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Category Archives: The Best Of 2014
News: THE BEST of 2014 – Vote for your favourites! Best rock albums and live acts!
Every year the GRTR! Reviewers choose their favourite albums and live acts. We reduce this selection to a list of ten in each category. The Best of 2014: Reviewers’ Choice We’ll publish the popular vote results on Tuesday 23 December. … Continue reading
THE BEST of 2014 – top rock albums, top live acts – the reviewers’ choice
The Best of 2014 with David Randall by Get Ready To Rock! Radio on Mixcloud Every year we ask the GRTR! Team to list their favourite albums and gigs of the year. Typically, it’s a diverse selection that may not … Continue reading
Album review: OPETH – Pale Communion
Roadrunner Records [Release Date 25.08.14] Mikael Akerfeldt – the debate rages… Rather like Steven Wilson and Mike Portnoy, there are sections of the music press which are so sycophantic and so over the top in hyping up the Opeth frontman … Continue reading
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Tagged album, MIKAEL AKERFELDT, OPETH, Pale Communion, prog, Progressive Rock, review
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Album review: VIRGIL & THE ACCELERATORS – Army of Three
Virgil & The Accelerators chat to Pete Feenstra for his Feature show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on Sunday 28 September, 19:00 GMT (repeated Tuesday 30 September at 21:00) More information Mystic [Release date 06.10.14] Having made a big … Continue reading
Album review: BERNIE MARSDEN – Shine
Provogue [Release date 18.08.14] Bernie Marsden’s ‘Shine’ explores a wide ranging musical horizon including a cleverly updated blues, slick AOR, kick ass boogie, riff driven and twin guitar rock, a steaming bluesy shuffle and a book-ended instrumental. By his own … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bernie Marsden, blues, Danny Kirwan, David Coverdale, Don Airey Cherry Lee Mewis, Ian Paice, Jimmy Copley, Joe Bonamassa, Mark Feltham, Peter Green, review, Rob Kass, rock, Shine, Sonny Landreth, Whitesnake, ZZ Top
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Album review: H.E.A.T. – Tearing Down The Walls
Interview with Eric Rivers, first broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, 16 March 2014 (9:36) earMUSIC [Release date 14.04.14] Album number four by melodic hard rockers H.E.A.T. and the second with vocalist Erik Gronwell, who has really established himself … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Eric Rivers, H.E.A.T., HEAT, interview, melodic rock, review, Sweden, Tearing Down The Walls
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