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Album review: PARIS- The World Outside
(Release Date 01.07.16) France is not best known as a hotbed of melodic rock, but singer/keyboardist Frederic Dechevanne and guitarist Sebastien Montet and their band named after the French capital represent one of the the best attempts yet from a … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, melodic rock, NEWMAN, Paris
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Album review: APOCALYPTICA – Plays Metallica By Four Cellos (20th Anniversary Edition)
Odyssey Music Network [Release date 22.07.16] Metallica played by a string quartet? Keen-eared readers will know that this isn’t such a wayward proposition. Back in 1999 Hetfield’s Heroes recorded a live album with the San Francisco Symphony demonstrating the tunes … Continue reading
Quick plays: DANA IMMANUEL, EVE SELIS
DANA IMMANUEL & THE STOLEN BAND Come With Me [Release date 05.08.16] A curious release, coming reasonably hot on the heels of banjo-toting, whiskey-drinking north London based singer-songwriter Dana Immanuel’s last album Dotted Lines which attracted a 4 star GRTR! … Continue reading
Album review: EVELINE’S DUST – The Painkeeper
[Release date 11.03.16] Italian prog anyone? Inspired by the usual suspects – King Crimson, Genesis, et al, and current exponents like Steven Wilson, Eveline’s Dust – a four piece Pisa, Tuscany – have produced a rather fine follow up to … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Eveline's Dust, Italian, prog, progressive, review, rock, The Painkeeper
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Quick plays: deVIENCE, LOVE AND A .38
deVIENCE – S/T Broken Road Records If you’ve been writing reviews for a while every now and then you stumble across a debut album that slips into your record collection and stays there for years, and the self-titled debut effort … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, DeVience, Gio Spano, Hiva Oa, Love and A .38, Nomads, review, rock, southern
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Album review: ZUCCHERO – Black Cat
Polydor/Universal [Release date 29.04.16] Zucchero may not be that well known in the UK, although I remember his sterling version of Las Palabras de Amor’ at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert back in 1992. This album has already topped his … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Cat, blues, Bono, Brendan O'Brien, Italian, Mark Knopfler, pop, review, rock, T Bone Burnett, U2, Zucchero
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Album review: SCORPION CHILD – Acid Roulette
Nuclear Blast [Release date 10.06.16] Save Save Second album by Scorpion Child, a five piece hailing from the US consisting of Aryn Jonathan Black (vocals), Christopher Jay Cowart (guitar), Jon “Charn” Rice (drums), Alec “Caballero” Padron (bass) and Aaron John … Continue reading
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Tagged Acid Roulette, album, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, review, riffs, rock, Rush, Scorpion Child, Stoner
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Album review: MOJO PREACHERS – Confessions
www.mojopreachers.com Okay, I’ll admit I was one of those who thought the only good thing that came out of Norwich was the A11 but hold up….seems like if you stumble into any Norfolk bar of an evening these days, you’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Confessions, Mojo Preachers, review, rock
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Album review: IRON SAVIOR – Titancraft
AFM Records [Release date 20.05.16] Iron Savior’s ninth studio release “Titancraft” features more of the same from the German power metal band…namely science fiction inspired Teutonic metal a la Primal Fear/Helloween. Main-man Piet Sielck (vocals, guitar) is back again and … Continue reading
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Tagged AFM, album, IRON SAVIOR, Jan-Sören Eckert, Joachim Küstner, Piet Sielck, power metal, review, Thomas Nack, Titancraft
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Album review: MARTIN TURNER – Reissues
Cherry Red [Release date 08.04.16] Martin Turner albums are like buses. There’s nothing, and then along come several. That’s no problem as the one-time Wishbone Ash bassist always maintains a high quality quotient and they are worth the wait even … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Argus, Life Begins, Martin Turner, New Live Dates, prog, progressive, review, rock, Ted Turner, Wishbone Ash
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Album review: DARE – Sacred Ground
Legend Records [Release date 15.07.16] Dare return with their first all new album since 2009′s ‘Arc Of The Dawn’ – although we did have ‘Calm Before The Storm 2′ in 2012 which was a re-recording/revamp of the 1998 album of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Celtic, Dare, Darren Wharton, melodic, review, rock, Sacred Ground, Thin Lizzy, Vinnie Burns
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Album review: RICH ROBINSON – Flux
Eagle Rock Entertainment [Release date 24.06.16] Following on from his recent re-issue campaign comes the release of ‘Flux’- the 4th solo studio album from former Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson, and in my mind, his best solo effort to date. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Crowes, blues, Flux, review, Rich Robinson, rock
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Album review: THE ROLLING STONES – Totally Stripped
Eagle Rock [Release date 03.06.16] CD/DVD/Bluray Originally recorded and released in 1995, The Rolling Stones’ “Stripped” album has been given an overhaul and is being re-released as “Totally Stripped”. The live recordings are more pared down than acoustic and have … Continue reading
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Tagged 1995, album, documentary, interview, live, reissue, review, rock, The Rolling Stones, Totally Stripped
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Album review: THE SLAMBOVIAN CIRCUS OF DREAMS – A Box Of Everything
Red River [Release date 16.06.16] Who? And where the hell is Slambovia? Not another Eastern European bloc state looking to dig its snout into the EU feeding trough? No, it’s a state of mind of a New York indie outfit … Continue reading
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Tagged A Box Of Everything, album, compilation, psych, psychedelic, review, rock, roots, The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams
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Quick plays: MIKKO JOENSUU, ODDITY, VINNIE MOORE
MIKKO JOENSUU Amen 1 An ambitious musical adventure here from Mikko Joensuu as this album is the first part of a planned trilogy of albums. This is a very sparse album, in that Mikko’s vocals are the main focus backed … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alternative, Amen 1, Americana, country, folk, guitarist, Hidden City, metal, Mikko Joensuu, Oddity, Press Hard, Reds' Cool, review, rock, Settle Down, SPV, The Cult, Vinnie Moore
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Album review: JOE LOUIS WALKER – Everybody Wants A Piece
On Sunday 12 June 2016 at 20:00 GMT Pete Feenstra chats to Joe Louis Walker on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio and plays tracks from the new album More information Provogue [Release date 09.10.15] If bluesman Joe Louis Walker career … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Danny Kirwan, Frank Sinatra, funk, guitar, Joe Louis Walker, Johnny Winter, Marty Balin, Michael Bloomfield, Otis Redding, Paul Nelson, Ramsey Lewis, review, rock, soul, Taj Mahal, The Boss Talkers, The Spiritual Corinthians
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Album review: SUNSTORM- Edge Of Tomorrow
Frontiers [Release date 03.06.10] Sunstorm have never been a band as such, but the name given to a Frontiers Records studio project which is now four albums strong over a decade, the one common link being Joe Lynn Turner’s evergreen … Continue reading
Album review: TED POLEY- Beyond The Fade
Frontiers [Release date 13.05.16] A matter of weeks after some erstwhile bandmates produced one of the albums of the year with the Defiants, Danger Danger singer Ted Poley responds with his own latest solo album. A solo album is usually … Continue reading
Album review: RAY WILSON – Song For A Friend
Jaggy D Records [Release date 03.06.16] What a beauty of an album this is! Stiltskin frontman and ex-Genesis lead singer, Ray Wilson’s fifth solo album, “Song For A Friend” oozes quality and empathy – epitomizing heart-felt balladry throughout. Lots of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Genesis, Ray Wilson, review, singer, Song For A Friend, songwriter, Stiltskin
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Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD) July-September 2016
Compiled by Jason Ritchie July 2016 1st BLINK 182 ‘California’ FATES WARNING ‘Theories Of Flight’ Inside Out WOLF HOFFMANN (ACCEPT) ‘Headbangers Symphony’ Nuclear Blast OUTLASTED ‘Into The Light’ MelodicRock Records PAIN OF SALVATION ‘Remedy Lane Re:visited (Re:mixed & Re:lived)’ InsideOutMusic … Continue reading
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Tagged album, CD, DVD, forthcoming, July-September 2016, New releases
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Album review: BEN CRAVEN – Last Chance To Hear
Tuneleak Records [Release date: 29.03.16] Ben Craven is an Australian multi-instrumentalist – self-described as a ‘cinematic progressive rock singer-songwriter’. ‘Last Chance To Hear’ is his third studio album to date following ‘Two False Idols’ in 2005 and 2011’s ‘Great … Continue reading
Album review: BIG BIG TRAIN – Folklore
www.bigbigtrain.com [Release date 27.05.16] Big Big Train return with their first full studio album since 2013, last year’s EP ‘Wassail’ was a nice stop gap and the title track is on this album. Also since their last album they have … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Big Big Train, Dave Gregory, folk, Folklore, pastoral, prog, progressive, review, rock, XTC
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Quick plays: MICHAEL McDERMOTT, ANNIE KEATING, MISS RABBIT
MICHAEL McDERMOTT Willow Springs Having only just reviewed The Westies – Six On The Out, a vehicle for singer songwriter Michael McDermott, it was something of a surprise to find his 10th solo album land a matter of only weeks … Continue reading
Album review: JON KENZIE – From Wanderlust
Membran [Release date 01.07.16] Way back in 2009 I reviewed the eponymous debut by Beggar Joe a promising Manchester quintet that fell into the blues jazz genre, tempered by a side salad of rock and soul. A ‘late night/early hours’ … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Beggar Joe, blues, From Wanderlust, Jon Kenzie, review, rock, roots, singer, songwriter
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Album review: WILD PONIES – Radiant
No Evil Records [Release date 10.06.16] Essentially a Nashville-based duo of Doug (guitars and vocals) and Telisha (bass and vocals) Williams, Radiant is Wild Ponies sophomore release, coming on the back of their well-received Ray Kennedy-produced debut Things That Used … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Americana, Doug Williams, folk, Radiant, review, rock, singer, songwriter, Telisha Williams, Wild Ponies
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