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Album review: LAZARUS DREAM – Alive

Posted on November 10, 2020 by jason

Pride & Joy Music [Release date 13.11.20] Lazarus Dream was put together by vocalist Carsten Lizard Shultz (Evidence One, Domain, Dead Heroes Club) and guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Markus Pfeffer (Scarlett, Winterland). Joining the pair are drummer Markus Kullmann (Sinner, Glenn Hughes), percussionist … Continue reading →

Album review: ALIEN – Into the Future

Posted on November 9, 2020 by andynathan

AOR Heaven [Release Date 27.11.20] One of the original wave of Scandi AOR bands at the end of the eighties, Alien’s return with their original line up was one of the stories of the early 2010’s. They followed up two … Continue reading →

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Album review: MARK VICKNESS – Interconnected

Posted on November 9, 2020 by GRTR! HQ

www.markvickness.com [Release date 15.09.20] Mark Vickness is a classically trained guitarist but has also worked in jazz and fusion genres. He freely mixes world flavours with classical/acoustic/rock. On ‘Interconnected’ he is joined by some talented collaborators such as the Grammy … Continue reading →

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Album review: BLUE OCTOBER – This Is What I Live For

Posted on November 7, 2020 by jason

Up/Down – Brando Records [Release date 23.10.20] The tenth studio album from Blue October recorded during the current pandemic. All bar two of the album’s thirteen songs were solely written by Justin Furstenfeld. Producer Eric Holtz is another key element … Continue reading →

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Album review: JUBILLEE – You and I

Posted on November 6, 2020 by jason

Vacancy Records [Release date 06.11.20] A Scottish country music duo? Really? As a Scotsman I somehow feel that this is a stretch of credibility – you know, quite a tenuous line to Nashville. However I immediately hold my hand up … Continue reading →

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Album review: CLASSIC ARCHIVES – Hurricane Smith

Posted on November 5, 2020 by jason

Angel Air [Release date 12.11.20] We could ask you to name the RAF Glider pilot who later had a number one hit single on the US Billboard Top Forty. But you know the answer, of course you do. Norman ‘Hurricane’ … Continue reading →

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Album review: ROBIN TROWER, MAXI PRIEST, LIVINGSTONE BROWN – United State Of Mind

Posted on November 5, 2020 by petefeenstra

Manhaton [Release date 09.10.20] By the time listener’s read a review like this they will probably have got used to the idea of an unlikely soul collaboration by three disparate talents from three different musical backgrounds, albeit bass playing producer Livingstone Brown … Continue reading →

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Album review: STORM WARNING – Different Horizons

Posted on November 4, 2020 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to Storm Warning’s frontman Stuart Maxwell in January 2021, playing tracks from the album ‘Different Horizons’. Lightnin’ Fingers [Release date 06.11.20] Different Horizons is that rare thing, a finely honed mature album by a heritage rock- band, full … Continue reading →

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Album review: MARTIN SIMPSON – Home Recordings

Posted on November 3, 2020 by jason

Topic Records [Release date 13.11.20] Martin Simpson’s next album was going to be a live one but the first lockdown put paid to all that. Unable to play to audiences (he can average over 100 gigs a year) or go … Continue reading →

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Album Review: KING KING – Maverick

Posted on November 2, 2020 by jason

Channel 9 Music [Release date 06.11.20] With a second lockdown, miserable British weather and little sign of something vaguely resembling normality returning any time soon a new King King album is probably just the antidote we need. Driving rhythms, fat … Continue reading →

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Album review: TIM ARNOLD – When Staying Alive’s The Latest Craze

Posted on November 1, 2020 by jason

Bandcamp [Release date 06.11.20] It cannot be denied that lockdown and the coronavirus has been a huge strain on all of us, especially as much of the world enters a second round of lockdowns. On 23 March 2020, the day … Continue reading →

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Album review: BLACK ROSE – S/T

Posted on October 31, 2020 by jason

Rock Candy [Release date 09.10.20] 1980: on the surface, Black Rose had little going for it. And yet Cher, guitarist Les Dudek’s part time girlfriend, fronted the band. Strangely, it played down Cher’s involvement. To its cost. The band’s one … Continue reading →

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Album review: HEAVEN – Where Angels Fear To Tread

Posted on October 31, 2020 by jason

Rock Candy Records [Release date 09.10.20] Australia’s tough as teak rock bands. There were four: AC/DC, The Angels, Cold Chisel and Rose Tattoo. But there was also a fifth…Heaven. They had formed in 1980′s Sydney. The band’s vocalist, Scottish born … Continue reading →

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Album review: PRIDE OF LIONS – Lion Heart

Posted on October 28, 2020 by andynathan

Frontiers Records [Release Date 09.10.20] Approaching 70, maestro songwriter and Survivor founder member Jim Peterik is showing no signs of slowing down. After last year’s World Stage release with a star studded casts of guest vocalists, and co-writing much of … Continue reading →

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Album review: MALIBOOZ – QE2

Posted on October 28, 2020 by jason

Red Steel Music [Release date 30.10.20] Malibooz is John Zambetti and Walter Egan. Their individual and collective pedigrees are incontestable. Their songs have been used multiple times in movies, including “Catch Me If You Can” and “I Robot”. The music … Continue reading →

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Album review: MUDDY MANNINEN – River Flows

Posted on October 28, 2020 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to Muddy Manninen about the album ‘River Flows’ for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 8 November 2020. (45:38) Presence Records [Release date 23.10.20] Muddy Manninen’s ‘River Flows’ is an aptly titled album that has a … Continue reading →

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Album review: FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – A Decade Of Destruction Vol. 2

Posted on October 27, 2020 by david.wilson

Better Noise Music [Release date 09.10.20] This album is the second ‘greatest hits’ package that FFDP have released following on from Volume 1 back in 2017. It has proved to be a very aptly timed release as it neatly rounds … Continue reading →

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Album review: PROCOL HARUM – Something Magic

Posted on October 27, 2020 by jason

Cherry Red/Esoteric Recordings [Release Date 30.10.20] Procol Harum certainly needed to spin a spell or two after new US producers, Ron and Howie Albert, threw out half the songs they’d written for “Something Magic”, their 9th album. This was 1977. … Continue reading →

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Album review: SILVERA – Edge Of The World

Posted on October 27, 2020 by david.wilson

Mighty Music [Release date 16.10.20] With worldwide lockdowns and the inability to get out on tour many bands over the last few months have taken to the studio as a refuge from the real world. As a result of this … Continue reading →

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Album review: DGM – Tragic Separation

Posted on October 27, 2020 by jason

Frontiers [Release date 09.10.20] Tenth album from Italian Prog Metallers, DGM. In which they examine the notion that the journey (of life) is more important than the destination. With all of the tracks, there’s a direct correlation between the events … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE LIVESAYS – The Rhythm of Love and Dysfunction

Posted on October 25, 2020 by jason

Website [Release date 20.09.20] The Livesays are a five-piece rock band fronted by the band’s namesake singer/songwriter/guitarist Billy Livesay, who spent 12 years performing, recording and touring with E-Streeter Clarence Clemons’ band Temple of Soul. Drummer Howard Goldberg was a … Continue reading →

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Album review: ADAM’S CURSE – What The Ancients Knew About Us

Posted on October 25, 2020 by jason

In this audio showcase, first broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Bat Kinane talks us through his musical influences, his musical journey, and featuring his new band Adam’s Curse. Bad Reputation [Release date 10.11.20] Adam’s Curse is a new … Continue reading →

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Album review: BLUE OYSTER CULT – The Symbol Remains

Posted on October 24, 2020 by jason

Frontiers [Release date 09.10.20] Born of the time of Covid, Blue Oyster Cult’s first album in 20 years, “The Symbol Remains”, announces the band as born again survivors. And indeed survivors who, thank god, haven’t neglected entertainment for the sake … Continue reading →

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Album review: STARDUST – Highway To Heartbreak

Posted on October 24, 2020 by jason

Frontiers [Release date 09.10.20] Debut album from (very) talented newcomers, Stardust. In the world inhabited by melodic rock fans, very good pastiches of Eighties’ AOR get the utmost respect. The era’s distinctively polished, precision calibrated, hook heavy hard rock is … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE COMPULSIONS – Ferocious

Posted on October 22, 2020 by jason

Indie [Release date 13.11.20] The Compulsions have a long pedigree of fine musicians from the likes GnR to the New York Dolls to Bowie, and it shows – this is rock n roll at its finest and the album proves … Continue reading →