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Monthly Archives: July 2025
Album review: FIRST LIGHT – Elemental
Pride and Joy Music [Release Date 25.07.25] There are not enough British AOR bands around, so it is always a pleasure when one arrives with some pedigree. First Light released an EP a couple of years ago and, on top … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Carl Sharples, Dave Hardman, First Light, melodic rock, Phil Manchester, Warren Passaro
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Album review: BEN GRANFELT – It’s Personal
Pete Feenstra chatted to Ben Granfelt for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio playing tracks from the new album ‘It’s Personal’. First broadcast 27 July 2025. A1 Records [Release date 30.05.25] ‘Its Personal’ is Ben Granfelt’s 21st solo album and his … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Stewart, album, Ben Granfelt, blues, fusion, Gringos Locos, guitar, Guitar Slingers, interview, It's Personal, Jari Saminen, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, JJ Cale, Los Bastardos Finlandeses, Masa Maijanen, Pink Floyd, review, Robin Trower, rock, soul, Stoney Curtis, The Leningrad Cowboys, Wishbone Ash
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Album review : YESTERDAY & TODAY – S/T and Struck Down (Remasters)
Rock Candy Records [Release date 18.07.25] 1972 : In the days before they abbreviated to Y&T, they called themselves Yesterday & Today, after the Beatles’ latest US album release of the time, allegedly. The band line up got shuffled a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cream, Dave Meniketti, hard rock, review, Rock Candy Records, Struck Down, UFO, Y&T, Yesterday & Today
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News: BAD COMPANY, TRIVIUM, DAVID GILMOUR (August 2025)
AFI will release a new album, ‘Silver Bleeds The Black Sun…’, on October 3 via Run For Cover Records. Alcatrazz release ‘Prior Convictions’, an album of re-recorded songs plus two new songs, in November through BraveWords Records. The band plan to release … Continue reading
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Tagged albums, AOR, Bad Company, blues, David Gilmour, folk, gigs, melodic rock, metal, news, re-issues, RIP, special editions, tour dates, Trivium
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Gig review: WASP – 02 Academy, Glasgow, 25 July 2025
Some bands just seem to get things right from the very start. This may be down to them producing a set worth of songs that they then hone over many years playing pubs and clubs and building up a following … Continue reading
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Tagged 25 July 2025, Album One, Blackie Lawless, Blind In Texas, Chris Holmes, Doug Blair, gig, Glasgow, L.O.V.E Machine, live, metal, Mike Duda, O2 Academy, On Your Knees, rock, Tailgunner, WASP, Wild Child
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Album review: STAR CIRCUS – From The Wreckage
Renaissance Records [Release date 13.06.25] There’s a big debate going on about the use of AI and whether it compromises modern music making and musicians. After a lifetime of exposure to classic rock I for one am receptive. Time and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, From The Wreckage, melodic rock, review, Star Circus
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Album review : KIX – Kool Atomic Kix (8 CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date : 25.07.25] Something of a pop metal institution, KIX, the band, the brand, retired gracefully from the musicbiz in 2023, more than forty long years after the self titled debut album hit the streets. CD1 : … Continue reading
Album review: VOODOO RAMBLE – In The Heart Of The City
www.voodooramble.com [Release date 01.07.25] Slowly but surely over the past few years our Blues Rock/Features Editor Pete Feenstra has been supplying lyrics and melodic ideas to a number of significant artists in the current blues rock scene. This is Pete’s … Continue reading
Album review : THE BONESHAKERS – Live To Be This
Pete Feenstra chatted to Randy and Jenny for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio playing tracks from the new album. First broadcast 10 August 2025. Gulf Coast Records [Release date 18.07.25] It’s tempting to interpret The Boneshakers album ‘Live To Be … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, Betty Davis, Bobby Rush, Charlie Musselwhite, Coco Montoya, Don Was, Eddie Hinton, Iggy Pop, Jenny Langer, Jimmy carpenter, John Wooler, Lenny Castro, Mark Pender, Randy Jacobs, Ron Holloway, Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Boneshakers
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Album review : JIMMY WEBB – A Life In Words And Music (7 CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date : 25.07.25] By the time Jimmy Webb got to Phoenix he had won every conceivable music award, he’d written hit after hit after hit, most notably for The Fifth Dimension, Richard Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Glen Campbell … Continue reading
Album review : ENUFF Z’NUFF – Extra Cherries
Cleopatra [Release date : 25.07.25] Enuff Z’Nuff have released 6 albums in the last ten years. The latest, Extra Cherries is the 20th since the 1989 debut. The band, plagued by illness, worn down by constant touring, has seen members … Continue reading
Album review : CATS IN SPACE – Chapter 1 (Remastered 4 CD boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date 25.07.25] Now out of print, CIS’s first 4 sold out album releases have been dusted down and polished up by Cherry Red Records’ Tech experts. Chapter 1 is a 4CD clamshell, containing : CD1 : Too … Continue reading
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Tagged 10CC, Cats In Space, Daytrip to Narnia, Greg Hart, Mick Wilson, power pop, review, Scarecrow, Too Many Gods
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Gig review: STEVIE WONDER – British Summer Time, Hyde Park, London, 12 July 2025
(Photo: Isha Shah) Legend of soul, songwriter of countless hits, but why you may ask is Stevie Wonder being reviewed in a website dedicated to rock music? Well, many of the top singers in our world, from Glenn Hughes to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 July 2025, British Summer Time, BST, Corinne Bailey Rae, festival, funk, gig, Hyde Park, London, soul, Stevie Wonder
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Gig review: NEIL YOUNG AND THE CHROME HEARTS – British Summer Time, Hyde Park, London, 11 July 2025
With the exception of Bob Dylan, there aren’t many rock stars who can divide opinion quite as much as Neil Young. For every person (including some on this website) that cannot abide him, there are others who hang on the … Continue reading
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Tagged British Summer Time, BST, Cat Stevens, festival, folk rock, gig, grunge, Micah Nelson, Neil Young, Spooner Oldham, The Chrome Hearts, Van Morrison, Yusuf
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Album review: KILL THE ROBOT – S/t
Dark Lab Recordings [Release date 18.07.25] New band Kill the Robot, although main man Stephen Gibb has an impressive band CV including spells in Saigon Kick, Crowbar, Black Label Society and more. Oh, and his dad is Barry Gibb of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt rock, Barry Gibb, Bee Gees, Electronic Rock, gothic, indie rock, Kill the Robot, melodic, metal, Pink Floyd, review, Stephen Gibb
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Album review: ALICE COOPER – The Revenge Of Alice Cooper
EarMUSIC [release date 25.07.25] In much the same vein as Jake and Elwood Blues, Alice has decided to get the band back together, not sure he is on a mission from God though on this occasion! This album has brought … Continue reading
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Tagged 25th July 2025, album, Alice Cooper, Billion Dollar Babies, blues, Bob Ezrin, CD, Dennis Dunnaway, EarMusic, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Neal Smith, review, rock, Schools Out, The Blues Brothers, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper
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Album review : HONEYMOON SUITE – Wake Me When The Sun Goes Down
Frontiers Music [Release date : 25.07.25] Words to live your life by. As one who frequently mainlines on the band’s uncut 2006 Anthology, Feel It Again, a new Honeymoon Suite album is cause for celebration. Previous album, Alive was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Clifton Hill, Covid, Derry Grehan, Desmond Child, Honeymoon Suite, Johnny Dee, melodic rock, Mike Krompass, Mutt Lange, review
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Album review: FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – 20 Years Of Five Finger Death Punch – Best Of Volume 1
Better Noise Records [Release date 18.07.25] Over the past 20 years Five Finger Death Punch have become a band that can headline arenas and festivals worldwide, but world domination hasn’t come without it’s share of trials and tribulations. No matter … Continue reading
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Tagged 20 Years Of Five Finger Death Punch, album, Bad Company, Battle Born, Best of volume 1, Better Noise Records, CD, Five Finger Death Punch, Gone Away, In This Moment, Ivan Moody, Jason Hook, Maria Binks, metal, rock, Under and Over It, Zoltan Bathory
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Album review : SEALS & CROFTS – Gold and Rainbows – The Warner Bros Years 1969-78 (5-CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date : 18.07.25] Harmony rock and pop duo Seals and Croft’s biggest hit single came early on in their career. 1972’s ‘Summer Breeze’ (later covered by the Isley Brothers) was the title track from the duo’s fourth … Continue reading
Feature: Albums that time forgot…PIERRE MOERLEN’S GONG – Time Is The Key (1979)
Arista SPARTY 1105 (1979) When most people think of Gong they think of “Flying Teapot”, a quirky, idiosyncratic approach by long-time leader Daevid Allen and maybe Steve Hillage’s passage to wider attention. What sometimes gets overlooked are the later years … Continue reading
Album review : V/A – American Power Pop 1980-89 (3-CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date : 18.07.25] Almost 80 tracks over 3 CDs…the third and final volume of Eighties’ American Power Pop will be released on the Cherry Red label later this month. Once again it’s a treasure trove of material. … Continue reading
Gig review: BRAVE RIVAL – Dembe Theatre, Tring 4th July 2025
It often pays to respect and ‘support’ the support band and those that favour the bar tonight miss an excellent opening slot from the Lightning Threads. Formed back in 2019 the Sheffield based trio consist of Tom Jane (Guitar/Vocals) Sam … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th July 2025, blues rock, Brave Rival, Dembe Theatre, gig, Lightning Threads, Lindsey Bonnick, review, rock, Tring
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Album review: STYX- Circling From Above
Alpha Dog 2T/UMe (Release Date 18.07.25) While many ‘heritage’ classic rock acts on both sides of the pond have chosen to give up on writing new material and rely on their legacy catalogue, in recent years Styx have proved a … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, James 'JY' Young, Lawrence Gowan, melodic rock, pomp rock, Styx, Tommy Shaw, Will Evankovich
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Album review : DEGREED – The Leftovers
Frontiers [Release date 18.07.25] Only a year after their last full length studio album, Public Address, Degreed now release The Leftovers, a 9 track EP. The title is self explanatory, but there’s a negative connotation there, hinting that these tracks … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexi Laiho, American AOR, Degreed, Johnny Hates Jazz, melodic rock, Public Address, review, synthwave
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Single review: DAVID SINCLAIR 4 – (I Got) One Pair Of Hands
Critical Discs Cherry Red [Release date: 26.06.25] One of the often overlooked benefits of the avalanche in streaming services and the resultant constant release schedule, has been the return to releasing what were once called singles. And while vinyl has … Continue reading
