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Album review: RITA BLISS – One More Winter
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Album review : SEVEN SPIRES – A Fortress Called Home (Master Key Edition / 3CDs)
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Album review : SHAKRA – Just Live Loud
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Album review: KRIS BARRAS BAND – Monsters We Made
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Album review: RITA BLISS – One More Winter
Website [Release date 02.10.26] Feeling lonely as a pea, what an exquisitely innocent line. And this kinda describes the album by Rita Bliss in two words. For those of you who don’t know Rita, as I didn’t, as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged album, American folk, banjo, One More Winter, review, Rita Bliss, traditional
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Album review : SEVEN SPIRES – A Fortress Called Home (Master Key Edition / 3CDs)
Frontiers Music [Release date : 04.09.26] “Seven Spires”, says Sascha Paeth, “are one of the few new real personalities in metal”. And you would need an abundance of personality and indeed, confidence to assemble such a suite of music as … Continue reading
Album review : SHAKRA – Just Live Loud
Frontiers [Release date : 04.09.26] Since 1995, Swiss band, Shakra have shared stages worldwide with everybody worth knowing, from Guns’N’Roses to Great White, from Stratovarius to Iron Maiden. And in between times they’ve released 14 albums. Their secret, apart from … Continue reading
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Tagged Frontiers Music, Live Life Loud, Mark Fox, melodic rock, review, Shakra, Thom Blunier, Thomas Muster
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Album review: KRIS BARRAS BAND – Monsters We Made
Earache [Release date 14.08.26] Kris Barras is consolidating his out and out heavy rock stance with the latest album. And what an album! There is a superb crunching groove throughout. I was impressed with the three previous albums which saw … Continue reading
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Tagged album, heavy rock, Kris Barras Band, metal, Monsters We Made, review
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Album review: THE UGLY GUYS – Highway Shoes
Conquest Music [Release date : 03.07.26] The Ugly Guys 9th album ‘Highway Shoes’ is everything you would want from a good country rock album, and more! It’s a perfectly balanced showcase of their own song craft, tempered by well chosen … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Bb Clouter, Cosmic Country, Country Music, Doug Sahm, George Jones, Gram Parsons, Highway Shoes, Jimmy Webb, Michael Murphy, Micky Jupp, Mikey Newbury, Neville Kiddier, Paul Shuttleworth, pub rock, review, Steve Oliver, Tex Mex, the Ugly Guys, Vic Collins, Vince Gill, Willie Nelson
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Album review: STEVE HACKETT & STEVE ROTHERY – The Roaring Waves
Inside Out Music [Release date 28.08.26] Some years ago when I saw Steve Rothery’s band his second guitarist Dave Foster was providing support. Halfway through that set there came a guitar sound that was fashioned in the Lap of the … Continue reading
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Album review: SHA-BOOM – Another Nail in the Coffin
Silver Lining Music [Release date 26.08.26] Sha-Boom appeared in 1988 and disappeared almost as quickly in 1992. Fast forward to 2005 and they released ‘The Race Is On’, then radio silence for a couple of decades until they re-emerge with … Continue reading
News: BROTHERS OSBORNE, WILLIE DOWLING, FOREIGNER (September 2026)
Brothers Osborne (pictured) release their new album ‘Watertown’ on October 23 via MCA Records. Cats In Space release their new album ‘Suit of Armour’ on Esoteric/Cherry Red on November 6. Dead End Heroes (who feature Rolf Munkes, Paul Logue & Carsten … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, blues, Brothers Osborne, folk, Foreigner, gigs, melodic rock, metal, news, re-issues, RIP, special editions, tour dates, Willie Dowling
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Album review: BERNIE MARSDEN- Stage
Conquest Music [Release Date 21.8.26] Bernie Marsden’s passing three years ago still hits hard, not least as he still had much to offer musically, and there have been a stream of recent releases, some of them posthumous. A brilliant guitarist … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bernie Marsden, blues, blues rock, Joe Bonamassa, live album, Whitesnake
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Album review: THOSE MADE BROKEN – A Door You Can Never Close
Website [Release date 01.09.26] I’m always very excited when I hear of an album that is not just made for pleasing the musical mainframe, but from a place of education and awareness of situations that many may not know is happening … Continue reading
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Tagged A Door You Can Never Close, album, alt rock, grunge, review, rock, Those Made Broken
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Album review : BLACK OAK ARKANSAS – When Electricity Came To Arkansas Vol 1 (5 CDs)
Cherry Red [Release date : 28.08.26] CD1 : Black Oak Arkansas (1971) + 2 bonus CD2 : Keep The Faith (1972) CD3 : If An Angel Came To See You, Would You Make Her Feel At Home? (1972) CD4 : … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Oak Arkansas, Cherry Red, gospel, Jim Dandy, Raunch'n'Roll Live, review, southern rock
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Book review: ON TRACK…. DEF LEPPARD… every album, every song by Scott Robinson
SonicBond Publishing (Release Date 29.05.2026) With Def Leppard’s successful UK tour still fresh in the memory, now is a good time for a look back at their career and to revisit their back catalogue. As Scott Robinson points out in … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Def Leppard, On Track, Scott Robinson, Sonicbond
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Album review: KEVIN BURT– This Trip
Gulf Coast Records [Release date : 28.08.26] Iowa Blues Hall of Fame inductee and 2026 Blues Music Award winner Kevin Burt’s ‘This Trip’ digs deep into his reserves, for 10 emotionally charged songs given real weight by his big sounding … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Bill Withers, blues, Gulf Coast, harp, John Lee Hooker, Kevin Burt, review, Taj Mahal, The Trip, vocal
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Album review : ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK – Faithfully
Cleopatra Records [Release date : 28.08.26] The whole idea of taking on a striking stage name has been with us since the beginnings of show business. From the of early days of popular music to the modern era, singers like … Continue reading
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Tagged Engelbert Humperdinck, Extreme, Faithfully, Gerry Dorsey, Journey, Release Me, the Cars, Warrant
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Album review: BAP KENNEDY – Above All, Love
Lonely Street Discs [Release date : 28.08.26] The late Energy Orchard frontman and solo artist Bap Kennedy’s posthumously released ‘Above All, Love’ is an absolute gem of a record. Overseen by his widow, former band member Brenda Kennedy (an author, artist … Continue reading
Album review: ROB TOGNONI – Black On Black
Bandcamp [Release date : 09.07.26] Rob Tognoni’s ‘Black On Black’ is a hard rocking album, full of his unrelenting energy, focussed intensity and uncompromising lyrics, which frequently mirror his steely riffs (or vice versa). ‘The Tasmanian Devil’ enjoys moments of … Continue reading
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Tagged AC/DC, album, Black On Black, Bob Dylan, Derrin Neundorf, Frank Zappa, review, riffs, Rob Tognoni, rock, Stratocaster
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Album review: ETERNAL – Conspiracy Of Warheads
Floga Records [Release date 02.10.26] Eternal. On being sent this I thought ‘why am I being asked to something by Eternal? Aren’t they a British pop act featuring Jamie Redknapp’s wife?’ Ah, no. THIS Eternal are a Greek four piece, … Continue reading
Album review : NIGHT RANGER Best Of
Frontiers Music [Release date : 28.08.26] Quintessential white middle class rock band from the past, Night Ranger continues to make great melodic rock music in the present. Meantime, this remastered, retrospective collection might satisfy the band’s fans and more. It … Continue reading
Album review: SPELL SONGS – In Thin Air
Hudson Records [Release date 04.09.26] Spell Songs are a bit of a folk supergroup comprising of Karine Polwar, Julie Fowlis, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter and Jim Molyneux, who between them have had more wins and nominations … Continue reading
Album review: KINDRED NORTH – Kindred North
Pride & Joy Music [Release date 21.08.26] Although melodic rock and AOR is my first musical love (along with folk music), recent albums in this genre have not made much impression. Pride of Lions, Acacia Avenue and Creye come to … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Andi Kravljaca, Andreas Nergård, debut, hard rock, Kindred North, melodic rock, review, rock
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Single review: BIG COUNTRY REDUX – Winter Sky
Website Big Country Redux return with ‘Winter Sky’, the latest single taken from their forthcoming album ‘Eastworld’, due for release on September 18. The track was originally written by Watson and Stuart Adamson during sessions for the band’s 1984 album … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Country Redux, Bruce Watson, indie rock, review, rock, single, Stuart Adamson, Tony Butler, Winter Sky
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Album review: PAUL DI’ANNO’S BATTLEZONE – Children Of Madness
Cargo/Deko Entertainment [Release date 23.10.26] Singer Paul Di’Anno found fame as Iron Maiden’s frontman on their first two albums, before recording the more AOR Di’Anno LP, and working with the supergroup Gogmagog. Then in 1986 he returned to a more … Continue reading
Album review: RAINBOW – In Concert 1976 Live In Nurnberg
Demon Records [Release date 28.08.26] Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow’s three German live shows, originally released on CD some years ago and long out of print, were reissued more recently as part of Demon’s Temple Of The King box set. The label … Continue reading
Album review: WARREN HAYNES – Dreams & Songs: A Symphonic Journey
Provogue / Artone Label Group [Release date : 18.09.26] ‘Dreams & Songs – A Symphonic Journey’ is a 16 track career retrospective double album that sets the bar high in terms of expectation, and delivers with plenty to spare. Warren … Continue reading
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Tagged Asheville Symphony Orchestra, Dreams & Songs – A Symphonic Journey, Gov't Mule, Greg Osby, Jethro Tull, John Medeski, Paul Buckmaster. album, review, Rich Daniels, Robert Hunter, The Allman Brothers, The Grateful Dead, Warren Haynes
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Album review : NIGHTWING – Long Hard Road 1980-85 (5 CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date : 28.08.26] CD1 : Something In The Air (1980) CD2 : Black Summer (1982) CD3 : Stand Up And Be Counted (1983) CD4 : My Kingdom Come (1894) CD5 : Night Of Mystery – Alive! Alive! … Continue reading
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Tagged Cherry Red, GTR, Long Hard Road, Max Bacon, Night Wing, NWOBHM, review
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