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DISTRICT 97 – Trouble With Machines
Laser’s Edge This album shouldn’t work. In the blue corner we have a bunch of post-prog instrumental experimenters from Chicago. In the red corner is an American Idol Top 10 Female Finalist with a slightly nasal twang. However, the resulting … Continue reading
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REDLINE – Vice
Escape Music www.escape-music.com UK five piece whose debut album ‘Vice’ has a classic metal sound with an 80′s leaning and is not your normal fare of Escape Music. This is a strange album as the first … Continue reading
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CIRCLE II CIRCLE – Full Circle – Best Of
AFM RECORDS – Out Now Zachary Stevens is a man who should really need no introductions! Following a very sucessful stint as the frontman of the mighty Savatage between 1993 and 2000, he went on to create similarly impressive music … Continue reading
CATUVOLCUS – Gergovia
Deathbound Records (Release Date – Out Now) History tends to be littered with battles and brutality, especially where the Roman Legions are concerned, so the retelling of the Gauls’ battle against the Romans was never going to be … Continue reading
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VORPAL NOMAD – Hyperborea
Metalodic Records (Out Now ) The accompanying biog provided with this disc contains the lofty claim ‘ the best power metal CD you will ever hear’, so does it meet these high standards ? No is the simple … Continue reading
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QUICK PLAYS – Police Dog Hogan, Nicole Maguire
POLICE DOG HOGAN – From The Land Of Miracles As the name might perhaps suggest Police Dog Hogan are a rabid high-energy bunch – an eclectic seven-piece, combining fiddle, finger picking banj and mandolin, drums and guitars with four-part harmonies … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, folk, Nicole Maguire, Police Dog Hogan, review, rock, singer, songwriter
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THE GATHERING – Disclosure
I have to confess I’ve never tripped over The Gathering – a Dutch band who started out in 1989 pedalling death/doom metal, but who like the rest of us have mellowed with the passing years and evolved into something quite … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Disclosure, Dutch, electronica, Holland, prog, progressive, review, rock, The Gathering
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HEART – Fanatic
What the hell are Heart sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson on? The Lance Armstrong performance enhancement programme? It must be something with one hell of a kick, because they just aren’t sticking to the script. Artists who’ve been treading boards … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ann Wilson, Fanatic, Heart, music, Nancy Wilson, review, rock
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ROSCO LEVEE & THE SOUTHERN SLIDE – Final Approach To Home
Rosco Levee is only twenty eight but listen to this album with his band Southern Slide and you’d think he has been around much longer. What’s more amazing is that he is British yet the album sounds like a real … Continue reading
MOSTLY AUTUMN – The Ghost Moon Orchestra
Mostly Autumn are one of those bands who seem to consistently top the Championship, but never quite make promotion to the Premier League. Constant squad changes, and player rotation has perhaps not helped their cause, and there’s also that Pink … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bryan Josh, Iain Jennings, Mostly Autumn, music, Olivia Sparnen, prog, progressive, review, rock, The Ghost Moon Orchestra
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JON LORD – Concerto For Guitar And Orchestra
earMusic Rock and Classical music have long been awkward bed fellows. And while it’s over four decades since John lord first dipped his toes into the water to meld his Deep Purple organ licks with orchestral music, his ‘Concerto For … Continue reading
JEFFERSON STARSHIP – Roswell UFO Festival 2009
HST051CD Sprawled around a nebulous concept of a ‘Sci-Fi Extravaganza’ this overblown 4-CD set was recorded at the UFO Festival, Rosswell, New Mexico, and is a case of never mind the quality, feel the width. The Jefferson Starship line-up is … Continue reading
Album Review: SKINNY MOLLY – Haywire Riot
Ruf 1184 Skinny Molly’s ‘Haywire Riot’ is the album they have always threatened to make. It’s an excellent southern rock album with a bluesy feel, some lovely guitar tones, fine harmony singing and above all Mike Estes’s excellent songs. And … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Haywire Riot, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mike Estes, review, Skinny Molly
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JEFF LYNNE – Long Wave
Frontiers www.frontiers.it Nothing for years and then along comes a re-recorded best of E.L.O. and a solo album from Jeff Lynne on the same day. “Long Wave” is titled in tribute to the old radio shows that … Continue reading
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THE TRAGICALLY HIP – Now For A Plan A
www.thehip.com The Tragically Hip (or the Hip as they are called by their fans) return with their thirteenth album and they have been going since 1983. They are massive in their native Canada where nine of … Continue reading
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LOUDNESS – Eve To Dawn
Frostbyte Media (Release Date – Out Now) Eve To Dawn has been released to celebrate 30 years of Loudness. The Japanese rockers’ career peaked in the mid-eighties with the release of ‘Thunder In The East’ ,‘Lightning Strikes’ and … Continue reading
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KISS – Monster
Loud & Proud/Roadrunner I will admit I am not the world’s biggest Kiss fan but was mightily impressed by their last album ‘Sonic Boom’. Now we have ‘Monster’, an album which by the band’s own admission they have gone back … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric Singer, Gene Simmons, Kiss, Monster, Paul Stanley, Tommy Thayer
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PRIDE OF LIONS – Immortal
FRONTIERS RECORDS Bringing together ex Survivor keyboardist and songwriter to the stars Jim Peterik with relatively young singer Toby Hitchcock, Pride of Lions are something of a Marmite band in AOR circles. Among the many – myself included- who drooled … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Frontiers, Immortal, Jim Peterik, melodic rock, Pride of Lions, Survivor, Toby Hitchcock
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E.L.O. – Mr. Blue Sky – The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra
Frontiers www.frontiers.it Over the years there seems to have been literally hundreds of compilations calling themselves “best”, “essential”, “ultimate”…so what at first glance this appears to be yet another one…but no…the wonderful Mr Jeff Lynne has seen … Continue reading
BLACKBURNER – Planet Earth Attack
http://blackburner.org/ Blackburner is the brainchild of Skyla Talon who fuses industrial rock, prog and metal with genres such as electro, dubstep (the latest genre loved by Muse amongst others) along with drum and bass. He has previously worked on Rob … Continue reading
STEVE MILLER BAND – Reissues 1968-1970
Edsel Records [Release date: 08.10.12] This 5 album reissue of Steve Miller’s early career finds the future platinum recording artist fighting for artistic independence as he embraced west coast psychedelia. By the time of his debut recording, the band was … Continue reading
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Tagged 1968, 1969, 1970, album, Brave New World, Children Of the Future, Number 5, reissue, review, Sailor, Steve Miller, Steve Miller Band, Your Saving Grace
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FAIR PLAY(Leif Carlsson/Mats Sannetorp) – Fair Play
(Leif Carlsson/Mats Sannetorp) ‘Fair Play’ is an excellent guitar driven instrumental album that is as delightful as it is unexpected. Swedish hard rock and blues guitarist Mats Sannetorp and producer Leif Carlsson who doubles on keyboards and guitar, have built … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, Fair Play, fusionn, guitar, instrumental, Leif Carlsson, Mats Sannetorp, rock
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DEACON BLUE – The Hipsters
Edsel [Release date: 24.09.12] With Ricky Ross being a semi-permanent radio fixture it’s almost as if Deacon Blue have never been away. It’s something of a surprise therefore to discover that The Hipsters is only the band’s 6th studio album, … Continue reading
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MOTORHEAD – The World Is Ours Vol.2 – Anyplace Crazy As Anywhere Else
UDR/EMI – Release Date 24/9/2012 The world of Rock is full of passion and vice and has claimed a significant number of victims over the years – people whose resistance and ability to manage drugs and alcohol is incomparable to … Continue reading
NANCY JOHNSON – funF
Rocketboy Recordings www.nancyjohnson.co.uk Punk has always been about the ethos of doing it yourself and not worrying about over producing or even the musicianship (as the early Damned recordings show!). So when reviewing this UK based punk band’s debut album … Continue reading
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Tagged funF, Nancy Johnson, punk, punk pop
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