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Album review: JEREMY SPENCER – Coventry Blue
Propelz [Release date 01.03.14] ‘Coventry Blue’ is Jeremy Spencer’s second record since making an impressive but understated comeback with ‘Bend In The Road’. If the latter was loosely based around the concept of travel, then ‘Coventry Blue’ is more about … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Brett Lucas, Buddy Holly, Cliff Richard, country blues, Coventry Blue, Duncan McMillan, Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, James Simonson, Jeremy Spencer, Mark Knopfler, Mimi Morris, Molly Hughes, Rachel May, review, Saint Cecillia, slide guitar, Stephan Koch, Todd Glass
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Album review: MY FAVOURITE RUNNER UP – Crossroads
Self-release [Release date – 17.02.14] South Wales for some reason is a bit of a hot bed for young pop punk bands and My Favourite Runner Up are another name to add to the list. The band, I suspect, have … Continue reading
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Tagged album, CD, Crossroads, Jimmy Eat World, My Favourite Runner Up, pop, punk, review, rock, Wales
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Album review: BALEFUL CREED – Baleful Creed
Self-release (release date – out now) Belfast’s Baleful Creed originally got together as a covers band back in 2009. Playing covers soon gave way to song writing and the band performing original numbers which they have honed and developed over … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice In Chains, Baleful Creed, CD, Greg Finlay, John Allan, Kyuss, review, rock, Stoner
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Album review: MODERN EARL – Hot Damn!
Modern Earl/Christopher Hudson [Release date 23.01.14] While the terms ‘kick ass’ and ‘southern country rock’ aren’t necessarily antithetical, they fail to fuse or spark on Modern Earl’s ‘Hot Damn!’ I’m sure this German exiled American southern country rock band do … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Christopher Earl Hudson, country, Ethan Shaffner, Hot Damn, Modern Earl, review, rock, southern rock, The Outlaws
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Album review: ULTAN CONLON – Songs Of Love So Cruel
Darksideout [Release date 09.06.14] The fact that the ‘Songs Of Love So Cruel’ dominates the CD sleeve tells you all you need to know about Ultan Conlon’s mindset, on an album full of enduring relationship and love songs. He treads … Continue reading
Quick plays: BLAIR DUNLOP, LITTLE FEAT, PHIL VINCENT, NEIL INNES & FATSO
BLAIR DUNLOP – House Of Jacks www.blairdunlop.com [Released 26.05.14] Blair Dunlop has had a good start to his musical career winning the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2013 and earning rave reviews for his debut … Continue reading
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Tagged Alison Fleming, AOR, Blair Dunlop, Eric Idle, folk, House Of Jack, Little Feat, Live In Holland 1976, Lowell George, melodic rock, Monty Python, Neil Innes, Neil Innes & Fatso, Phil Vincent, singer songwriter, Slave To Sin, southern rock, the Rutles, Tony Lowe, Vince O'Regan
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Album review: EDDIE & THE HOT RODS – 2 Sides
Wienerworld [Release date 27.01.14] These are good times for Eddie & The Rods. So good in fact that it’s a startling 10 years since their 30th anniversary reformation, taking in 4 tours of the USA and a successful domestic tour … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Sides, album, Barrie Masters, Dipster Dean, Eddie & The Hot Rods, pub rock, punk, R&B, review, Richard Hogarth, Simon Bowley, Status Quo, The Ramones
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Album review: SUEDE – Royal Albert Hall, 24 March 2010
Edsel Records [12.05.14] CD/DVD This is a rather special live recording on two counts, first it was one of the annual gigs at the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust and secondly Suede were asked to reform especially … Continue reading
Album review: SWEETKISS MOMMA – A Reckoning Is Coming
Self Release [Release date 01.03.14] The Tacoma based Sweetkiss Momma defy all expectations by being a Washington state based, 70’s influenced, self sufficient, southern influenced roots rock outfit. Musically schooled in a church background and rooted in gospel, they’ve stepped … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Arnold, album, Allman Brothers, Boz Scaggs, classic rock, Green On Red, Jeff Hamel, Jeremy Hamel, Jimmy Hughs, Ken Coomer, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Moreland & Arbuckle, review, Richard Dodd, Robert Plant, roots rock, southern rock, Sweetkiss Momma, TomPetty, Wilco
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Album review: THREE LIONS – Three Lions
Frontiers [Released 25.04.14] Three Lions is a dream come true for Bradford vocalist and bass player Nigel Bailey. Twenty years of slogging around local pubs and clubs in his spare time suddenly turned into an opportunity to record an album … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Del Vecchio, Asia, Dare, Frontiers, Greg Morgan, hard rock, melodic rock, Nigel Bailey, review, TEN, Three Lions, Vinny Burns
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Album review: CALIFORNIA BREED – California Breed
Pete Feenstra chats to Glenn Hughes, 1 April 2014 Frontiers Records [Release date 19.05.14] You could be forgiven for dismissing this three generational band as ‘old wine in new bottles’, but that would be to the underestimate bigger picture that … Continue reading
Album review: TOSELAND – Renegade
52 Music (release date – out now) The opening track to this album could well sum up James Toseland’s career to date, a double Superbike world champion and now a blossoming music career, ‘Life Is Beautiful’ right enough. This album … Continue reading
Album review: CAGE THE GODS – Badlands
Jam Hand Music (release date – out now) Young brit rockers Cage The Gods are a band I have heard a lot about, mostly from my fellow scribe, Simon Dunkerley, who has been a big supporter of the guys for … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Badlands, Cage The Gods, CD, Jam, melodic rock, Peter Comerford, review, rock
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Album review: THE RADIO SUN – Wrong Things Right
MelodicRock Records [Released 19.05.14] The Radio Sun may be releasing their debut album, however the keen pop rock fan will notice that the core of the band were in the much missed Square One (vocalist Jason Old, guitarist Steve Janevski … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, MelodicRock Records, Nelson, pop rock, power pop, Sqaure One, THE RADIO SUN, Vega, Wrong Things Right
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Album review: TOTO – 35th Anniversary Live In Poland
In May 2014 Steve Lukather chatted to David Randall in the Guitarists series on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. In the extract (above) he talks about the influence of The Beatles and how he’s just received a text from Ringo … Continue reading
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Tagged 35th Anniversary, album, David Paich, Joseph Williams, Live In Poland, review, Steve Lukather, Toto
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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: 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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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
