visiting the capital of the United Kingdom, mainly as an … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Metal, issue, review, Vreid, Welcome Farewell
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Album review: SODOM – Epitome Of Torture
SPV – Release Date 29/4/2013. Coming up with a decent introduction to a new Sodom album has always been a difficult task for me. I mean, what is there to say that hasn’t already been stated about Tom Angelripper and … Continue reading
HAMMERFEST V, Pwllheli,Wales,14-16 March 2013
Another year, another venue but Hammerfest V goes on with the same spirit that it has done for the previous years. Yes there may have been a number of people complaining about the new venue, the line up etc but … Continue reading
Gig review: THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT – NQ Live,Manchester, 8 March 2013
Planet Rock Presents was always going to be a great night and that was evident before we arrived at the venue as it was already sold out. This was due to the quality of the bands on tonight and that … Continue reading
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Tagged 8 March 2013, blues, Fighting Wolves, gig, Manchester, NQ Live, review, rock, Slam Cartel, The Temperance Movement
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Album review: SHAI HULUD – Reach Beyond The Sun
Metal Blade – Out Now. Hardcore is a genre that operates within clearly defined parameters and which obeys strict rules; it is a genre that’s long been associated with massive simply-crafted and highly energised Punk-sounding riffs and passionate shouting vocals. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Hardcore, issue, metal, Reach Beyond The Sun, review, Shai Hulud
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Album review: FINTROLL – Blodsvept
Century Media – Out Now. “Shrouded In Blood”, the English translation for “Blodsvept”, is a title that one would find most fitting for an extreme Death Metal band and not the sixth studio album of the Folk-influenced septet Finntroll, however, … Continue reading
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Tagged Blodsvept, Finntroll, folk, metal, review, symphonic
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Gig review: STIFF LITTLE FINGERS – The Forum, Kentish Town, 22 March 2013
The Men They Couldn’t Hang provided a perfect opening for Stiff Little Fingers. Their firebrand folk-punk set harked back to the glory days of The Pogues and the radical high water mark of New Model Army and Billy Bragg. Well-crafted … Continue reading
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Tagged 22 March 2013, gig, Kentish Town, London, review, Stiff Little Fingers, The Forum
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Gig review: FM – Shepherds Bush Empire, London, 23 March 2013
2013 sees FM’s stock as high as it has been for some time. Hot on the heels of not one but two new albums, they filled the first three levels of Shepherds Bush Empire. While last year’s gigs celebrating the … Continue reading
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Tagged 23 March 2013, AOR, FM, gig, It Bites, London, melodic, review, rock, Shepherd's Bush Empire, Vega
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Album review: BARNEY BENTALL – Flesh & Bone
Three independent and seven studio albums into a career that kicked off in 1978, it’s a wonder that the name Barney Bentall – a Vancouver based singer songwriter – has never registered on the GRTR! radar. Those with an encyclopaedic … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Barney Bentall, Flesh & Bone, folk, review, rock, roots, singer, songwriter, The Legendary Hearts
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Album review: JOE BONAMASSA – An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House
Provogue 2-CD set/2-DVD/Bluray [Monday 25.03.13] ‘An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House’ finds Joe Bonamassa playing to his strengths in an unplugged mode. Together with a carefully chosen multi instrumental quintet, his playing is eloquent, … Continue reading
