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News: Albums of the Month (July – September 2025)
A quarterly feature highlighting album releases rated highly by the GRTR! review team and worthy of your investigation. We try and pick out a cross-section of albums that reflect the range of genres reviewed at the website. The star rating … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025, albums of the month, Americana, August, blues rock, classic rock, hard rock, July, melodic rock, metal, Progressive Rock, roots, September
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Album review : LEAH MARTIN-BROWN – Love & Other Crimes
Frontiers Music [Release date 24.10.25] Australian born, but now resident in Europe via the USA, amazingly gifted singer Leah Martin-Brown releases her debut album on Frontiers Music this month. She’s got a lot going for her before we hear a … Continue reading
Book review: MARTIN BARRE – A Trick Of Memory
David Randall chatted to Martin Barre at the start of his UK tour dates in November 2025. This hour special includes tracks from several albums including Tull and Alan Simon’s ‘Excalibur’ project McNidder & Grace [Publication date 06.11.25] “The music … Continue reading
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Tagged A Trick Of Memory, autobiography, book, classic rock, guitar, guitarist, Jethro Tull, Martin Barre, Progressive Rock, review
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Album review: LAURA COX – Trouble Coming
earMusic [Release date 31.10.25] Album number four from Anglo-French guitarist and singer Laura Cox, who first came to wider attention via her YouTube channel in 2008. The album was mixed and engineered by Jean-Marc Pelatan, with tracks mastered by Ted Jensen … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues rock, guitarist, Laura Cox, melodic, review, rock, Trouble Coming
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Gig review: CHRIS NORMAN- Indigo2, London, 16 October 2025
Of those rock stars who have fallen out of consciousness in their native UK, you can file Chris Norman under the ‘Big in Europe’ category. The gravel-voiced former Smokie singer commands a devoted following abroad, particularly in Germany, but gigs … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Norman, Geoff Carline, gig, Martina Walbeck, Rachel Parga, Smokie, soft rock
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Album review: STEVE MORSE BAND – Triangulation
Music Theories Recordings [Release date 14.10.25] Steve Morse Band’s ‘Triangulation’ is a complex, intense and yet accessible virtuosic album which successfully evokes the conceptual ‘Triangulation’ album title. The ‘triangulation’ concept refers to geographically pinpointing your exact location at a specific … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Dave LaRue, Dixie Dreggs, Eric Johnson, Flying Colors, funk, fusion, instrumental, Jeff Beck, Jethro Tull, John Petrucci, Kevin Morse, King Crimson, prog, review, Robert Fripp, rock, Scott Sim, Steve Morse, Steve Morse Band, Triangulation, Van Romaine
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Album review: PAUL KELLY – Seventy
Website [Release date 07.11.25] Question – how many Australian artists do you know? Not many I am thinking. There are the usual suspects, AC/DC, INXS, Midnight Oil possibly, Johnny Deisel perhaps, and Nick Cave who is really an honorary Brit. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, folk, Paul Kelly, review, Seventy, singer songwriter
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Album review : WEST, BRUCE & LAING – Out In The Fields – The albums 1972-74
Esoteric [Release date : 31.10.25] Three searing samples of the red hot rock’n’roll that emanated from supergroup, West, Bruce & Laing. No surprise really. Their genesis lies in the live improvisations of Jack Bruce’s previous band, Cream, and the hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Corky Laing, Cream, Jack Bruce, Leslie West, Mountain, Out In The Fields, review, seventies, West Bruce & Laing
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Gig review: BRAVE RIVAL- 100 Club, London, 15 October 2025
There is no harder working touring band than Brave Rival, but of their many shows this was a special one, a well attended Central London showcase for their new (and excellent) ‘5 to 4’ EP which marks a new chapter … Continue reading
EP review: ELLIOT PORTER – I Choose the Moon
Website [Release date 30.10.25] Elliot Porter is a Cambridge based singer songwriter who has been building up a following, through gigging and a series of releases, including a cover of Frank Turner’s ‘Be More Kind’, which raised over £2,000 for … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Elliot Porter, EP, I Choose the Moon, indie, indie pop, melodic, pop, review
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Album review : WRATHCHILD AMERICA – Climbing the Walls / 3-D (2 CD remasters w/bonus tracks)
Cherry Red [Release date : 24.10.25] Back in 1984, founding member, vocalist and bass man, Brad Divens gave up a career in the straight world to “make it” with his Thrash Metal band, Wrathchild America. It was a high risk … Continue reading
Gig review: FRANCIS ROSSI – Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline, 15 October 2025
The title of ‘rock legend’ is a hard earned badge of honour bestowed on the few that have dedicated their lives to the cause and have left their indelible mark on rock music. Francis Rossi is most deserving of this … Continue reading
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Tagged 15th October 2025, Alhambra Theatre, Andy Brook, Caroline, Down Down, Dunfermline, Francis Rossi, gig, GOMOR, live, rock legend, Status Quo, Whatever You Want
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Feature: Albums that time forgot – PETER BARDENS – Heart To Heart (1979)
Arista (1979) Esoteric (Reissue, 2012) Peter Bardens has an interesting history. Although his career was cut short – succumbing to lung cancer in 2002 at the age of 56 – he spent time in the 1960s with Mick Fleetwood and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Camel, feature, fusion, Heart To Heart, instrumental, Peter Bardens, prog pop, Progressive Rock, review
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Gig review: KATHERINE PRIDDY – Harwell Village Hall, 17 October 2025
A sold out show – and the third Katherine Priddy gig hosted at Harwell to sell out – is always a great thing to see, especially at the grassroots level where you can still see and support acts as talented … Continue reading
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Tagged 17 October 2025, Americana, folk, George Boomsma, gig, Harwell Village Hall, Katherine Priddy, melodic, review, Roswell Road, singer songwriter
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Album review: ROBIN ADAMS – The Beggar
Website [Release date 09.11.25] Ok, lets tackle the elephant in the room – this could be Nick Drake’s fourth album. And I say that with the utmost respect and admiration. From the phrasing to the melodies the guitar tone and style … Continue reading
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Tagged album, folk, Nick Drake, review, Robin Adams, String Driven Thing, The Beggar
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Gig review: GLENN HUGHES – Bristol O2 Academy, 14 October 2025
“Fuck politics. Music is the healer”. And there speaketh the Voice of Rock. But first, Sophie Lloyd who lent her support on this UK leg of the European tour. From what I can gather she doesn’t mind flaunting her body … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Country Communion, Bristol, classic rock, Deep Purple, gig, Glenn Hughes, hard rock, heavy rock, O2 Academy, review, Sophie Lloyd, Trapeze
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Album review : ATOMIC ROOSTER – Circle The Sun
Cherry Red/Esoteric [Release date 10.10.25] 40 years between albums is pushing it a bit. But for Atomic Rooster, that’s where we are. The band’s last album, Headline News, was their seventh, released in 1983. Two generations ago, give or take. … Continue reading
Album review: MARTYN JOSEPH – Troubled Horses
Website [Release date 07.11.25] Well I’m ashamed to say, Martyn Joseph has released a staggering 28 studio albums, 15 live albums, and 4 EP’s. He’s been in the music business since 1983, and I am only just listening to him … Continue reading
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Gig review: THE DUST CODA/BAD TOUCH – Islington Academy, London, 8 October 2025
The economics of touring do not always make happy reading with too many bands chasing the same limited audience. So it made sense for two of the leading lights in the New Wave of Classic Rock in Bad Touch and … Continue reading
Album review: JOHN LEES’ BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST – Relativity
Cherry Red Records [Release date 17.10.25] More than seven years in the making and some twelve years since the release of ‘North’ its 2013 predecessor, John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest’s second studio album, ‘Relativity’ proves that time well spent can … Continue reading
EP Review: BRAVE RIVAL – 5 to 4
Independent (Release Date: 17.10.25) Its been a year of change in the Brave Rival camp with the departure of Chloe Josephine, one of the twin lead singers that helped make their sound so distinctive. Given their incessant touring activity, there … Continue reading
Album review: BRINSLEY SCHWARZ – Shouting At The Moon
Fretsore Records [Release date 14.11.25] Brinsley Schwarz emerged from the pub rock boom of the early 1970s. They will be best remembered for their infamous press junket in 1970 and a disastrous US debut. Oh, how times change. ‘Shouting At … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Brinsley Schwarz, classic rock, review, Shouting At The Moon
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Album review: ROOMFUL OF BLUES – Steppin Out!
Pete Feenstra chatted to Chris Vachon from Roomful Of Blues for Get Ready to ROCK! radio. First broadcast 19 October 2025. Alligator Records [Release date 24.10.25] ‘Steppin’ Out!’ is Roomful of Blues’ first studio album for 5 years and their … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Copley, album, Big Maybelle, blues, Buddy Johnson, Candye Kane, Chris Vachon, DD Bastos, Duke Robillard, horns, jazz, Otis Grand, R&B, review, Rich Lataiile, Roomful of Blues, Smiley Lewis, soul, swing
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Album review: PAVLOV’S DOG – Wonderlust
Ruf Records [Release date 03.10.25] As we’ve indicated elsewhere, reviewing the 5-CD retrospective, Pavlov’s Dog have never received the success they might deserve and never sustaining the acclaimed heights (and large sign-up fee) of their debut album released in 1974. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Pavlov's Dog, pop prog, pop rock, review, Wonderlust
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Album review: PAVLOV’S DOG – Essential Recordings 1974-2018 (5-CD box set)
Ruf Records [Release date 27.09.24] What are we to make of a fairly basic box set from a band that have been described as “legendary” but who – this side of the pond – have largely gone unnoticed? ‘Essential Recordings’ … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, box set, David Surkamp, Essential Recordings 1974-2018, melodic rock, Pavlov's Dog, prog, prog pop, progressive, review
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