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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS
Album review: LYNCH MOB – The Elektra Years 1990-92 (2 CDs w/bonus tracks)
Cherry Red [Release date 27.08.21] A 2 CD Lynch Mob package. Wicked Sensation (1990) and Lynch Mob (1992). All that’s missing is the “best before 1989” label. And that problem undermined any notion of commercial success. Either one of these … Continue reading
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Tagged albums, Dokken, George Lynch, Lynch Mob, Mick Brown, Oni Logan, review, Robert Mason, Wicked Sensation
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Album review: BLACKTOP MOJO – Blacktop Mojo
Self-released [Release date 13.08.21] Blacktop Mojo are a new name to this reviewer, however, the band have been around since 2012 and this is their fourth album. Blacktop Mojo consists if Matt James (vocals), Ryan Kiefer (guitar), Chuck Wepfer (guitar), … Continue reading
Album review: APRIL WINE – First Glance, Harder…Faster
BGO Records [Release date 06.08.21] Although April Wine had been around since 1969, they only really made in big outside of their native Canada with 1978’s ‘First Glance’, an album that also marked the debut of guitarist Brian Greenway. Between … Continue reading
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Tagged album, April Wine, BGO Records, classic rock, First Glance, hard rock, Harder…Faster, review, rock
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Album review: SLADE – Slayed?
BMG (LP, splatter vinyl) [Release date 03.09.21] Wolverhampton born legends Slade were important and successful innovators in hard rock and glam rock during the 70s, both musically and visually. There have been many reissues, but this LP reminds us of … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's rock, album, classic album, glam rock, hard rock, Jim Lea, Noddy Holder, reissue, review, rock, Slade, Slayed?
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Album review: THE VAPORS – Waiting For The Weekend (The United Artists & Liberty Records Recordings)
Cherry Red Records The original recordings by The Vapors have been largely unavailable on CD for many years. Cherry Red / RT Industries address this perfectly with a comprehensive 4CD set, which not only rounds up both albums and all … Continue reading
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Tagged box set, Bruce Foxton, Cherry Red Records, Howard Smith, New Wave, pop, pop rock, review, The Jam, The United Artists & Liberty Records Recordings, The Vapors, Waiting For The Weekend
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Album review: ORANGE GOBLIN – Healing Through Fire (2CDs w/bonus tracks)
Cherry Red Records [Release date 20.08.21] This expanded Orange Goblin compilation centres on their 2007 Disaster Album, Healing Through Fire. Only a Heavy Metal band could take The Great Fire Of London and the Great Plague as the theme for its … Continue reading
Album review: DANKO JONES – Power Trio
Mate In Germany [Release date 27.08.21] Danko Jones are onto their tenth album, which also celebrates the 25th year anniversary of this uncompromising band. They have their own unique sound and keep on doing what they do best – uncompromising … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Danko Jones, Elton John, garage rock, hard rock, Kiss, Motorhead, Phil Campbell, power trio, review, rock 'n' roll
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Album review: BRENT WINDLER – New Morning Howl
Goldstar Records [release date 27.08.21] New Morning Howl is the debut album from Kansas City singer/songwriter, Brent Windler. Big things are expected of this exceptionally talented artist. There’s definitely a touch of Paul Simon about Windler, in the way that … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Brent Windler, Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach, Jellyfish, New Morning Howl, pop, review
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Album review: THE GRAFENBERG DISCIPLES – Johnny On The Spot
The Highlander Company Records [Release date 02.07.21] The opening track of this album really sets the scene and the influences. Sounding like a mash up of something by Level 42, Phil Collins’ ‘Another Day In Paradise;’ and Roachford the controls … Continue reading
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Album review: CRUZH – Tropical Thunder
Frontiers [Release date 06.08.21] Cruzh is back with a new vocalist, Alex Waghorn, in a belated follow-up to 2016’s self-titled debut. Waghorn joined Cruzh in 2019 when the band released an acoustic version of ‘Aim For The Head’. Now, Waghorn, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alex Waghorn, AOR, Cruzh, Def Leppard, Frontiers, hard rock, melodic rock, review
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Album review: FRANKIE MILLER – Full House and Double Trouble (remasters w/bonus tracks)
Rock Candy Records [Release date 30.07.21] With 3 outstanding albums under his belt, but no substantial success, you could have forgiven Frankie Miller for just accepting his fate. Judging by his genre hopping fourth album, Full House, (1978) he never … Continue reading
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Tagged Ace, album, Andy Fraser, blues, ELO, Eric Troyer, Frankie Miller, Free, funk, Jack Douglas, Marvin Gaye, Mike And The Mechanics, Paul Carrack, pop, review, rock, Rock Candy Records, Squeeze, Steven Tyler, The Record Plant
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Album review: ALL GOOD THINGS – A Hope In Hell
Better Noise Music [Release date 20.08.21] All Good Things signed with Better Noise Music in 2019 and now they unleash their debut album. All Good Things consists of Dan Murphy (vocals), Andrew Bojanic (guitars, bass, vocals, keyboards, producer), Liz Hooper … Continue reading
Quick plays: HAMISH HAWK, LANGAN FROST & WANE
HAMISH HAWK Heavy Elevator Assai Recordings [Release date 17.09.21] Hamish Hawk is an Edinburgh-based songwriter who performs solo and as frontman of the New Outfit. Hamish Hawk possess a rich, warm baritone vocal, perfectly suited for the mellower moments like … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt rock, folk, folk rock, Hamish Hawk, Heavy Elevator, indie, Langan Frost & Wane, progressive, psychedelic, review
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Album review: DONNIE IRIS AND THE CRUISERS – Remasters
Rock Candy Records [release date 30.07.21] Back On The Streets (1980) King Cool (1981) High And Mighty (1982) Fortune 410 (1983) Donnie Iris’s first 4 albums have at last been nailed down by Rock Candy Records. The pursuit has been … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Boston, Brian Wilson, Donnie Iris, Mark Avsec, Police, Powerpop, review, rock, Talking Heads, Wondermints
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Album review: COLIN SCOT – Colin Scot
Esoteric/Cherry Red [Release date 30.7.21] It’s more than a little unfair that the late singer-songwriter Colin Scot’s 1971 debut seems to be regarded more for the myriad of guest musicians than for Scot’s own undoubted talent. Reissued on CD for … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Colin Scot, folk, folk rock, Jon Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, reissue, review, Rick Wakeman, Robert Fripp, singer songwriter
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Album review: CHANTEL McGREGOR – Shed Sessions Volume One & Two
www.chantelmcgregor.com [Release date 12.07.21] Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3. In Chantel McGregor’s case, parts 1 and 2 aka Shed Sessions. Gather together the fish tank, an acoustic guitar and a tame keyboard player (Jamie Brooks) and you have a … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, blues rock, Chantel McGregor, classic rock, Facebook, guitar, guitarist, review, Shed Sessions, Volume One, Volume Two
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Album review: MIRKA RANTANEN’s CIRCUS OF ROCK – Come One Come All
Frontiers [release date 06.08.21] Circus Of Rock is a multiple guests band … singers, musicians … put together by King Company drummer boy, Mirka Rantanen. The album, Come One Come All is the realisation of a life long ambition, a … Continue reading
Album review: THE DAWN BROTHERS – Dusk
Website [Release date 16.07.21] Welcome, one and all, to the official baptism of a new creed, the revitalization of a long-loved and well-trodden genre – Rotterdam’s The Dawn Brothers excellent new release, DUSK, hereby puts a firm stake in the ground … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, blues, country rock, Dusk, melodic, review, the Dawn Brothers, West Coast
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Album review: THE KORGIS – Kartoon World
Pete Feenstra chatted to James Warren about the album Kartoon World for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 1 August 2021. https://thekorgis.com/ [Release date 16.07.21] ‘Kartoon World’ is the first proper studio album since 1992. And it marks a … Continue reading
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Tagged 10CC, Al Steele, Asia, Chris Hopkins, concept album, Darren Parry, ELP, Exhibit-1, George Harrison, James Warren, John Baker, John Lennon, Kartoon World, Keith Emerson, Laura Prince, Oasis, Paul Smith, Peter Karrie, Phil Spector, Pink Floyd, review, Rupert Hine, Seye Adelekan, Squeeze, Stackridge, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Gorillaz, The Korgis, The Turtles
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Album review: THE ROLLING STONES – A Bigger Bang live on Copacabana Beach
Mercury Studios [Release date 09.07.21] Originally released on DVD in 2007, this Rolling Stones release has been remixed, re-mastered, re-edited and re-released. At the time The Stones were touring in support of their recent “A Bigger Bang” album and this … Continue reading
Album review: GEEZER BUTLER – Manipulations of the Mind – The Complete Collection/The Very Best of Geezer Butler
BMG [Release date: 30.07.21] Widely respected as the bassist that invented the heavyweight bottom-end of the metal genre, and rightly held in esteem for being the main lyricist of Black Sabbath, Geezer Butler’s solo material has been packaged into a … Continue reading
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Tagged album, bass, best of Black Sabbath, Burton C Bell, Deen Castronovo, Doom, Geezer Butler, Industrial, metal, review
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Album review: SPEKTRA – Overload
Frontiers [Release date 06.08.21] Still mining Brazil’s rich seam of hard rock heroes, Frontiers latest South American hopefuls are Spektra, a melodic rock band built around the talents of the vocalist/ guitarist with no name, BJ. And like his countryman, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alirio, BJ, Boston, Edu Cominato, Foreigner, Jeff Scott Soto, melodic hard rock, review, Winger
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Album review: ALIRIO – All Things Must Pass
Frontiers [Release date 06.08.21] Alirio (Netto) is big in Brazil. Arguably, he’s paid his dues several times over, appearing on stage in several rock musicals through the years to considerable acclaim, as well as being the frontman for Khalice, Age … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice Cooper, Alirio, Brazil, Frontiers, hard rock, Icon Of Sin, Inner Stream, Journey, Raphael Mendes, review, Vera Ortiz
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Album review: LONG SHADOWS DAWN – Isle Of Wrath
Frontiers [Release date 06.08.21] Long Shadows Dawn is a new collaboration between vocalist extraordinaire Doogie White and guitarist Emil Norberg from power metal band Persuader. The guys have taken their musical cues from the classic rock of the late 70’s … Continue reading
Album review: DEE SNIDER – Leave A Scar
Napalm Records [Release date 30.07.21] Dee is back and he sounds angry, be afraid, very afraid! This album follows on from Dee’s last album ‘For The Love Of Metal’ released in 2018 and is once again produced by Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed fame. After the demise … Continue reading
