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Album review: CARL PALMER – Do Ya Wanna Play Carl? The Carl Palmer Anthology
Wienerworld [Released 24.03.14] This two disc set is a compilation of drummer Carl Palmer’s work (a different version and tracklist was released on the Sanctuary label back in 2001) and it covers his more well known bands like ELP and … Continue reading
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Tagged 3, album, anthology, Asia, Carl Palmer, compilation, Do ya Wanna Play Carl?, ELP, Quango, review
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Album Review: WINGER – Better Days Comin’
Frontiers Records [Release Date 21.04.14] Nearly five years after return to form album Karma, in which their activities have ranged from Kip Winger composing ballet scores to Reb Beach playing guitar in Whitesnake, Winger are back with another album, which … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Better Days Comin, hard rock, Kip Winger, Reb Beach, review, rock, Rod Morgenstein, Winger
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Album review: MORBUS CHRON – Sweven
Century Media – Out Now. Death, Autopsy, Voivod, Darkthrone. These are names that have helped shape the history and character of extreme Metal throughout the decades and whose music has and continues to influence hundreds, if not thousands, of young … Continue reading
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Album review: NERVOSA – Victim Of Yourself
Napalm Records – Out Now. Press releases are like propaganda leaflets: they allow you quick access to information otherwise unattainable, but by nature they are massively biased and their accuracy questionable. Normally I try not to pay much attention to … Continue reading
Album review: HAT FITZ & CARA ROBINSON – Do Tell
Manhaton [Release date 12.05.14] Formerly just Hat Fitz and Cara, Irish singer Cara Robinson now gets a full name check alongside her Australian partner Hat Fitz on ‘Do Tell’, an album of well crafted songs brought to life by a … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, Cara Robinson, Do Tell, folk, Hat Fitz, Howlin Wolf, Jason Bunn, Jeff Lang, Magie Bell, review, roots
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Album review: STREETWALKERS – Live At Rockpalast
Repertoire [Release date 24.01.14] ‘Streetwalkers – Live At Rockpalast’ is a CD & DVD audio-visual diary of the origins of a great live band. Originally called Chapman -Whitney Streetwalkers, the first Rockpalast concert shot in Koln on 25 March 1975 is … Continue reading
Album review: THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT – The Complete Albums Collection
The Alan Parsons Live Project, news, interview, radio feature (February 2015) Sony Legacy [Release date 31.03.14] Alan Parsons almost redefined the idea of the concept album in 1976. Parsons was famously the assistant engineer at Abbey Road and got his … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Parsons, Ammonia Avenue, box, boxed set, Chris Rainbow, Colin Blunstone, Eric Woolfson, Eve, Eye In The Sky, Gaudi, I Robot, Pyramid, Stereotomy, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, The Alan Parsons Project, The Complete Albums Collection, The Sicilian Defence, The Turn Of A Friendly Card, Vulture Culture
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Quick plays: TOM FULLER BAND, BRIGITTE DEMEYER, P.J.PACIFICO, MARY SARAH
TOM FULLER BAND Freedom The last, and third, album from the Chicago based Tom Fuller Band – Ask (2011) was a mixed affair. Radio friendly American rock packed with echoes of many of the greats – an unlikely combination The … Continue reading
Album review: ZOLTAR SPEAKS – Save As I Save
Self-release ( Release date 14.04.14) This is the debut album from Somerset based Zoltar Speaks who are named after the fortune telling machine encountered by Tom Hanks in the 80’s film ‘Big’. Featuring the vocals of Louise Body, the band … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Avenged Sevenfold, Big, CD, Evanescence, Louise Body, metal, review, rock, Save As I Save, Somerset, Thrash, Tom Hanks, Zoltar Speaks
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Album review: WINTER DAWN – By Embers Embraced
Self Release (Release date – out now) Symphonic metal is a genre that can either delight me or distress me. I can usually tell how things are going to go within the first couple of minutes of the opening track … Continue reading
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Tagged album, By Embers Embraced, CD, Hilda Geber, Johan Uvesten, review, Robin Lindblad, rock, Simon Lindblad, Sweden, symphonic metal, Winter Dawn
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Album review: KLOGR – Blacksnow
Zeta Factory (Release date – Out now) Blacksnow is the second album release by Italian alt-rockers Klogr. Their first album, ‘Till You Decay’, was released back in 2011 and gained some good press. Since then the band have been touring … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt rock, Blacksnow, CD, Italy, Klogr, metal, review, rock, Rusty, Tool
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Album review: WOLAND – Hyperion
Indie Recordings – Out Now. The start of 2014 has been quite exciting as far as new music is concerned as most of the albums I have been asked to review have been by bands whose work I have never … Continue reading
Album review: INCURA – Incura
Inside Out – Out Now. Canadian quintet Incura I have only just discovered, through their same-titled debut release, but the fact that they are releasing this work under the moniker of Inside Out was enough to make me jump up … Continue reading
Album review: HIRAX – Immortal Legacy
Steamhamer/SPV – Out Now. When you think of the San Francisco Thrash Metal scene, the very first band name that springs to mind is that of Metallica, closely followed by Exodus and Slayer. It takes a pretty knowledgeable and devoted … Continue reading
Album review: GAZPACHO – Demon
Kscope – Out Now. The description by a well respected UK Rock magazine of Gazpacho as “Norway’s best kept Prog secret” is one that truly baffles me, not because I do not share the enthusiasm and excitement for the music … Continue reading
Quick plays: MAD MARGRITT, NASTY CRUE, HOTCAKES
MAD MARGRITT Show No Mercy (Perris Records) “Show No Mercy” is the latest album from Atlanta’s Mad Margritt and coming six years since last release “Animal”, the album picks up nicely where that left off. Only nine tracks in length, … Continue reading
Album review: HER NAME IS CALLA – Navigator
Function [Release date 05.05.14] ‘Navigator’ by Her Name Is Calla, is a cerebral and emotional work of substance. You may need patience and understanding to get inside Tom Morris’ songs and his vocal enunciations with electronic edges, but you will … Continue reading
Album review: BRAINSTORM – Firesoul
AFM Records www.afmrecords.com [Released 07.04.14] Well these guys have most definitely passed me by…Brainstorm are a German metal band from the Swabia region of Bavaria (deep south in other words) and Firesoul is actual their 10th studio release! Formed way … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Brainstorm, Firesoul, metal, power metal, review
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Album review: DEBORAH BONHAM – Spirit
Deborah Bonham, track by track, May 2014 (Part 1 10:43, Part 2 11:43) Spectra [Release date 28.04.14] Being part of the Bonham dynasty is both a blessing and a curse for Deborah Bonham. Stripped of her family tree, she would … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana, Bad Company, BJ Cole, Deborah Bonham, Fleetwood Mac, Glenn Skinner, John Prine, Led Zeppelin, Mavericks, Mike Poole, Patty Griffin, Paul Rogers, Pete Bullick, review, Robert Plant, Spaklehorse, Spirit, Tom Petty
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Album Review: LUDER – Adelphophagia
Small Stone Records Luder. Little known, I suspect, outside knots of die hard progressive metal afficionados. This album should broaden the band’s appeal. It offers nine creative, convincing, eclectic compositions that draw, by turns, on waves of psychedelia and stoner, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adelphophagia, album review, CD, Luder, metal, prog metal, Small Stone Records
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Album Review: ALBERT LEE & HOGAN’S HEROES – Frettening Behaviour
Heroic Records Veteran country-rock stalwart Albert Lee has hooked up with his UK-based band Hogan’s Heroes to release a collection of classy covers and decent new material. Whilst there’s an easy listening feel to much of the arrangement and production, … Continue reading
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Tagged ALBERT LEE, album review, CD, country rock, Frettening Behaviour, guitarist, HOGAN’S HEROES
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Album review: Album review: THORBJØRN RISAGER & THE BLACK TORNADO – Too Many Roads
Ruf [Release date 21.03.14] This is arguably the most original and impressive blues related album since Moreland & Arbuckle ‘7 Cities’ last summer. Denmark’s Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado have cut a blues related album in the sense of it … Continue reading
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Tagged David Clayton-Thomas, Emil Balsgaard, J.J. Cale, John Campbell, Lea Thorlann, Martin Seidelin, Moreland & Arbuckle, Nat King Cole, Pia Trojgaard, Ray Charles, review, Rolling Stones, Ruf, Thorbjorn Risager &The Black Tornado, Tom Waits, Too Many Roads
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CD review: MARCUS MALONE – Stand Or Fall
Redline Music [Release date 21.04.14] ‘Stand Or Fall’ might easily have used the opening cut ‘Living The Blues’ as its title. For while his last album ‘Let The Sunshine In’ was a noticeably more song driven effort, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Company, Berry Gordy Jr., Bill Burke, Bo Diddley, Chantelle Duncan-Heath, Chris Nugent, Dani Wilde, Enoo William-Uffort, Julian Burdock, Marcus Malone, Moz Gamble, Paul Rogers, review, Roger Cotton, Sean Nolan, Stand Or Fall, Stuart Dixon, Traffic, Will Wilde, Winston Blissett
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DVD review: BRIAN MAY & KERRY ELLIS – The Candlelight Concerts: Live At Montreux 2013
Eagle Vision [Released 31.03.14] Queen’s Brian May and West End singer Kerry Ellis have been doing a series of well received concerts by candlelight (their 2012 UK tour makes up the CD part of this DVD/CD set) and they played … Continue reading
Album Reviews: NINE BELOW ZERO – Don’t Point Your Finger/Third Degree
The two most successful albums on Nine Below Zero’s early roster have been reissued and come in expanded packages with loads of live material, alternative versions and informative liner notes. ‘Don’t Point Your Finger’ is classic British r’n’b to its … Continue reading
