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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile)
Album review: TREAT- Ghost Of Graceland
Frontiers Records [Release date 15.04.16] One of the pioneers, alongside the more famous Europe, of the definitive Scandinavian sound, Treat’s 2010 return ‘Coup de Grace’ features prominently in many lists of the best melodic rock albums of the last decade. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ghost of Graceland, melodic rock, review, Robert Ernlund, Scandinavia, Sweden, Treat
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Album review: THE DEFIANTS – The Defiants
Frontiers Records [Release Date 15.04.16] The Paul Laine era of Danger Danger, where the Canadian singer kept the flag flying during the wilderness years before the charismatic Ted Poley returned, is often unfairly neglected, not least in the band’s own … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bruno Ravel, Danger Danger, Defiants, Frontiers Records, melodic rock, Paul Laine, review, Rob Marcello
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Album review: ELIZA NEALS – Breaking and Entering
In this special hour-long feature, first broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Pete Feenstra chats to Eliza Neals about her music. E-H Records [Release date 20.02.15] ‘Breaking And Entering’ is a rip roaring rock/blues album with plenty of musical … Continue reading
Album review: LOS PACAMINOS – Reissues
LOS PACAMINOS A Fistful Of Statins/The Early Years Recdo Records [Release date 06.05.16] Los Pacaminos I remember seeing live a few years ago at the Borderline and they played an enjoyable, high energy show. The band play a mix of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Fistful Of Statins, album, Jamie Moses, live, Los Pacaminos, Paul Young, review, Ry Cooder, Tex Mex, The Early Years
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Album review: EPIC – Like A Phoenix
Escape Music www.escape-music.com [Release date 22.04.16] Never judge a book (or in this case CD) by its cover, as the band’s name Epic and cover artwork on this album may have you expecting a power or melodic metal album. It … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, epic, Escape Music, Heart, Like A Phoenix, melodic, review, rock, Witness
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Album review: HAKEN – Affinity
Inside Out www.insideout.de [Release date 29.04.16] Haken return with their fourth album and have a high bar to reach after their last album, the excellent ‘The Mountain’. The album also marks the first full length studio album to feature new-ish … Continue reading
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Tagged 80's prog, Affinity, album, Haken, Inside Out, LEPROUS, progressive, review, rock, Ross Jennings
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Album review: ORDEN OGAN – The Book of Ogan
AFM Records [Release date 25.03.16] “The Book of Ogan” would appear to be German power metal band Orden Ogan’s way of closing the first chapter of their career as it is a very impressive double CD double DVD package. What … Continue reading
Album review: KANSAS – Always Never The Same
Store For Music www.storeformusic.com An album overlooked in the Kansas catalogue being originally released back in 1998, three years after their last studio album ‘Freaks Of Nature’. I remember reading an interview back at that time where drummer Phil Ehart … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Always Never The Same, classic, Kansas, orchestral, Phil Ehart, prog, re-issue, review, rock, Steve Walsh, the Store For Music
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Quick plays: CALLING ALL ASTRONAUTS, JOANA SERRAT, JAMES McARTNEY, DIRTY ACTION
CALLING ALL ASTRONAUTS Anti-Social Network This is Calling All Astronauts’ second album and they have been around since 2012, consisting of David B (vocals/programming), J Browning (guitars) and Paul McCrudden (bass). Musically they cover goth, rock, electro and certainly have … Continue reading
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Tagged albums, alternative, Americana, Billy Idol, Calling All Astronauts, country, Dhani Harrison, Dirty Action, glam, goth, James McCartney, Joana Serrat, Quick Play, reviews, rock, singer songwriter, Sisters Of Mercy, sleaze, The Blackberry Train
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Album review: BEHOLDER – Reflections
Razorline [Release date 12.04.16] Since 2003 Beholder have been tearing venues up all around the country. The band from the UK Midlands have been flying the flag for British Heavy Metal and Progressive Metal in the underground scene amassing a … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Beholder, Gojira, Mastodon, metal, Progresive, progressive metal, Reflections, review, uk
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Album review: OYSTERBAND – This House Will Stand Best Of 1998-2015
Navigator Records [Release date 27.05.16] This is a 2CD, 29 song collection from the Oysterband covering their latter day output from 1998 to the present day. They started out back in 1977/78 as the Oyster Ceilidh Band before morphing into … Continue reading
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Tagged 1998-2015, album, best of, folk, June Tabor, Navigator Records, Oysterband, political, review, This House Will Stand, traditional
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Album review: EDU FALASCHI – Moonlight
Test Your Metal Records [Release date 20.05.16] I’ve been a passing fan of Angra a long time, but I would never call myself a diehard or super knowledgeable about them. What songs/albums I have heard I always enjoyed, but were … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Almah, ANGRA, Edu Falaschi, metal, Moonlight, power metal, review
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Album review: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
AFM Records [Release date 20.05.16] Flotsam and Jetsam are band I have had mixed feelings about over the years. Having been a huge thrash fan most of my life, and a huge fan of Metallica back in the day, there … Continue reading
Album review: RAINBOW – Monsters Of Rock Live At Donington 1980
Eagle Rock [Release date 22.04.16] CD/DVD Is it me or are Rainbow – 35 years on – viewed through rose-tinted spectacles? The studio albums are worthy but – live – there is excess, there is indulgence, and there’s a lot … Continue reading
Album review: BAD COMPANY – Live 1977 & 1979
Rhino [Release date 29.04.16] It does seem strange that this is the first official live Bad Company album in 40 years, featuring the classic original line-up. Angel Air Records released the Albuquerque gig from 1976 in 2006 but it was … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bad Company, Boz Burrell, Live 1977 & 1979, Mick Ralphs, Paul Rodgers, review, rock, Simon Kirke, USA, Wembley
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Album review: NERINA PALLOT – The Sound And The Fury
INgrooves/Idaho Records [Release date 11.09.15] It’s almost a decade since GRTR!’s last dalliance with the hugely underrated Nerina Pallot. 10 years ago it seemed that with her sophomore release, Fires, she was on the verge of becoming one of Britain’s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Nerina Pallot, pop, review, rock, singer, songwriter, soul, The Sound And The Fury
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Album review: DAN PATLANSKY – Introvertigo
Caroline International P&D [Release date 06.05.16] Dan Patlansky tell us ‘Introvertigo’ is a concept album, but you’d have to delve into an urban dictionary to discover that the title means: “The dizzy feeling an introvert gets when he or she … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Audioslave, blues, Dan Patlansky, funk, Gary Moore, guitar, Introvertigo, Jimi Hendrix, Philip Sayce, review, riffs, rock, Theo Crous
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Album review: SANTANA – Santana IV
Santana IV Records [Release date 15.04.16] In the early 1970s, Santana ‘III’ was the soundtrack of my youth, an album when the band consolidated their Latin Rock credentials and arguably one of their strongest offerings. The album is awash with … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Carlos Santana, Greg Rolie, IV, latin, Michael Carabello, Michael Shrieve, Neal Schon, review, rock, Santana
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Album review: THUNDERSTONE – Apocalypse Again
AFM Records [Release date 01.04.16] Thunderstone are another one of AFM’s hidden treasures that I’ve never actually listened to before and now they return with their sixth studio release “Apocalypse Again”. Guitarist Nino Laurenne put the band together back in … Continue reading
Album review: VARIOUS – Heavy Psych Sounds
http://www.heavypsychsounds.com [Release date 08.04.16] Remember the days when you would go into your local record store and there would be just two categories of music – Rock and Pop, maybe if there was an upstairs or a downstairs, there might … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, acid rock, album, Black Sabbath, Doom, Heavy Psych Sounds Records, Heavy Pysch, psych rock, Retro Rock, review, rock, sampler, Sludge, space rock, Stoner
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Album review: HUMAN FORTRESS – Thieves Of The Night
AFM Records [Release date 18.03.16] “Thieves of the Night” is German melodic metal band Human Fortress’s follow up to the well-received “Raided Land”. The band deal in a genre populated by bands such as Kamelot, Avantasia and Virgin Steele according … Continue reading
Album review: ANTHONY PHILLIPS – Private Parts & Pieces I-IV, Wise After The Event, Sides (reissues)
This complete programme was first broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio in March 2015. Anthony Phillips chats to David Randall about his career, with tracks from his solo albums including “The Missing Links” series and his more recent collaboration … Continue reading
Album review: CHRIS OUSEY – Dream Machine
Escape Music [Release date 22.04.16] Chris Ousey has taken time out from fronting Snakecharmer to release his follow-up to his 2011 album ‘Rhyme & Reason’. He is joined by various guest musicians including fellow Snakecharmer Adam Wakeman, Tommy Denander and … Continue reading
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Tagged albuim, AOR, Chris Ousey, Dream Machine, Heartland, melodic, review, rock, Snakecharmer, Tommy Denander, Virginia Wolf
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Album review: ANDY FRASCO AND THE U.N. – Happy Bastards
Ruf [Release date 26.02.16] Often described as a party band full of ‘orchestrated chaos’, Southern Californian outfit Andy Frasco and the U.N. is no such thing on record. They are every bit as organized and astute as Zappa was in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Andy Frasco, Andy Frasco And The U.N., blues, Frank Zappa, funk, Graham Parker, Motown, R&B, reggae, review, soul, Southside Johnny, Stax, The Tubes
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Album review: JOHN ILLSLEY – Long Shadows
Pete Feenstra chatted to John Illsley about his new album and his influences in a one-hour special broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on Sunday 24 April. This is repeated on Thursday 28 April at 23:00 GMT. In this … Continue reading
