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Album review : STATUS QUO – The Early Years Vol 2 (1970-72) 5 CD Boxset
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Quick plays: JUNIPER, ADY JOHNSON, ADAM BEATTIE
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Album review: ALBERT CASTIGLIA – Grits & Glory
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Album review : NINA ANTONIA AND THE LUNAR MOTHS – Dropping Like Butterflies
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Album review – PALLAS – The Midas Touch Boxset (8CDs+DVD)
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Album review: THE WESTERN FRONT – Eureka
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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS
Album review : STATUS QUO – The Early Years Vol 2 (1970-72) 5 CD Boxset
Cherry Red [Release date : 03.07.26] Status Quo’s past, present and future promise seemed to be crammed in to 3 short years, 1970-72. In their early years, for what turned out to be one of the UK’s most durable bands, … Continue reading
Quick plays: JUNIPER, ADY JOHNSON, ADAM BEATTIE
JUNIPER Halfway Home [Release date 14.05.26] Juniper are a six piece folk band hailing from Birmingham consisting of Dominic O’Sullivan (whistles, clarinet, flute), Emily Hicks (flute), Anna Vaughan (violin), Harry Thorpe (vocals, guitars), Adam Hammond (drums) and Rob Roberts (bass). The … Continue reading
Album review: ALBERT CASTIGLIA – Grits & Glory
Gulf Coast Records [Release date 10.07.26] Which came first the music or the album title? Either way, ‘Grits & Glory’ is an excellent rock-blues record forged by the sort of perseverance, determination and will to succeed alluded to in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Castiglia, album, Bill Murray, blues, British blues, Cliff Moore, Dave Gross, funk, Graham Wood Drout, Grits & Glory, John Lennon, Johnny Winter, Junior Wells, Mike Zito, Mongo Santamaria, Ray Hangen, review, rock, soul
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Album review : NINA ANTONIA AND THE LUNAR MOTHS – Dropping Like Butterflies
Creation Youth [Release date 26.06.26] Released via Alan McGee’s Creation Youth imprint, this is the first album from Antonia, an acclaimed English author, and it arrives with strong countercultural credentials and a clear commitment to literary ambition. The problem is … Continue reading
Album review – PALLAS – The Midas Touch Boxset (8CDs+DVD)
Cherry Red [Release date : 26.06.26] Once upon a time there were two bands called Rainbow. Ritchie Blackmore won the toss, and the other changed their name to Pallas. This was 1974. Two years ago Cherry Red released a 6CDs … Continue reading
Album review: THE WESTERN FRONT – Eureka
Music Theories Recordings [Release date 10.07.26] It’s hard to believe that in the early 1980s – following personal hiatus and Thin Lizzy’s final tour – Scott Gorham made a distinctly AOR album. Although we shouldn’t forget that in classic Lizzy … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Eureka, Marty Walsh, melodic rock, review, Scott Gorham, The Western Front
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Album review: HARD-FI – Sweating Someone Else’s Fever
V2 Records [Release date 19.06.26] It seems only like yesterday that Hard-Fi made a big splash with their debut album, ‘Stars of CCTV’, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. Where does the time go?! Hard-Fi called it a day … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt pop, alt rock, dance, Hard Fi, indie, Latino, review, Richard Archer, soul, Sweating Someone Else’s Fever
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Album review : BURNING ROPE – Dissolution
Self Release [Release date : 29.05.26] ‘Dissolution’ is an album which diligently works its way round the theme of broken relationships, with plenty of musical variety (rock, prog, funk and blues), tough riffs and emotionally honest songs. It’s a notable … Continue reading
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Tagged 10CC, Adam Pyke, album, Alex Voysey, blues, Burning Rope, Dissolution, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, funk, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Kate Bush, Mitch Weaving, Paul Long, prog, review, rock, Stray
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Album review : MASTERPLAN – Metalmorphosis
Frontiers Music [Release date : 26.05.26] There’s power metal bands and there’s Masterplan. Never getting the credit they deserve. It began life as a splinter group. Founders, Uli Kusch and Roland Grapow were originally a key part of Helloween, leaving … Continue reading
Album review: DANNI NICHOLLS – Making Moves
Astrorama Records [Release date 26.06.26] Danni Nicholls is a British-born, Nashville based alt.country, singer-songwriter rooted in Americana. What sets her aside from blander elements of Nashville is her willingness to go deep lyrically and explore vulnerability as part of the process … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt.county, Americana, blues, Danni Nicholls, folk, Joni Mitchell, Making Moves, review, Sarah Peacock, singer, songwriter
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Album review : NAZARETH – Born Under The Wrong Sign (5 CD Boxset, 1976-79)
Cherry Red [Release date : 26.06.26] The seventies were Classic Rock’s golden years. And this boxset is rock ‘n’ roll gold. Five remastered Nazareth albums from 1976-1979. With an abundance of bonus tracks. CD1 : Close Enough For Rock ‘n’ … Continue reading
Album review: CARL CARLTON & MELANIE WIEGMANN – Miles Of Time
Pete Feenstra chatted to Carl Carlton and Melanie Wiegmann for his Feature show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. This is an edited version of the show first broadcast 14 June 2026. Timezone [Release date 23.01.26] ‘Miles of Time’ is … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Carl Carlton, interview, John Prine, John Sebastian, Keb Mo, Levon Helm, Luther Dixon, Max Buskohl, Melanie Wiegmann, Miles of Time, Peter Wolf, radio, Ray Davies, review, Van Morrison, Will Jennings
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Album review: Ritchie Blackmore’s RAINBOW – Live In Dusseldorf (3-LP vinyl)
Demon/Edsel [Release date 26.06.26] The second (after Cologne) of three live albums recorded in Germany 1976, Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow were promoting their Rainbow Rising LP to huge acclaim. The three albums were originally issued as double CDs a few years … Continue reading
Album review: SAMANTHA FISH – Paper Doll Live
Rounder Records [Release date 12.06.26] Move over Live And Dangerous, and Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out there is a new contender for best live album ever, and it comes in the form of a female resident of Kansas City, Samantha … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, guitarist, Paper Doll Live, review, Samantha Fish
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Album review : MATTADOR – III
Frontiers Music [Release date : 19.06.26] Mattador are a Puerto Rican melodic rock band who were on the up and up, 1988 to 1995. They released two albums and toured with top bands like Aerosmith and Iron Maiden. Then they … Continue reading
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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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
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
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
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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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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