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Album review : PERFECT PLAN – Heart Of A Lion

Frontiers Music [Release date : 28.02.25] With his fourth Perfect Plan album, Kent Hilli has truly deciphered the AOR code. Heart Of A Lion is a superb, beautifully crafted melodic rock recording, mixing keys and guitars in varying measures, creating … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Brother Firetribe, Frontiers, Kent Hilli, melodic rock, Perfect Plan, review, Survivor
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Album review : HUMBLE PIE – Hallelujah 1973-1983 (5 CD Boxset)

Cherry Red [Release date : 28.02.25] CD1 : Onto Victory (1980) CD2 : Go For The Throat (1981) CD3 : Pyramid Eye Chatanooga (live 1982) CD4 : Annie’s Club Cincinatti (live 1983) CD5 : Live At Winterland (1973) Initially comprising … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, Greg Ridley, Humble Pie, Iain McGonigal, Jerry Shirley, Peter Frampton, review, rock, soul, Steve Marriott, Uncut Magazine
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Album review : ROBIN MCAULEY – Soulbound

Frontiers Music [Released Date : 28.02.25] Third solo album on Frontiers from the much travelled rock singer Robin McAuley. His travels have all been well documented online. The worth repeating bits: He bookended his three album stint with Schenker in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldo Lonobile, Black Swan, Dave Wilson, Far Corporation, Frontiers, review, Robin McAuley, Schenker, Survivor
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Album review : MUD – The Rak Years 1973-75 (3 albums on 2 CDs)

Cherry Red [Release date : 14.02.25] There can be no doubt that Mud grabbed tight hold of the glam pop template, and tongue firmly in cheek, reshaped it in their own likeness. After several years of unsuccessful releases, the band, … Continue reading
Album review : THUNDERMOTHER – Dirty & Divine

Sweden’s Thundermother are back… female founded, hard nosed hard rock, with added cowbells. Now that guitarist/ band founder, Filippa Nasil has brought in new members, vocalist Linnea Vikström Egg and drummer, Joan Massing, the band are truly plugged into the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dirty, Divine, Fillipa Nasil, Heart, Joan Massing, Linnea Vikstrom Egg, review, rock, Runaways, Thundermother
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Album review : THE MAGIC FOREST – More Pastoral Psychedelia and Funky Folk 1968-75

Cherry Red [Release date : 31.01.25] When you come across a music genre called “Pastoral Psychedelia and Funky Folk” you just know it emanates from 1967, and the “Summer Of Love”. The years that followed witnessed the rise of hard … Continue reading
Album review : FAT MATTRESS – How Can I Live ? Complete Recordings (3 CD Boxset)

Cherry Red [Release date : 24.01.25] Two years in the career of an artist is only a moment in time. That’s how long English Rock Band, Fat Mattress lasted. During those years (1969-70) the band wrote and recorded three albums. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, boxset, Fat Mattress, folk, Jimi Hendrix, Love, Noel Redding, psychedelia, review, The Byrds
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Album review : BONFIRE – Higher Ground

Frontiers [Release date : 24.01.25] 18th studio album from Bonfire. First on Frontiers. Nowadays, the band is founder/leader, Hans Ziller, with Dyan Mair on vocals; Ronnie Parks and Fabio Alessandrini form a solid rhythm section and Frank Pane twins up … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bonfire, Claus Lessmann, Der Rauber, Frank Pane, Hans Ziller, Higher Ground, melodic hard rock, review, Ronnie Parks
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Album review : TIGERTAILZ – For A Few Dollarz More

Cherry Red [Release date 24.1.25] It didn’t take long for the Glam Rock genre, kicked off by Bolan and Bowie, to be appropriated by American bands like Motley Crue, Ratt, Cinderella and others. On the US west coast in the … Continue reading
Album review : LANDFALL – Wide Open Sky

Frontiers [Release date : 17.01.25] Third album from Brazilian melodic hard rock band, Landfall, founded by Felipe Souzza and Marcelo Gelbcke in 2014, and fronted nowadays by noted vocalist, Gui Oliver. It’s unquestionably an album of two halves. The band’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, Felipe Souza, Giu Oliver, hard rock, Landfall, Marcello Gelbcke, review, Wide Open Sky
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Album review : WILDNESS – Avenger

Frontiers [Release date : 17.01.25] By the numbers – fourth album from Swedish Melodic hard rock band, Wildness, third with “new” vocalist, Erik Forsberg, and second on the Frontiers label. The band was formed by drummer, Erik Modin in 2014, … Continue reading
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Tagged Avenger, Erik Forsberg, Erik Modin, melodic hard rock, review, Swedish, Wildness
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Album review : THE BIG DEAL – Electrified

Frontiers [Release date : 17.01.24] The Big Deal are one of the many bands that Frontiers’ A&R man, Alessandro Del Vecchio has nurtured over the years. All of them have benefited in some way from his presence . . . … Continue reading
Album review : THE HAMBURG REPERTOIRE, 2 CDs

Cherry Red [Release date : 10.01.25] It’s no exaggeration to say that popular culture in the UK – music, fashion, sexual mores, religion – experienced a revolution of mind, body and soul in the sixties. On of the prime … Continue reading
Album review : STATUS QUO – Driving To Glory

Cherry Red [Release date : 06.12.24] You’ve really got to hand it to whoever guides Status Quo through the pop and rock music jungle. Brilliantly marketed, with ads that hit all the right notes in the right places, Quo’s latest … Continue reading
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Tagged Cherry Red, Driving To Glory, ELO, Mike Paxman, pop, review, Rhino Edwards, Rick Parfitt, rock, Status Quo
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