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Yearly Archives: 2021
Quick plays: BADFINGER, CACTUS
BADFINGER No Matter What Revisiting The Hits Cleopatra Records [Release date 02.04.21] Badfinger were one of our greatest pop rock bands with a criminally short life-span, not least due to the sad demise of the band’s two main movers and … Continue reading
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Tagged ALBERT LEE, album, Badfinger, blues rock, Cactus, Carmine Appice, hard rock, Ian Anderson, No Matter What Revisiting The Hits, pop rock, review, Rick Springfield, Rick Wakeman, Sonny Landreth, Terry Reid, Tightrope, Todd Rundgren
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Album review: TRUCKER DIABLO – Tail End Of A Hurricane
Self Release [Release date 07.05.21] Given the past year it feels like we are all at the tail end of a hurricane with a trail of devastation behind us but blue skies up ahead. Who better to take us there then … Continue reading
Album review: PHIL VINCENT – Stigmata
Bandcamp [Release date 26.05.21] Solo album number 23 from Phil Vincent and like last year’s ‘Yesterday, Tomorrow & Today’ he is joined by guitarist Vince O’Regan and Janne Stark guests on ‘So Tired’, with Jacob Hansen once again in the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Beatles, hard rock, interview, Janne Stark, melodic rock, Phil Vincent, review, rock, Stigmata, Vince O'Regan
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Quick plays: KATE VARGAS, TRICK OR TREAT, CRAIG CARDIFF
KATE VARGAS For the Wolfish & Wandering Bad Reputation This is Kate Vargas’s third album, released last year, and she has recently launched a Crowdfunding campaign to finance her next album. Her press bio has her down as a reformed … Continue reading
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Tagged album, All This Time Running, Americana, Craig cardiff, folk, For the Wolfish & Wandering, indie, Kate Vargas, melodic metal, metal, power metal, review, roots, singer songwriter, the Unlocked Songs, Trick Or Treat
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Album review: JR HARBIDGE – Long Black River
www.jrharbidge.com/home [Release date 30.04.21] Black Country based J.R. Harbidge releases his second album ‘Long Black River’, from which three singles have already dropped — ‘Wrong Side of The Fight’, ‘Break the Spell’ and ‘Sunshine Not Rain’. “My new album,” says … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, blues, country, JR Harbidge, Long Black River, melodic, review, singer songwriter
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News: ASIA, ANTHRAX, TOBY HITCHCOCK, GENESIS (May 2021)
Alter Bridge plan to record their next album in 2022. Joan Armatrading’s new album ‘Consequences’ is released on June 18 via BMG. Asia are celebrating their 40th anniversary by releasing a 5CD boxset ‘The Reunion Albums: 2007 – 2012′ through … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthrax, AOR, Asia, blues, Darkthrone, festivals, folk, Genesis, gigs, Hardline, metal, Michael Wagner, news, prog, rock, Toby Hitchcock, tour dates
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Album review: LYNYRD SKYNYRD – Live at Knebworth ‘76
Eagle Rock Entertainment [Release date .21] “Live at Knebworth ‘76” is the recently released live film and soundtrack from legendary Southern rock royalty Lynyrd Skynyrd. Whilst clips have been released from the film over the years, most notably in the … Continue reading
Album review: SENTON BOMBS – Aerial Threat
Regolith Records [Release date 27.03.21] Blackpool’s Senton Bombs have recently unleashed their sixth album “Aerial Threat”, a tasty blend of punk, blues and rock, with the odd country twinge, and it follows up 2018’s “Outsiders” nicely. Of the fourteen tracks … Continue reading
Album review: ALICE COOPER – Three Temptations From Alice
Floating World [Release date 11.6.21] With Alice Cooper’s new album “Detroit Stories” garnering plenty of media attention, this timely 2CD set collects his three Epic label albums which were originally released between 1989 and 1994. For “Trash” he teamed up … Continue reading
Album review: FALSE MEMORIES – The Last Night Of Fall
Frontiers [Release date 07.05.21] Guitarist, Francesco Savino founded False Memories in 2015, but it was only when he recruited vocalist, Rossella Moscatelli in 2018 that the band’s career gained some momentum. Subsequently, they were one of a mere handful of … Continue reading
Album review: THE COSMIC TRIP ADVISORS – Wrong Again Albert (2 CDs)
Bad Reputation France [Release date 09.04.21] Here’s an interesting tale to tell. Rock band, The Cosmic Trip Advisors fly from native Scotland to a “fancy ass” studio in Sweden to record an album, to be done in double quick time. … Continue reading
Book review: Decades – Focus in the 1970s (Stephen Lambe)
Sonicbond Publishing [Publication date 30.04.21] At the outset I should declare an interest. As an inveterate Focus-watcher since the early 1970s, author of articles about the band for Record Collector magazine, liner notes, and the first book about Jan Akkerman … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Focus, Focus In The 1970s, Jan Akkerman, Mike Vernon, prog, Progressive Rock, review, Stephen Lambe, Thijs van Leer
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Album review: SUITCASE SAM – Goodnight Riverdale Park
Pete Feenstra chatted to Suitcase Sam for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio in May 2021, playing tracks from the album ‘Goodnight Riverdale Park’ Curve Music [Release date 28.05.21] Suitcase Sam once described himself as: “The something else you are searching … Continue reading
Album review: ELIANA CARGNELUTTI – Aur
www.elianacargnelutti.com [Release date 07.05.21] When we saw Eliana at Giants Of Rock in January 2020 we would never have guessed that in the space of a few weeks live music famine would ensue. She apparently had breezed in last minute … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ana Popovic, Aur, blues rock, Eliana Cargnelutti, guitar, guitarist, R&B, review, rhythm & blues
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Album review: REFLECTION CLUB – Still Thick As A Brick
Madvedge Records [Release date 03.03.21] How do you out-Tull Jethro Tull? Well you put together an album pastiche and call it Still Thick As A Brick. Package it up in a large format digi-book and add in the ubiquitous 5.1 … Continue reading
Album review: HONEY AND THE BEAR – Journey Through The Roke
www.honeyandthebear.co.uk [Release date 23.04.21] East Anglian-based duo Lucy and Jon Hart, performing as Honey and The Bear, return with their second album. Like many musicians, especially on the folk circuit, they would normally have spent a lot of the past … Continue reading
Album review: DR FEELGOOD – Greatest Hits
Grand Records [Release date 02.04.21] This compilation marks the 50th anniversary of Dr Feelgood, the Canvey Island rhythm and blues maestros originally led by the incendiary guitarist Wilko Johnson and gravel-voiced frontman/harmonica player Lee Brilleaux. The band was at its … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Canvey Island, Dr Feelgood, Lee Brilleaux, r'n'b, review, Wilko Johnson
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Album review: ROBIN MCAULEY – Standing On The Edge
Frontiers [Release date 07.05.21] Robin McAuley has been very busy of late. Following on from his return stint with Michael Schenker he then went on to front the Black Swan project, joining Jeff Pilson and Reb Beach, who released the excellent ‘Shake The World’ … Continue reading
Album review: BLACK SPIDERS – Black Spiders
Cargo Records [Release date 26.03.21] Get those middle fingers raised and hail the return of the mighty Black Spiders! The band are back with most of the original line up in place and they are rocking as hard as ever. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Sabbath, Black Spiders, CD, Doom, FUBS!, metal, Pete Spiby, review, rock, Tiger Si, Wyatt Wendalls
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Album review: MOTORHEAD – Louder Than Noise… Live In Berlin
Silver Lining Music [Release date 23.04.21] High on my list of memorable gigs is a night spent with Motorhead at Newcastle City Hall back in November 2012. Motorhead were on top form that night and when you add in a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Ace Of Spades, album, Anthrax, Berlin, Lemmy, live, Louder Than Noise, metal, Mikkey Dee, Motorhead, Newcastle, Overkill, Phil Campbell, rock
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Album review: TRENTE – Aveugle & Sourd
Bad Reputation [Release date 02.04.21] Bringing new meaning to the saying “Les Trente Glorieuses”, unmistakeably French rock band, Trente, treat us to a reductive fusion of pop and rock, with Aveugle & Sourd (blind and deaf). Stating the obvious perhaps, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Aveugle & Sourd, Bad Reputation France, bonus track, Danny Vaughn, review, Trente, Tyketto
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Album review: FLESH & BLOOD – Blues For Daze (remaster w/ 2 bonus)
Bad Reputation France [Release date 05.03.21] Something of a Melodic Rock Supergroup, Flesh & Blood was put together in the early nineties by Touch/Drive She Said’s talented songwriter and producer, Mark Mangold. Tyketto’s Danny Vaughn and Al (TSO/Savatage) Pitrelli were … Continue reading
Album review: ED COSENS – Fortunes Favour
Distiller Records [Release date 09.04.21] Ed Cosens is the guitarist and one of the main songwriters in the Reverend and the Makers (one of the band’s former members Dave Sanderson appears on this album), a band who have been around … Continue reading
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Tagged 60s pop, album, Ed Cosens, Fortunes Favour, melodic, pop, Reverend and the Makers, review, Richard Hawley, rock
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Album review: STINGRAY (Remaster with bonus track)
Bad Reputation France [Release date 05.03.21] Enterprising French label, Bad Reputation, has been bringing some excellent new material to our attention recently. But for now we’ll focus on some classic blasts from the past, beginning with criminally overlooked South African … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Bad Reputation, Boston, melodic rock, REO Speedwagon, review, South Africa, Stingray, Styx
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Album review: TEMPLE BALLS – Pyromide
Frontiers [Release date 16.03.21] Despite the diabolically bad band name, Temple Balls’ popularity and reputation continue to grow. Produced by Jonah (HEAT) Tee, Pyromide is their third album. Their high energy melodic rock songs have a bright, brash ebullience. But … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Frontiers, H.E.A.T., Jonah Tee, melodic rock, Pyromide, review, Temple Balls
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