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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile)
Album review: THE JIVE ACES – Diggin’ The Roots Vol.1: Rockin’ Rhythm & Blues
Golden Age Recordings [Release date 23.06.17] The hi-energy, jump jive combo The Jive Aces have been around long enough to have been on Opportunity Knocks. But their chosen music predates even that show by several decades, as they raid the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Big Joe Turner The Big Town Playboys, blues, Cassidy Janson, Diggin' The Roots Vol.1: Rockin' Rhythm & Blues, Ian Clarkson, jive, John Fordham, Jump, Kit Packham Ray Gelato, Louis Jordan, Louis Prima, Red Prysock’, review, rockabilly, Ruth Brown, swing, The Chevalier Brothers, The Jive Aces, Vince Hurley, Wolfie Witcher
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EP review: SAINT APACHE – Wolf Machine
[Release date 21.07.17] Wolf Machine is a 4 track long EP, by alt-rock band Saint Apache. It is an absolutely solid entry into alt-rock, and could comfortably sit alongside other popular artists of the genre. The whole EP has a … Continue reading
Album review: KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND – Lay It On Down
Kenny Wayne Shepherd chatted to Pete Feenstra about his new album ‘Lay It On Down’. First broadcast 23 July on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. More information Provogue [Release date 04.08.17] When you sign a multi-album deal with Warner Brothers … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, country, funk, guitar, Jackson Brown, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Lay It On Down, Ledbetter Heights, Marshall Alltman, Nashville, Noah Hunt, R&B, review, rock, soul, Steve Stills, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Eagles, The Rides
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Quick plays: EMPIRE, LAST BULLET, TOM RUSSELL, DICK
EMPIRE The Raven Ride Pride & Joy Music [Release date 18.08.17] Pride & Joy Music continue their Empire re-issues and here we have the band’s third album which was originally released in 2006. Former Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin sang … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, country, Dangerous Dreams, Dick, Empire, folk, Folk Hotel, Juanita Stein, Last Bullet, metal, review, rock, Rolf Munkes, Tom Russell, Tony Martin
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Album review: INSATIA – Phoenix Aflame
Pitch Black Records. [Release date 23.06.17] This is a very accessible, well produced power/symphonic metal follow up to Insatia’s debut album ‘Asylum Denied’ in 2014. The band is based around vocalist and founder member Zoë Federoff. The album has been … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Insatia, Phoenix Aflame, Pitch Black Records, power metal, review, symphonic metal, Zoe Federoff
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Album review: MILES HUNT & ERICA NOCKALLS – We Came Here To Work
Good Deeds Records [Release date 09.09.17] I can’t say that I’m overly ‘au fait’ with The Wonder Stuff. They’ve always struck me as one of those ‘almost’ bands with a small but fanatical fan base, who – despite a number … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Erica Nockalls, Miles Hunt, pop, review, rock, The Wonder Stuff, We Came Here To Work
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Album review: THE SPIRITUAL MACHINES – Awake, Alert, Alive, almost
Would Work Sound [Release date 14.02.17] Sometimes reviewers can get lost underneath a sea of review copies waiting to be sorted, waiting for evaluation. They seek refuge in other music eras, rediscovering their lost youth, whilst avoiding the present. Anything … Continue reading
Album review: EDGUY – Monuments
Nuclear Blast [Release date 14.07.17] Edguy are celebrating their 25th anniversary in style with this 28 song compilation that has an added live CD and DVD. Edguy main man Tobias Sammet never does things by halves and there are five … Continue reading
Album review: BRUCE “MISSISSIPPI” JOHNSON – The Deal Baby
Self Release [Release date 26.05.17] Bruce ‘Mississippi’ Johnson is a singer with a colourful past. As his nick name suggests, he hails from Mississippi, and aside from being a marine, he learnt his craft in Paris with veteran B.B. King … Continue reading
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Tagged album, B.B. King, Barry White, Big Joe Turner, blues, Bruce "MIssissippi" Johnson, funk, Gil Scott-Heron, Herbie Hancock, Johan Dalgaard, Johnny Guitar Watson, Lou Rawls, Mississippi, review, Robert Cray, soul, The Deal Baby, vocals
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Album review: ALL 4 1 – The World’s Best Hope
Frontiers [Release date 07.07.17] All 4 1 are another Frontiers project, with this one overseen by Alessandro Del Vecchio, who produced the album as well as playing keys and co-writing a few songs. The band consists of half of Alliance (about time … Continue reading
Album review: CATS IN SPACE – Scarecrow
www.catsinspaceband.com [Release date 25.08.17] Cats In Space’s debut album ‘Too Many Gods’ was released in 2015 and rightly won the band many rave reviews. Since then they have toured supporting Thunder, done a joint headline tour with Space Elevator, appeared … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, album, Cats In Space, Greg Hart, melodic, Pilot, pomp, Queen, review, rock, Scarecrow, Sweet
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Album review: ELEANOR McEVOY – The Thomas Moore Project
MOSCODISC [Release date o4.08.17] First the history lesson – Thomas Moore was an 18/19th century Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer. Once celebrated, but largely overlooked today, Eleanor McEvoy looks to put that right by taking some of his best … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Eleanor McEvoy, folk, Irish, jazz, review, singer, songwriter, The Thomas Moore Project, Thomas Moore
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Album review: THE TANGENT – The Slow Rust Of Forgotten Machinery
Inside Out [Release date 21.07.17] When Andy Tillison, leader and founding member of the Prog Rock ensemble The Tangent, first started putting together material for his 2003 debut “The Music That Died Alone”, little did he know that what started … Continue reading
Album review: TEN – Gothica
Frontiers [Release date 07.07.17] Album number thirteen from the enduring melodic rockers Ten, which also sees them back on Frontiers in a multi-album deal. They have hit a purple patch these past few years, helped no doubt by the same line-up … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Gary Hughes, Gothica, John Halliwell, melodic, review, rock, Steve McKenna, TEN
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Album review: BITCHES SIN – Predator
Dissonance Formed in 1980, Bitches Sin were part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and have since issued a number of classic metal albums, including Invaders, Uduvudu, The Rapture and First Temptation. It’s a genuinely great catalogue. This, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bitches Sin, Dissonance, Heavy Metal Records, metal, NWOBHM, Predator, reissue. album, review, rock, Rodney Matthews
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Quick plays: MATISYAHU, DAVID RAMIREZ, MATTHEW LOGAN VASQUEZ
MATISYAHU Undercurrent Fallen Sparks/Thirty Tigers [Release date 19.05.17] Reggae, hip hop, rap and beatboxing. Four musical styles I’d cross the road to avoid. Period. Add in Orthodox Jewish themes, and Matisyahu should be a big no, no, no, no, NO. … Continue reading
Album review: CHRIS JAGGER – All The Best
BMG [Release date 01.09.17] “OK class, hands up who’s familiar with the works of Chris Jagger?” “Michael Eavis put your hand down, and take 100 lines: ‘I will put more rock acts on at Glasto”’. Yes, Chris Jagger ‘ Mick’s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, All The Best, Chris Jagger, compilation, David Gilmour, Mick Jagger, pop rock, review, Sam Brown
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Album review: BRYAN ADAMS – Wembley 1996 Live
Eagle Rock [Release date 30.06.17 ] Back in 1996 Bryan Adams was riding the crest of a wave, some might say a tsunami. The placement of ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It for You’ in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Bryan Adams, Melissa Etheridge, pop rock, review, rock, Wembley 1996 Live
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Album review: FICTION SYXX – Tall Dark Secret
MeldodicRock Records [Release date 21.08.17] Fiction Syxx is the brain child of songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Mark Allen Lanoue who has had these musical ideas for some time now. To help him realise his musical vision he is joined by guitarist JK Northrup (King … Continue reading
Album review: NICOLE ATKINS – Goodnight Rhonda Lee
Single Lock Records [Release date 21.07.17] Nicole Atkins returns with her fourth album and one recorded against a backdrop of personal issues as she stopped drinking and finding out her dad as lung cancer. Often such life changing events can … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Isaak, country, crooner, Goodnight Rhonda Lee, Nicole Atkins, pop, review, singer songwriter, soul
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Album review: PICTUREHOUSE – How Do I Explain How This Came To Be?
Vinyl/digital release This album is not so much a best of more a collection of songs, some previously unreleased, that PictureHouse recorded between 1995 and 1998. There are twelve songs in all, with a couple drawn from the ‘Shine Box’ (1996) and ‘Karmarama’ … Continue reading
Quick plays: SNAFU, BELL XI, ADRENALINE MOB
SNAFU Live Nottingham 1976 Angel Air www.angelair.co.uk [Release date 04.08.17] Snafu featured vocalist Bobby Harrison and guitarist Micky Moody amongst their ranks, although Micky Moody left the band shortly after the tour this gig was recorded from and joined Whitesnake. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrenaline Mob, album, Arms, Bell XI, blues, Bobby Harrison, Duane Forrest, indie pop, Live In Nottingham 1976, metal, Micky Moody, review, rock, Russell Allen, Snafu, Symphony X, The Climb, We Are The People
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Album review: LIONHEART – Second Nature
AOR Heaven [25.08.17] Blimey, it has been a few years since Lionheart last released an album – over thirty to be precise! Their sole studio album to date was 1984′s ‘Hot Tonight’, rightly revered among many rock fans. They split-up in 1986 with Dennis … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dennis Stratton, Iron Maiden, Lee Small, Lionheart, melodic, Praying Mantis, review, rock, Second Nature, Steve Mann
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Album review: THUNDERSTICK – Something Wicked This Way Comes
[Release date 28.07.17] There are few musicians as iconic in image as Barry Graham Perkis, aka Thunderstick, who originally found fame as the masked and caged drummer for NWoBHM band Samson. Previously a short lived drummer for Iron Maiden, he … Continue reading
Album review: THE ROLLING STONES – Live (Ladies And Gentlemen, Some Girls, Muddy Waters)
Eagle Records [Release date 16.06.17] Eagle Records are releasing several live CD’s from The Rolling Stones, each following their successful release on DVD. Each is taken from a different point in the band’s history and finds them at a high … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Checkerboard Lounge: Live in Chicago 1981, classic rock, Eagle Rock, Keith Richards, Ladies and Gentlemen, live, Mick Jagger, Muddy Waters, reissue, review, rock, Some Girls: Live in Texas’78, The Rolling Stones
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