Monthly Archives: June 2013

Album review: JULIAN LENNON – Everything Changes

Posted on June 8, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Music In Another Room [Release date 03.06.13] When it was originally released in October 2011 in the UK and Ireland, Julian Lennon’s sixth studio album failed to tickle the Top 100, and neither of the singles lifted from it – … Continue reading →

Album review: CASSIE TAYLOR – Out Of My Mind

Posted on June 8, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Hypertension [Release date 13.05.13] Having served a 10 year apprenticeship playing bass and singing in her father, modern-day blues innovator Otis Taylor’s band, Cassie Taylor has paid her dues at the age of only 26. With one album already under … Continue reading →

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DVD Review: JETHRO TULL – Around The World Live

Posted on June 8, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Eagle Vision EREDV982 (4-disc/Book) One of the “strange decisions in rock” in recent years has been that of Ian Anderson to seemingly cast off his first lieutenant: Martin Lancelot Barre. It seems that his trusty cohort since 1969 hasn’t really … Continue reading →

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Quick plays (singles): TARJA, THEA GILMORE, REBELLIOUS SPIRIT, MATINEE, RUBYLUX, VALENTIINE

Posted on June 6, 2013 by jason

THEA GILMORE – Start As We Mean To Go On Start As We Mean To Go is the second single to be lifted from Thea Gilmore’s excellent new album Regardless. With the impetus from the first single Love Came Looking … Continue reading →

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Album review: AYNSLEY LISTER – Home

Posted on June 6, 2013 by jason

www.aynsleylister.co.uk [Release date 08.07.13] Despite starting off on his musical journey through the blues in the late 90’s ‘Home’ is amazingly his tenth album to date. Aynsley Lister is one of the current crop of young blues rock musicians breaking … Continue reading →

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Album review: MOSS – Horrible Night

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Yiannis

Rise Above – Out Now. The Bass guitar and Doom Metal are two concepts that seem to go hand-in-hand and are inter-connected to such an extent that one simply can’t imagine the one without the other. Well, the Southampton-based trio … Continue reading →

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Album review: VICIOUS RUMORS – Electric Punishment

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Yiannis

SPV – Out Now. Thirty three years is a long time for any band, especially one that has survived the death of a frontman and the departure of enough members to fill two whole basketball teams, and then some. In … Continue reading →

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Album Review: FLYING CIRCUS – Ones And Zeros

Posted on June 5, 2013 by alanjones

Self-released – 2013 OK, let’s get all the Monty Python out of the way shall we? And breathe… Flying Circus are a German neo-prog outfit with four albums behind them who cite comparisons with Rush and Led Zeppelin, and ‘Ones … Continue reading →

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Album review: JAPAETI – Abacus

Posted on June 5, 2013 by david.wilson

Self Release (Release date – out now) Technical, progressive metal is a genre inhabited by musicians of undoubted talent and quite possibly a history of insanity within their family. Quite how a group of musos can sit … Continue reading →

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Album review: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM – Ugly Noise

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Yiannis

Metal Blade – Out Now. The relationship between the Arisona-based Metallers Flotsam And Jetsan and Brian Slagel’s Metal Blade Records has been marked by many highs and lows over the last three decades and the last time that these two … Continue reading →

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Album review: INTRONAUT – Habitual Levitations

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Yiannis

Century Media – Out Now. When it comes to choosing which albums to review for our site, the parameters I have set are actually pretty straightforward and simple: the more diverse, demanding and unique a band is the more inclined … Continue reading →

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News: JAMES LABRIE – New album release announced

Posted on June 4, 2013 by jason

After the much acclaimed “Static Impulse” release in 2010, Dream Theater’s James LaBrie is back with a powerful new studio album effort entitled “Impermanent Resonance”, to be released on July 29th, 2013 in Europe and August 6th, 2013 … Continue reading →

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Album review: METHOD TO MADNESS – Guilty As Sin

Posted on June 4, 2013 by petefeenstra

Method To Madness [Release date 04.13] Method To Madness is an American prog metal band that proudly sticks to its task of producing a concept album with a preface, three acts and 15 tracks. The concept is about a policeman … Continue reading →

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Interviews: 10Q’s with BAI BANG

Posted on June 4, 2013 by jason

Vocalist Diddi Kastenholt of Bai Bang gives us the lowdown on their new album ‘All Around the World’, which is out now on AOR Heaven… What are you currently up to? The new album “All Around The World” is just … Continue reading →

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Album Review: COLOSSUS – Wake

Posted on June 4, 2013 by jason

Perennity Records/Sound Pollution Colossus are a classic power trio delivering stoner/doom metal spliced with melodic colour and progressive elements running through many of their arrangements. The band hail from Sweden and ‘Wake’ is their first full album following a debut … Continue reading →

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Gig Review: MICHAEL SCHENKER – Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, 31 May 2013

Posted on June 4, 2013 by jason

Interview edit: Michael Schenker, 5 December 2012 Michael talks about ‘Temple Of Rock’ and future plans First broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on 9 December 2012 (An extended, podcast version of this interview is available here) In a … Continue reading →

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Album review: ROGER PEDERSEN – More Is More

Posted on June 3, 2013 by petefeenstra

West Audio production [Release date 05.04.13] Norwegian guitarist Roger Pederson is a jaw dropping technician who solo’s at breathtaking speed. He frequently applies a two handed tapping technique to some impossible shreds, while exploring scintillating dynamics and a multitude of … Continue reading →

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Gig review: Johnny’s Rock N Roll Show – THE ZOMBIES, ARGENT, Aylesbury, 2 June 2013

Posted on June 3, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Two years on, following a life-changing trampoline accident, Johnny Beer Timms has maintained a warming sense of humour as he presided over this evening’s tribute and fundraiser. The guitarists Danny Prendergast and Jerry Playle provided a tranquil and reflective acoustic … Continue reading →

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Album review: SLAID CLEAVES – Still Fighting The War

Posted on June 3, 2013 by petefeenstra

Music Road Records [Release date 01.07.13] Slaid Cleaves is an Americana singer-songwriter who pens insightful story telling and relationship songs of which there are several. You may wonder if there’s still an audience for the troubadour in these post modern … Continue reading →

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Album review: BURNING RAIN – Epic Obsession

Posted on June 2, 2013 by andynathan

Frontiers Records [Release date 20.5.13] It may be his role as David Coverdale’s guitar slinger in Whitesnake that has brought him to wider attention, but Doug Aldrich has not forgotten his old band mates, as one of his former acts … Continue reading →

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Gig review: MIKE TRAMP – The Star Of Kings, London, 22 May 2013

Posted on June 2, 2013 by andynathan

Mike Tramp seems to be the embodiment of the old adage that you can’t buy happiness. He enjoyed two US top 10 hits and stadium tours as lead singer of White Lion, who I and many others thought were … Continue reading →

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Album review: VINDICTIV – Cage Of Infinity

Posted on June 2, 2013 by jason

Escape Music www.escape-music.com Vindictiv return after a few years gap with a new album, line-up and most noticeably sound. Previously I have not been overly keen on the band’s previous two albums, which despite featuring Goran Edman on vocals came … Continue reading →

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Gig Review: RUSH – SECC, Glasgow, 30 May 2013

Posted on June 2, 2013 by david.wilson

Before this gig I mentioned to a colleague at work that I was going to see Rush and got met by a blank look, when I mentioned it was a near sell out at the SECC and the tickets were … Continue reading →

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Album Review: CORVUS STONE – Corvus Stone

Posted on June 1, 2013 by alanjones

Melodic Revolution Records: Released November 2012 I do a radio show for Get Ready To Rock Radio (third Sunday of the month at 5pm -you should check it out!) that goes by the name of ‘The … Continue reading →

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Album review: MR AVERELL – Gridlock

Posted on June 1, 2013 by petefeenstra

Gonzo Multi Media [Release date 06.05.13] René van Commenée is Dutch visual sound artist. He trained as a graphical designer and is a self taught musician who studied Indian classical music as a tabla player. Never one to take the … Continue reading →