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Tag Archives: album
Album review: FIRST TIME FLYERS – Bound To Break
Website [Release date 12.09.25] This is their debut album – get out of here, you gotta be kidding me!!! Seriously, the maturity of the songwriting, the palpable chemistry of the four artists, the harmonies, all seem way beyond a debut … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bound to Break, country, country pop, First Time Flyers, Lady A, pop, review, The Wandering Hearts
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Album review: VARIOUS ARTISTS – A Tribute to Clifton Chenier
Valcour Records This album has been out since June, but I felt duty bound to bring your attention to it. Released on Valcour Records, it features Mick, Keith and Ronnie, and whole host of other heavyweight Zydeco, Cajun and country … Continue reading
Album review: BLACKLIST UNION – Slay The Dragon
BLU Records [Release date 12.09.25] Los Angeles based Blacklist Union are a band I highly recommend checking out if you haven’t before now, and they are about to release their 6th album “Slay The Dragon”. Having highly rated the band’s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blacklist Union, Guns 'N' Roses, hard rock, review, rock, Slay the Dragon, The Cult
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Album review: DEEP PURPLE – Rapture Of The Deep (20th Anniversary Edition)
earMusic [Release date 05.09.25] Released in October 2005, Deep Purple’s 18th studio album gets a well deserved reissue. This wonderful album was the 2nd to feature pianist Don Airey and 4th with guitarist Steve Morse. Many still imagine this album … Continue reading
Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD/Bluray) 2026
Compiled by Jason Ritchie Please check artist and venue websites for latest information. Your release not listed? Contact us! To search quickly within this page (“Find In Page”): Press Ctrl+F (on Windows PC, Chromebook, or Linux system), or Command+F (on … Continue reading
Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD/Bluray) 2025
Compiled by Jason Ritchie To search quickly within this page (“Find In Page”): Press Ctrl+F (on Windows PC, Chromebook, or Linux system), or Command+F (on a Mac) on the keyboard. The “F” stands for “Find,” and it works in every … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025, album, blues rock, Bluray, CD, classic rock, DVD, hard rock, heavy rock, melodic rock, metal, New releases, Progressive Rock, reissue, singer songwriter
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Album review: TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND and Leon Russell Present – Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited, Live at Lockn’
Concord [Release date 12.09.25] Tedeschi Trucks Band’s ‘Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited’ ticks most of the right boxes in honoring the music of the original live album and the band does what it says on the tin! Unsurprisingly, it struggles … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Anders Osborne, Chris Robinson, Chris Stainton, Claudia Lenear, Dave Mason, Derek Trucks, JOE COCKER, John Bell, Leon Russell, Live at Lockn', Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited, Pamella Holland, review, Rita Coolidge, Susan Tedeschi, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Warren Haynes
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Album review: ELIZABETH & JAMESON – Way Out West
Website [Release date 03.10.25] If their married life is as harmonious as their vocal harmonies, then they should see at least their ruby wedding anniversary. Presenting their second album, Way Out West after a five year gap since their debut, Hannah … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Elizabeth & Jameson, folk, harmonies, Mamas and Papas, review, Way Out West
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Album review: PEACE OF MIND – Blood Is the Price
Bandcamp [Release date 05.09.25] In my mind, when I think of underground metal, I think of Germany. Many great bands have hailed from Germany, Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and the mighty Rammstein to name a few. And I believe Peace of Mind … Continue reading
Album review: LIGHTSPEED – Delta
Website [Release date 15.09.25] Back in 2006 Canadian prog rockers Lightspeed released their third album ‘Waves’ and now we have their fourth album, ‘Delta’, which has had a challenging creation which including the passing of the band’s guitarist Gene Murray … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, classic rock, Delta, Gene Murray, Lightspeed, pomp rock, prog rock, review, rock, Rod Chappell
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Album review: ANNA LING – Light
Bandcamp [Release date 29.09.25] Now I’m going to contradict myself in this opening paragraph. This album, Light, is the most original and unique collection of songs I have heard for a long long time. And here is the contradiction, it … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Anna Ling, Light, review, singer, songwriter
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Album review: FAIRPORT CONVENTION – Gladys’ Leap
Talking Elephant [Release date 04.08.25] In 1979 Fairport Convention decided to call it a day, not least because their mainman violinist Dave Swarbrick had serious hearing difficulties. It would be another six years before they reformed, apparently buoyed up by … Continue reading
Album review: STEVE HEWITT – Never Two Days The Same
Facebook [Release date 26.09.25] It’s a creeper this album. At first I put it in the Jack Johnson, David Gray area of music. Kind of easy listening folk music, pleasant enough but not a lot of depth. But scratch beneath … Continue reading
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Tagged album, folk, Never Two Days the Same, review, singer songwriter, Steve Hewitt
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Album review: SUSY WALL – Black Lights
Bandcamp [Release date 05.09.25] The Black Country, England’s Midlands, home of Black Sabbath. And Susy Wall, but Susy Wall is not heavy metal, she is more delicate porcelain, with a voice like crystal glass, pure and refined, and dare I say … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Black Lights, folk, review, singer songwriter, Susy Wall
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Album review: GLENN HUGHES – Chosen
Frontiers [Release date: 05.09.25] It’s been nearly a decade since Glenn Hughes’ last solo album. But he’s no slouch. He’s contributed to any number of albums by other artists not least Black Country Communion (BCC). This does beg the question: … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Country Communion, Chosen, classic rock, Deep Purple, Glenn Hughes, hard rock, review, Trapeze
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Album review: FM- Brotherhood
Frontiers Records (Release Date 05.09.25) You can set your watch by the fact that FM will release a new album every other year since 2018, no mean feat considering they seem to be perpetually on tour. Given that the live … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Brotherhood, FM, Jem Davis, Jim Kirkpatrick, melodic rock, Steve Overland
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Album review : SWEET FREEDOM – Blind Leading The Blind
Frontiers [Release date : 29.08.25] Swedish band Sweet Freedom is the real deal. Head and shoulders above most others walking the Classic Rock road nowadays (even if occasionally going off tangentially). The band: founder member Jorgen Schelander’s background is in … Continue reading
Album review: ROULETTE – Go!
Black Lodge Records [Release Date 25.07.25] Swedish melodic rockers Roulette have had a chequered history- around since the eighties, they never got as far as releasing an album till 2008. It was another eleven years before a very well received … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Go!, melodic rock, review, Roulette, Thomas Lundgren
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Album review : ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL: The UK Pop Explosion 1967-69
Cherry Red [Release date 22.08.25] All Things Bright And Beautiful comprises of 82 tracks and 3 CDs. Several of the songs in the boxset were used to launch the first hour of the BBC’s pop music flagship, Radio One, in … Continue reading
Album review: LUKE MORLEY – Walking On Water
Website [Release date 01.08.25] Thunder guitarist Luke Morley has been a busy chap whilst Thunder remains on hiatus as frontman Danny Bowes continues his recovery from a stroke in 2022. Morley returned to his solo career with his second solo … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, guitarist, Luke Morley, melodic, Quireboys, review, rock, Solo, Thunder, Walking On Water
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Album review: WALTER TROUT – Sign Of The Times
Provogue [Release date 05.09.25] Walter Trout’s ‘Sign of the Times’ is an uncompromising rock album with a bluesy heart and insightful lyrics penned by himself and his partner Marie Trout. It’s an album rich in story telling, unflinching social observation … Continue reading
Album review: FIRST LIGHT – Elemental
Pride and Joy Music [Release Date 25.07.25] There are not enough British AOR bands around, so it is always a pleasure when one arrives with some pedigree. First Light released an EP a couple of years ago and, on top … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Carl Sharples, Dave Hardman, First Light, melodic rock, Phil Manchester, Warren Passaro
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Album review: BEN GRANFELT – It’s Personal
Pete Feenstra chatted to Ben Granfelt for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio playing tracks from the new album ‘It’s Personal’. First broadcast 27 July 2025. A1 Records [Release date 30.05.25] ‘Its Personal’ is Ben Granfelt’s 21st solo album and his … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Stewart, album, Ben Granfelt, blues, fusion, Gringos Locos, guitar, Guitar Slingers, interview, It's Personal, Jari Saminen, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, JJ Cale, Los Bastardos Finlandeses, Masa Maijanen, Pink Floyd, review, Robin Trower, rock, soul, Stoney Curtis, The Leningrad Cowboys, Wishbone Ash
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Album review: STAR CIRCUS – From The Wreckage
Renaissance Records [Release date 13.06.25] There’s a big debate going on about the use of AI and whether it compromises modern music making and musicians. After a lifetime of exposure to classic rock I for one am receptive. Time and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, From The Wreckage, melodic rock, review, Star Circus
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Album review: VOODOO RAMBLE – In The Heart Of The City
www.voodooramble.com [Release date 01.07.25] Slowly but surely over the past few years our Blues Rock/Features Editor Pete Feenstra has been supplying lyrics and melodic ideas to a number of significant artists in the current blues rock scene. This is Pete’s … Continue reading
