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Album review: AIRBOURNE – Breakin’ Outta Hell

Posted on October 4, 2016 by david.wilson

Spinefarm Records [Release date 23.09.16] AC/DC are no more. Regardless of what Angus Young may say with the departure of Macolm Young, Brian Johnson and now Cliff Williams, the AC/DC we know and love are dead. This then throws down … Continue reading →

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Album review: RICHARD SHINDELL – Careless

Posted on October 2, 2016 by alanjones

Continental Song City [Release date: 9.09.16] Richard Shindell is one of those enigmas whose talent is in reverse proportion to his commerciality. A native New Yorker now residing in Buenos Aries, he is a contemporary singer-songwriter of the highest order … Continue reading →

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Album review: CURE FOR GRAVITY – s/t

Posted on October 1, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

[Release date 14.10.16] www.cureforgravity.net California-based trio Cure For Gravity describe their influences as traditional prog (Genesis, King Crimson) prog with a more experimental edge (Radiohead, God Is An Astronaut) This should give you an idea of the band’s musical range … Continue reading →

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Album review: HOME SERVICE – A New Ground

Posted on October 1, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

Dotted Line [Release date 01.09.16] If you want a band that takes up where Ashley Hutchings and the Albion Band left off then Home Service is your saviour. Completely understandable as, in 1980, the band formed with members out of … Continue reading →

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Album review: TILT – Hinterland

Posted on September 29, 2016 by jason

Tilt Music Some albums come out of nowhere with no expectations and simply blow you away musically. Tilt’s debut ‘Hinterland’ is one of those albums and I was hooked from the first playing of this album. The album itself has … Continue reading →

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Album review: THIRSTY – Albatross

Posted on September 29, 2016 by jason

Thirsty Music [Release date 07.11.16] A fine extension to 2015’s self-titled debut album, ‘Albatross’ finds Thirsty exactly as we left them. With 11 tracks coming in at bang on 33 minutes, the band are sticking to their formula of great … Continue reading →

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Album review: AYNSLEY LISTER – Eyes Wide Open

Posted on September 27, 2016 by jason

www.aynsleylister.co.uk [Release date 07.10.16] Aynsley Lister seems to be forever on the road touring, however he does manage to get some recording in as this album is his eight studio album (plus three live albums). What attracts me to Aynsley … Continue reading →

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Album review: PETE TOWNSHEND’s DEEP END – Face The Face

Posted on September 26, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

Eagle Rock [Release date 16.09.16] CD/DVD Back in 1985/86 Pete Townshend played a number of promotional/benefit gigs on the back of his 1985 solo concept album White City: A Novel – a bleak cultural observation of life on a West … Continue reading →

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Album review: EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER – Reissues (2)

Posted on September 25, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

BMG [Release date 30.09.16] To many Emerson, Lake & Palmer represented the worst excesses of prog rock – a genre that was destined to have its collective arse kicked in the late-1970s. This latest tranche of remasters does demonstrate why … Continue reading →

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Album review: KONGOS – Egomaniac

Posted on September 24, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

RCA [Release date 10.06.16] When your Dad is the hit single selling Lennon-lookalike John Kongos (He’s Gonna Step On You Again, Tolokoshe Man) there’s a double-edged sword to potentially fall on with your (third) album release. Firstly unfair bunk up … Continue reading →

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Album review: MECCA – III

Posted on September 22, 2016 by jason

MelodicRock Records [Release date 14.10.16] It seems ages since the last Mecca album came out, ‘Undeniable’, although in fact it came out in 2011 and not that long in some bands eyes. However, this third album has been recorded over … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE LIVESAYS – Hold On…Life Is Calling

Posted on September 21, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

[Release date 03.10.16] This is a highly likeable album from a long-time sideman with Clarence Clemons, Bruce Springsteen’s sax player. I half expected some reflected, fist-pumping material in the All-American way. But no, Billy Livesay follows his own path and, … Continue reading →

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Album review: STEFAN BERGGREN – Stranger In A Strange Land

Posted on September 20, 2016 by jason

Pride & Joy Music [Release date 28.10.16] Stefan Berggren has fronted a few bands in his time, most notably Snakes In Paradise (who return next year with a new album on the Frontiers label) and Company Of Snakes, plus he … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE RADIO SUN – Outside Looking In

Posted on September 20, 2016 by jason

MelodicRock Records [Release date 30.09.16] The Radio Sun return with album number three and again Paul Laine (ex-Danger Danger) handles production duties and sings co-lead vocal on ‘Wink & Smile’ (one of the album’s stand out songs). There is a … Continue reading →

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Album review: ANGELS OR KINGS – Go Ask The Moon!

Posted on September 18, 2016 by jason

AOR Heaven [Release date 30.10.16] Angels Or Kings started out back in the 1980′s but it wasn’t until 2014 when the band got back together that they actually got to finally release their debut album. That was a corker, chock … Continue reading →

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Album review: THOSE DAMN CROWS – Murder And The Motive

Posted on September 15, 2016 by jason

[Release date 26.09.16] Those Damn Crows is vocalist Shane Greenhall, drummer Ronnie Huxford, bass player Lloyd Wood and guitarists Ian “Shiner” Thomas and David Winchurch. They hail from Bridgend, Wales home to the metal beast that is Bullet For My … Continue reading →

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Album review: STATUS QUO – Aquostic II – That’s A Fact!

Posted on September 14, 2016 by david.wilson

Universal Music [Release date 21.10.16] Over the years a myth has grown up around Quo that all songs sound the same and that their songs amount to the ABC of rock, three chords, heads down, see you at the end. … Continue reading →

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News: MARILLION – new album, tour dates and Steve Rothery interview (September 2016)

Posted on September 13, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

This hour special was broadcast in the first hour of David Randall’s weekly show ‘Assume The Position’ on Sunday 18 September at 22:00 GMT on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. More information Marillion release their latest album on 23 September … Continue reading →

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Album review: DEE SNIDER – We Are The Ones

Posted on September 13, 2016 by jason

earMUSIC [Release date 21.10.16] With Twisted Sister all but done now, Dee Snider is forging ahead with his solo career and this is only his third solo outing. His last solo effort was 2012′s ‘Dee Does Broadway’ and lets face … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: CRANSTON, CRUZH, THE LUCID DREAM

Posted on September 13, 2016 by jason

CRANSTON www.philvincentbands.com [Release date 22.07.16] Phil Vincent is a prolific solo and band artist who never drops the quality. Cranston is his latest incarnation and he is joined by Paul Sabu (Only Child/Sabu) on this one. Phil takes on the … Continue reading →

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Album review: BIRDEATSBABY – Tanta Furia

Posted on September 12, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

[Release date 07.11.16] Birdeatsbaby. The band name alone, dreamt up by flame haired maniacal frontwoman Mishkin Fitzgerald, is designed to antagonise, to provoke reaction. And that spills over into the band’s material – their modus operandi to poke sharp sticks … Continue reading →

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Album review: SIMON TOWNSHEND – Reissues

Posted on September 12, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

Stir Records [Release date 07.10.16] As The Who move inexorably towards their final hoorah, Pete Townshend’s brother Simon – a mere nipper at the age of 55, and a part of the touring band for the past 20 years – … Continue reading →

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Album review: – KISSIN’ DYNAMITE – Generation Goodbye

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Phil Berisford

AFM Records [Release date 08.07.16] German modern hard rock band Kissin’ Dynamite are back with their fifth studio album “Generation Goodbye” and somehow they keep on improving! Previous release “Megalomania”, from September 2014, was a wonderful slice of modern melodic … Continue reading →

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Album review: DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – Transcendence

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Yiannis

Inside Out [Release date 09.09.16] Innovative, daring, experimental, compositionally challenging, surprising, addictive…check any review for a Devin Townsend Project album, either online or in any of the specialized musical magazines which help promote our beloved music around the globe, and … Continue reading →

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Album review: SECOND RELATION – Eno

Posted on September 11, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

Long Branch/SPV [Release date 23.09.16] Described as “progressive rockers”, this Austrian band are in fact probably difficult to pigeon hole. The title of the album might also be confusing. At first I thought it was a new offering by Eno … Continue reading →