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Album review: MY PET ROCKET – Last of the Analogue Superheroes
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Album review : LYNCH MOB – The Final Ride (Live)
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Album review : THORBJORN RISAGER & THE BLACK TORNADO – Live At Hotel Cecil
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Album review: MY PET ROCKET – Last of the Analogue Superheroes
Facebook [Release date 26.06.26] Regulars on the west Scotland rock scene My Pet Rocket release their first album Last Of The Analogue Superheroes, and as well as the cover and the title, it carries a spacey/futuristic view of the world. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blondie, Cheap Trick, Last of the Analogue Superheroes, melodic, My Pet Rocket, pop rock, power pop, punk, review, rock
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Album review : LYNCH MOB – The Final Ride (Live)
Frontiers Music [Release date : 29.05.26] George Lynch was always known for his incendiary axework in a live setting. Never straying too much from the album the song came from, but adding enough to make it seem fresh and new. … Continue reading
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Tagged Frontiers Music, Gabriel Colon, George Lynch, hard rock, Jimmy Danda, live, Lynch Mob, review
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Album review : VANDEN PLAS – AcCult II
Frontiers Music [Release date 12.06.26] Some 30 years after the band’s Accult album, Vanden Plas follow through with their long promised second all acoustic effort. Stating the obvious perhaps, but the real test of a band is its ability to … Continue reading
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Tagged AcCult II, acoustic, Andreas Lill, Andy kuntz, Frontiers Music, metal, review, Stephan Lill, VANDEN PLAS
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Gig review: THE WILDHEARTS – Tolbooth, Stirling, 30 May 2026
Ginger Wildheart is an unstoppable force. Faced with his recent cancer diagnosis, he has taken the decision to say ‘f*ck that!’ and has vowed to rock for as long as he can physically stand on a stage. Music has always … Continue reading
Album review : THORBJORN RISAGER & THE BLACK TORNADO – Live At Hotel Cecil
Provogue Records [Release date 19.06.26] Recorded in their home town of Copenhagen, Thorbjorn Risager & The Black Tornado’s ‘Live At Hotel Cecil’ is a superb album on which they reclaim blues as exciting, lyrically strong and musically adventurous. They draw on … Continue reading
Gig review: SISTERS DOLL- Cart and Horses, London, 4 June 2026
Aussie melodic glam rockers Sisters Doll have been around for a while, their first album released as long ago as 2012, but over the past year or two seem to be making a concerted effort to break the UK. I’d … Continue reading
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Tagged Brennan Mileto, Cal Wymann, Cart and Horses, Cedric Pfister, Daxx and Roxane, gig, glam rock, melodic rock, Sister's Doll
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Album review : SPREAD EAGLE – The Brutal Divine
Frontiers Music [Release date : 12.06.26] This is US rock band, Spread Eagle’s fourth album in 25 years, and second album on the Frontiers’ label, not very hard on the heels of 2019’s rather good Subway To The Stars. Ray … Continue reading
Single review: BLACKLIST UNION – Jackson
Website/BLU Records This is exactly what you need for the summer, a great punked up reimagination of the Johnny Cash classic “Jackson”, and what a great version this is. With Blacklist Union frontman Tony West and Femme Fatale’s Lorraine Lewis … Continue reading
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Tagged Blacklist Union, country, Femme Fatale, hard rock, Jackson, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Lorraine Lewis, punk, review, rock, single, Tony West
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Album review: HOLLIE ROGERS – Everything’s Fine
Website [Release date 05.06.26] Acclaimed singer-songwriter Hollie Rogers is back with her latest album ‘Everything’s Fine’. Hollie has been releasing music for over a decade now, however, on this album she’s given it her all and there are a number … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Beth Nielsen Chapman, blues, Elles Bailey, Everything’s Fine, Hollie Rogers, melodic, pop, review, rock, soul
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Album review: JASON RICCI & THE BAD KIND with Kaitlin Dibble – 13 Hours
Gulf Coast Records [Release date 29.05.26] ’13 Hours’ is Jason Ricci’s 3rd album for Gulf Coast (possibly his 15th in all) and his second credited with partner Kaitlin Dibble, an expressive vocalist and fine songwriter. It’s an honest, balanced and well … Continue reading
Gig review: BETH HART – New Theatre, Oxford, 4 June 2026
A few gaps in the crowd tonight as the gig was rescheduled from May 22 with some fans sadly unable to make the new date. Regardless, we knew we were in for a special evening of music, especially given the … Continue reading
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Tagged 4 June 2026, beth Hart, blues, blues rock, gig, jazz, New Theatre, Oxford, review, rock, soul, wille and the bandits
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Album review: RANDOM EARTH PROJECT – Songs of Plenty
Self release [Release date 13.04.26] What’s in a name? In the case of Random Earth Project, the project part finds echoes of Frank Zappa’s Project / Object idea, with various elements being interrelated in the search for artistic unity On … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, Andrew Walker, Arcade Fire, Camel, Carleton Van Selman, Dave Cousins, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Glen Buck, Howard Werth, Kim Cypher, Kym Cypher, Mark Howes, Martin Nico, Pink Floyd, prog, Random Earth Project, symphonic, Trev Turley
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EP Review : THE 69 EYES – I Survive
BLKIIBLK Records [Release Date : 05.06.26] The world’s longest lasting glam/rock/goth band, the 69 Eyes, have been going for more than than 30 years, with the same personnel. Must be doing something right. The aptly titled I Survive is a … Continue reading
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Tagged BLKIIBLK, EP, Finnish, Glam/ Goth/ Rock, Jyrki69, review, The 69 Eyes
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Album review: CARL CARLTON & MELANIE WIEGMANN – Miles Of Time
Timezone [Release date 23.01.26] ‘Miles of Time’ is the second album by Americana style German duo of Carl Carlton and Melanie Wiegmann. Carlton is an experienced singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (Robert Palmer, Herman Brood, Udo Lindenberg,The Songdogs, Manfred Mann, Eric … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bobby Charles, Carl Carlton, Jerry Jeff Walker, John Prine, John Sebastian, Joni Mitchell, Keb Mo, Leiber & Stoller, Levon Helm, Max Buskohl, Melanie Wiegmann, Peter Wolf, Ray Davies, review, Rick Danko, The Band, Van Morrison, Will Jennings
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Album review: THE GREIG TAYLOR BAND – Take A Left
Facebook [Release date 12.04.26] The opening diiirty diiirty blues notes of this album got me, like being a fish swimming around quite happy minding my own business, then I see a big wiggly worm on the horizon, I can’t resist, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Green, album, Band Take A Left, blues, blues rock, Greig Taylor, Ray Charles, review, rock, The Greig Taylor
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Album review: LEONI JANE KENNEDY – Synthetic
www.leonijanekennedy.com [Release date 15.06.26] Andy Sharrocks commented, reviewing the fourth single of 2025 ‘Sloe’, “it kind of goes nowhere”. That track is included here on Leoni’s second album ‘Synthetic’ which is essentially a collection of those singles. She has a … Continue reading
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Album review: THIRSTY QUIREBOYS – God Bless America: The Best Of Thirsty
Website [Release date 05.06.26] The band Thirsty were formed in 2014 by former (and founder) Quireboys guitarist Guy Bailey, and over the next decade released three albums. With lyrical help from Russian poet Irina D, there was a different feel … Continue reading
Gig review: CHEZ KANE- Camden Underworld, London, 24 May 2026
The release of Chez Kane’s third album ‘Reckless’ has seen her most sustained burst of touring activity in the UK yet. Only a couple of months after some acoustic promotional shows (which this website reviewed in Kingston) was an … Continue reading
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Tagged Chez Kane, Dave Winkler, female fronted, gig, Harry Scott Elliott, James Ready, melodic rock, Oscar Charlton, Star Circus
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Album review : QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE – Who Do You Love? The Recordings 1967-1972 (7CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date 29.05.26] Quicksilver Messenger Service – yet another of the “summer of love”s musical heroes – bubbles back to the classic rock surface. These are the real heroes, an authentic rock band who, for better or worse, … Continue reading
Album review: W.A.S.P. – The Seven Savage 1984-1992
Madfish [Release date 17.01.26] Formed in LA in 1982 by guitarist and vocalist Blackie Lawless, W.A.S.P. have been going strong for over 40 years and still producing some excellent metal. A little rough and raw, but they’ve rocked hard and … Continue reading
Gig review: THE KARMA EFFECT – The Fighting Cocks, Kingston upon Thames, 21 May 2026
The Karma Effect’s main tour is later this year but, with the release of third album ‘Cruel Intentions’ came a limited number of album launch shows including this one in Kingston, also home of Banquet Records who do a remarkable … Continue reading
Single review: SHARON LAZIBYRD – Quand je vois le Monde
Website [Release date 29.05.26] Sharon Lazibyrd as been on the GRTR! musical radar for some years now and it was a pleasant surprise to receive an advance listen to this song, ‘Quand je vois le Monde’, the second single from … Continue reading
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Tagged folk, melodic, Quand je vois le Monde, review, Sharon Lazibyrd, singer songwriter, single, Tides Keep Turning
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Album review : MARTIN PAGE – The First And Last Freedom
IroningBoard Records [Release date 01.04.26] On his 11th album now, successful songwriter (‘These Dreams’, ‘We Built This City’, ‘King Of Wishful Thinking’ and many more) Martin Page’s softly softly approach to his own material remains untouched. He tells us : … Continue reading
News: JACK J HUTCHINSON, KAMELOT, SALIVA (June 2026)
Audrey Horne release their latest album ‘Achilles’ through Napalm Records on September 4, with ‘Insanity’ released as the first single on June 11. The Bites release their new, self-titled, album on September 18 through Earache Records. Metalville is reissuing of … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, blues, folk, gigs, Jack J. Hutchinson, Kamelot, melodic rock, metal, news, re-issues, RIP, Saliva, special editions, tour dates
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Album review : BRIAN ROBERTSON – Diamonds And Dirt (2 CD Reissue)
Cherry Red [Release date 29.05.26] Scottish guitarist/ songwriter Brian Robertson played on what were arguably Thin Lizzy’s top 5 studio albums. Over a four year period, 1974-78, he contributed as guitarist and co-writer with Phil Lynott on Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak, … Continue reading
