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Album review: MANDOKI SOULMATES – A Memory Of Our Future
Red Rock Music/Inside Out Music [Release date 10.05.24] I think it fair to say that Leslie Mandoki doesn’t do things half-arsed. Several years ago a couple of reissues were accompanied by an expansive press kit, a real thick tome that … Continue reading
Album review: T BEAR – The Way Of The World
Pete Feenstra chatted to T Bear for his feature show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio and featuring tracks from the new album ‘The Way Of The World’. First broadcast 19 May 2024. Quarto Valley Records [Release date 22.03.24] ‘Way … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Dr John, funk, interview, Laurence Juber, Leon Russell, Paul Rogers, radio, Randy Newman, review, Richard T Bear, rock, singer, songwriter, Steely Dan, T. Bear, The Beatles, Tony Braunagel, Walter Trout, Way of the World
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Album review: THESE WICKED RIVERS – Force Of Nature
Fat Earth Records [Released date 01.03.24] This is a perfectly formed second album from Derby’s finest. Formed in 2014, the band combine elements of southern, classic and heavy rock. The title track is a great calling card and guaranteed to … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, Force Of Nature, heavy rock, review, southern rock, These Wicked Rivers
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Album review: THE TREATMENT – Wake Up The Neighbourhood (plus album launch, 11 May 2024)
Frontiers [Release date 10.05.24] The Treatment have released their much-anticipated 6th studio album, “Wake Up The Neighbourhood”, after teasing us with singles that could only hint at the epic masterpiece that was to follow. For the uninitiated, The Treatment are … Continue reading
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Tagged album, album launch show, Cambridge, classic rock, Frontiers, gig, hard rock, Laurie Mansworth, Mansworth, MASH, NWOCR, review, rock, Saturday 11 May 2024, The Treatment, Tom Rampton, Wake Up The Neighbourhood
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Album review: MARISA AND THE MOTHS – What Doesn’t Kill You
Tonesick Records [Release date 03.05.24] I first became aware of Marisa And The Moths during Lockdown and they ultimately produced some excellent stripped back versions of their songs, not least a truly wonderful version of ‘Choke’. At that time they … Continue reading
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Tagged album, hard rock, heavy rock, Marisa And The Moths, review, What Doesn't Kill You
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Album review: ATTIC THEORY – What We Fear The Most
ThunderGun Records [Release date 26.04.24] It shows an album’s strength when four tracks are pre-released as “singles”. There could have been more. The debut album from this Liverpool band is a great example of burgeoning home grown talent in 2024. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Attic Theory, hard rock, heavy rock, review, What We Fear The Most
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Album review: TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN – Electrified
Rattle Shake Records [Release date 10.05.24] Album number six from Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown who still don’t look old enough to have made so many albums. Seemingly down to a trio of Tyler Bryant (vocals, guitar) Caleb Crosby (drums), … Continue reading
Album review: DEMON – Invincible
Frontiers [Release date 17.05.24] You’d be forgiven for thinking you’d stepped back in time to the late 70s/early 80s, as the first half of 2024 has seen new albums from the likes of Magnum, Saxon, Judas Priest, Praying Mantis, Tygers … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dave Hill, DEMON, hard rock, Invincible, melodic hard rock, metal, Neil Ogden, NWOBHM, review
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Album review: DEFECTS – Modern Error
Mascot Records [Release date 24.05.24] ‘Modern Error’ is breathtakingly raw with emotion. Conceptually, it is a deeply cathartic album that acts as a vessel for singer Tony Maue to organise his thoughts on the trauma of being taken into care … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Defects, Mascot records, metal, Modern Error, modern metal, review, Tony Maue
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Album review: JACK BADCOCK – Cosmography
www.jackbadcock.com [Release date 03.05.24] Jack Badcock is best known as frontman and founding member of Dallahan. After releasing ‘The Driftwood Project’ EP in 2021 we now arrive in 2024 and Jack Badcock releases his first solo album. Jack plays guitar, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cosmography, Dallahan, folk, Jack Badcock, jazz, prog, review, singer songwriter, Siobhan Miller
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Gig review: WALTER TROUT – The Alhambra Theater, Paris, 30 April 2024
Walter Trout in Paris is an opportunity not to be missed and so it proves as Walter and his road tested band bring a capacity seated audience to its feet On a personal note it’s 35 years since I first … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, ballads, beth Hart, blues, boogie, Brett Smith-Daniel, Canned Heat, Dee Snider, Don Nix, Floyd Lee, John Lee Hooker, John Mayall Blues Breakers, Jon Avila, Michael Leasure, review, rock, Roland Bakker, The Alhambra Theater, Walter Trout
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Album review: SHADES OF PLATO – Blackout
Platonic Arrangements [Release date 20.06.24] shadesofplato1.bandcamp.com/ Any album with a song title ‘Bacteria With Shoes’ demands attention. And you’ll find it on the third album from gothic rockers Shades Of Plato. By their own admission this album predicts a post-pandemic apocalypse … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blackout, hard rock, New Wave, prog, review, Shades Of Plato
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Album review: VARIOUS – Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King
Purple Pyramid Records [Release date 19.04.24] King Crimson’s 1969 album is one of the most significant and influential prog albums and here gets a fresh coat of paint courtesy of a stellar gathering of prog and fusion A listers. And, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Davey, album, Arthur Brown, Brian Auger, James LaBrie, Joe Lynn Turner, King Crimson, Mel Collins, Paul Rudolph, prog, Progressive Rock, Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King, review, Steve Hillage, Todd Rundgren
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Album review : FRANCIS ROSSI & HANNAH RICKARD – We Talk Too Much (2024 vinyl version with bonus track)
earMUSIC [Release date : 03.05.24] 2014’s Aquostic (Stripped Bare) was Status Quo’s first full blown tilt at “reimagining” older material in an acoustic set up. It was a big success, commercially and critically. It led to this collaboration between Francis … Continue reading
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Tagged album, bonus track, Cheap Trick, Francis Rossi, Hannah Rickard, Jeff Lyne, review, Vinyl, We Talk Too Much
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Album review: BIG BIG TRAIN – The Likes Of Us
Inside Out [Release Date: 01.03.24] When David Longdon tragically died in an accident at his home in 2021, Big Big Train, one of the finest folk/prog bands this country has produced, were shattered to the core. How could they continue … Continue reading
Album review: THE MILK MEN – Holy Cow!
Website [Release date 03.05.24] The Milk Men comprise of former Pirates drummer Mike Roberts, Lloyd Green (son of guitar legend Mick Green, also a member of the Pirates in the past) on bass, vocalist Jamie Smy, and guitarist Adam Norsworthy … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, Holly Cow!, review, rock, The Milk Men
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Album review: ROBIN TROWER – Bridge Of Sighs (50th Anniversary Edition)
Pete Feenstra chatted to Robin Trower for his show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 30 June 2024 Chrysalis (3CD/Blu Ray, 50th Anniversary Edition) [Release date 17.05.24] Blues/rock guitarist Robin Trower has had a long and distinguished career, … Continue reading
Album review: QUINN SULLIVAN – Salvation
Provogue [Release date 07.06.24] Quinn Sullivan’s “Salvation” is a guitar driven white boy soul album, with jagged edged funk and fleeting blues influences. It’s a well crafted album that pushes Quinn Sullivan further into a singer-songwriter direction with a broad … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Delbert McClinton, Earth Wind & Fire, Eric Gales, funk, Hall & Oates, Jimi Hendrix, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald, Quinn Sullivan, review, rock, Salvation, soul, Steve Ray Vaughan, Ten Years After, Walter Trout
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Album review: LEE AARON – Tattoo Me
Metalville [Release date 26.04.24] Lee Aaron is probably at that stage of life where she doesn’t have to please anyone. She still makes relevant albums and if her previous ‘Elevate’ was not quite up to ‘Radio On!’ (in 2021) they … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, cover versions, Covers, hard rock, Lee Aaron, review, Tattoo Me
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Album review: 25 YARD SCREAMER – The Memory Cheats (The Pictures Within 2023)
White Knight Records [Release date 24.01.24] 25yardscreamer.bandcamp.com/music 25 Yard Screamer, who we first reviewed back in 2005, are now typical of those solid bands who feed the gnarly backbone of prog rock without being touched by wider success or recognition. … Continue reading
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Tagged 25 Yard Screamer, album, prog, prog rock, Progressive Rock, review, The Pictures Within
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Album review: D’ERCOLE – Near Death Experience
Rock Company Records [Release date 25.04.24] Album number ten from D’Ercole (and goodness knows what number album this is to feature the talents of Phil Vincent!), who consist of Phil Vincent (vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass), Damian D’Ercole (guitars) and B.F. … Continue reading
Album review: BALANCE OF POWER – Fresh From The Abyss
Massacre Records [Release date 19.04.24] Balance of Power are a band this reviewer has been aware of, mainly for featuring former vocalist Lance King, but would never class myself as a fan. Balance Of Power seemingly went missing in action … Continue reading
Album review: DAVE KELLY – Sun On My Face
Repertoire [Release date 13.02.24] ‘Sun On My Face’ could easily be a metaphor for the veteran British blues artist Dave Kelly, who in the slipstream of The Blues Band’s retirement, can now enjoy exploring the formative influences that have helped … Continue reading
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Tagged acapella, album, Arthur Crudup, blues, Bob Hall, Brinsley Schwartz, cngwrter, Cole Porter, country, Dave Kelly, Dog Cox, folk, funk, Hank Williams, Homer Kelly, Joann Kelly, John Denver, Lou Stonebridge, Paul Jones, Pete Emery, review, Rob Millis, Sam Kelly, Smoky Robinson, Steve Simpson, Sun In My Face, Sun On My Face, The Blues Band, Tony McPhee
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Album review: A TREEHOUSE WAIT – Kaleidoscope
Volkoren [Release date 25.05.24] Singer songwriter Jenny Gajicki and producer Emil Sydhage have come together again for this latest piece of Scandi Noir (their debut ‘Interlude’ was in 2016). Jenny has a vocal delivery not dissimilar to the late Dolores … Continue reading
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Tagged A Treehouse Wait, album, alt rock, electronica, indie, indie pop, Kaleidoscope, review
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Album review: BLUE ÖYSTER CULT – Ghost Stories
Frontiers [Release date 12.04.24] Blue Öyster Cult have always been an enigma and this ‘new’ album continues that trend, or as the press blurb states – “This highly anticipated album marks a fitting finale to the recording legacy of one … Continue reading
