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Album review: MIDNITE CITY- Bite The Bullet
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Album review: CHARLOTTE SMITH & DAVID CLIFTON – The Tree In The Wood
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Album review: JUDIE TZUKE – Now Or Never
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Album review: SPOCK’S BEARD – The Archaeoptimist
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Gig review: STEVE OVERLAND AND JIM KIRKPATRICK- The Weir, Brentford, Middlesex, 9 December 2025
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Gig review: JOHN OTWAY – Face Bar, Reading, Thursday 11 December 2025
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Gig review: CURVED AIR – The Sub Rooms, Stroud, 20 November 2025
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Album review: THE SENTON BOMBS – Mass Vendetta
7HardRecords [Release date 15.04.16] This is the Senton Bombs fourth album and they have been plugging away for the past decade. I have not heard any of their previous albums but based on this one I will soon remedy that … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Buckcherry, Guns 'N' Roses, Mass Vendetta, review, rock, sleaze, the Senton Bombs
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Quick plays: GAMMA RAY, FASSINE, SUSAN AQUILA, SHELOOM
GAMMA RAY Lust For Live (Anniversary Edition) earMUSIC [Release date 06.05.16] earMUSIC’s Gamma Ray back catalogue re-issues series continues with this live album, previously only available on video on its original release back in 1993. The show was recorded at … Continue reading
Album review: PAUL GILBERT – I Can Destroy
In the Pete Feenstra Feature on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sunday 8 May 2016 at 20:00 GMT, Pete chatted to Paul Gilbert, with tracks from the album ‘I Can Destroy’. More information earMUSIC [Release date 27.05.15] Paul Gilbert is … Continue reading
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Tagged 10CC, album, blues, guitar, I Can Destroy, interview, Kevin Shirley, metal, Mr Big, Paul Gilbert, pop, review, rock, Rory Gallagher, The Beatles, Todd Rundgren
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Album review: PLANET OF ZEUS – Loyal To The Pack
No prizes for guessing that Planet of Zeus hail from Greece and, having reviewed a couple of rather ear-catching things from that neck of the woods recently, it might just be time to go bar-hopping and check out the live … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Stone Cherry, Clutch, Loyal to the Pack, metal, Planet of Zeus, QOTSA, review, rock
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Album review: CHEAP TRICK – Boom Zoom Crazy…Hello
[Release date 01.14.16] Cheap Trick are back with their first album in a little while, ‘The Latest’ came out back in 2009. They have had a good year to date being inducted to the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Boom Zoom Crazy...Hello, Cheap Trick, classic, pop, review, Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander, rock
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Quick plays: THE CARS, JENNY GILLESPIE
THE CARS Moving In Stereo: The Best Of Rhino [Release date 06.05.16] This best of is released after a recent box set, ‘The Elektra Years 1978-87′ and covers the same period, with one song – ‘Sad Song’ – from the … Continue reading
Album review: ROBIN TROWER – Where You Are Going To
Manhaton [Release date 06.05.15] You don’t so much listen to a Robin Trower album these days as simply immerse yourself in his grooves. His combination of guitar artistry, syrupy grooves, heartfelt vocals and a constant search for the emotional core … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, funk, guitar, guitarist, Henrik Freischlader, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Green, review, Robin Trower, rock, Where You Are Going To
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Album review: FRASER ANDERSON – Under The Cover Of Lightness
Membran [Release date 06.05.16] Fraser Anderson is something of a well-kept secret. Unless you’re a regular Bob Harris listener. A Scot, who relocated to the southwest of France, Fraser Anderson’s 2003 debut ‘… and the girl with the strawberry’ was … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Fraser Anderson, pop, review, rock, singer, songwriter, Under The Cover Of Lightness
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Album review: MARCELLA DETROIT – Grey Matterz
[Release date 22.04.16] Synth = synthetic. Unfortunately, while that was de rigueur in the 80′s, it sounds a little clichéd several decades on. Gray Matterz, is however a reminder of a) what a good songwriter Detroit is, and b) what … Continue reading
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Tagged album, dance, electro, Grey Matterz, Marcella Detroit, pop, review, Shakespear's Sister
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Album review: DEAD LETTER CIRCUS – Aesthesis
Rodeostar/ SPV [Release date 22.04.16] Australian alt-rockers Dead Letter Circus have now been together for 11 years and this is their third album. The guys have had some high profile support slots over the years with the likes of Muse … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthesis, album, alternative, Big Day Out, Bono, Brisbane, CD, Dead Letter Circus, Kim Benzie, Linkin Park, Muse, review, rock, U2
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Album review: DUST BOWL JOKIES – Dust Bowl Jokies
Rodeostar/ SPV [Release date – 22.04.16] This is the second album by the Swedish sleaze rockers Dust Bowl Jokies following on from their debut released back in 2012. Swaggering sleaze/ glam rock is the order of the day here with … Continue reading
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Tagged Aerosmith, album, CD, Dust Bowl Jokies, glam, Michael Monroe, review, rock, Rolling Stones, sleaze, Sweden
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Quick plays: BLACK ACES, A REBEL FEW, 2 WEEKS
BLACK ACES Shot In The Dark (Bad Reputation) The trouble being an Australian rock band, and particularly one that plays blues rock at a certain speed, is that you are going to inevitably draw comparisons with Australia’s best known rock … Continue reading
Album review: DAN REED NETWORK – Fight Another Day
In the first hour of his weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, on 29 May 2016, David Randall chatted to Dan Reed and played tracks from the album ‘Fight Another Day’. Frontiers [Release date 03.06.16] When we encountered … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dan Reed, Dan Reed Network, Fight Another Day, funk, interview, melodic, metal, review, rock
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Album review: TREAT- Ghost Of Graceland
Frontiers Records [Release date 15.04.16] One of the pioneers, alongside the more famous Europe, of the definitive Scandinavian sound, Treat’s 2010 return ‘Coup de Grace’ features prominently in many lists of the best melodic rock albums of the last decade. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ghost of Graceland, melodic rock, review, Robert Ernlund, Scandinavia, Sweden, Treat
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Album review: THE DEFIANTS – The Defiants
Frontiers Records [Release Date 15.04.16] The Paul Laine era of Danger Danger, where the Canadian singer kept the flag flying during the wilderness years before the charismatic Ted Poley returned, is often unfairly neglected, not least in the band’s own … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bruno Ravel, Danger Danger, Defiants, Frontiers Records, melodic rock, Paul Laine, review, Rob Marcello
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Album review: ELIZA NEALS – Breaking and Entering
In this special hour-long feature, first broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Pete Feenstra chats to Eliza Neals about her music. E-H Records [Release date 20.02.15] ‘Breaking And Entering’ is a rip roaring rock/blues album with plenty of musical … Continue reading
Album review: LOS PACAMINOS – Reissues
LOS PACAMINOS A Fistful Of Statins/The Early Years Recdo Records [Release date 06.05.16] Los Pacaminos I remember seeing live a few years ago at the Borderline and they played an enjoyable, high energy show. The band play a mix of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Fistful Of Statins, album, Jamie Moses, live, Los Pacaminos, Paul Young, review, Ry Cooder, Tex Mex, The Early Years
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Album review: EPIC – Like A Phoenix
Escape Music www.escape-music.com [Release date 22.04.16] Never judge a book (or in this case CD) by its cover, as the band’s name Epic and cover artwork on this album may have you expecting a power or melodic metal album. It … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, epic, Escape Music, Heart, Like A Phoenix, melodic, review, rock, Witness
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Album review: HAKEN – Affinity
Inside Out www.insideout.de [Release date 29.04.16] Haken return with their fourth album and have a high bar to reach after their last album, the excellent ‘The Mountain’. The album also marks the first full length studio album to feature new-ish … Continue reading
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Tagged 80's prog, Affinity, album, Haken, Inside Out, LEPROUS, progressive, review, rock, Ross Jennings
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Album review: ORDEN OGAN – The Book of Ogan
AFM Records [Release date 25.03.16] “The Book of Ogan” would appear to be German power metal band Orden Ogan’s way of closing the first chapter of their career as it is a very impressive double CD double DVD package. What … Continue reading
Album review: KANSAS – Always Never The Same
Store For Music www.storeformusic.com An album overlooked in the Kansas catalogue being originally released back in 1998, three years after their last studio album ‘Freaks Of Nature’. I remember reading an interview back at that time where drummer Phil Ehart … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Always Never The Same, classic, Kansas, orchestral, Phil Ehart, prog, re-issue, review, rock, Steve Walsh, the Store For Music
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Album review: BEHOLDER – Reflections
Razorline [Release date 12.04.16] Since 2003 Beholder have been tearing venues up all around the country. The band from the UK Midlands have been flying the flag for British Heavy Metal and Progressive Metal in the underground scene amassing a … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Beholder, Gojira, Mastodon, metal, Progresive, progressive metal, Reflections, review, uk
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Album review: OYSTERBAND – This House Will Stand Best Of 1998-2015
Navigator Records [Release date 27.05.16] This is a 2CD, 29 song collection from the Oysterband covering their latter day output from 1998 to the present day. They started out back in 1977/78 as the Oyster Ceilidh Band before morphing into … Continue reading
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Tagged 1998-2015, album, best of, folk, June Tabor, Navigator Records, Oysterband, political, review, This House Will Stand, traditional
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Album review: EDU FALASCHI – Moonlight
Test Your Metal Records [Release date 20.05.16] I’ve been a passing fan of Angra a long time, but I would never call myself a diehard or super knowledgeable about them. What songs/albums I have heard I always enjoyed, but were … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Almah, ANGRA, Edu Falaschi, metal, Moonlight, power metal, review
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Album review: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
AFM Records [Release date 20.05.16] Flotsam and Jetsam are band I have had mixed feelings about over the years. Having been a huge thrash fan most of my life, and a huge fan of Metallica back in the day, there … Continue reading
