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Album Review: WALTER TROUT – Luther’s Blues – A Tribute To Luther Allison

Posted on May 9, 2013 by petefeenstra

Provogue [Release date: 10.06.13] ‘A Tribute To Luther Allison’ is a triumph of ambition, focus and sheer ability over any semblance of self doubt, as Walter Trout successfully captures Luther Allison’s essential spirit. Such is Trout’s intrinsic feel for Luther’s … Continue reading →

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Gig review: SPOCK’S BEARD – The Garage, London, 7 May 2013

Posted on May 8, 2013 by jason

A very healthy turn out for a Tuesday night gig, swelled slightly by those here to see Sound Of Contact (including Marillion’s guitarist Steve Rothery). Sadly I only caught the tail end of opener’s Beardfish’s set who went down well … Continue reading →

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Album Review – LORD – Digital Lies

Posted on May 5, 2013 by david.wilson

Dominus Records (Release date – out now) Lord started out life as Dungeon in the depths of the Australian outback. They relocated to Sydney and had a successful career, releasing 9 albums and finding an audience across Australia and beyond, … Continue reading →

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Album review – MICHAEL SHEPHERD BAND – II

Posted on May 5, 2013 by david.wilson

Self Release (Release date – out now) There aren’t many rock bands from Luxembourg that spring to mind, in fact the Michael Shepherd Band could well be the first I have heard of. The band have been together for a … Continue reading →

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Album review: MAJESTIC – V.O.Z.

Posted on May 5, 2013 by alanjones

Self-released [Release date 17.12.12] In these days of risible TV talent shows where the sole ambition of the participants is the acquisition of fame and fortune (however transient that may be), the word ‘genius’ is frequently bandied about to describe … Continue reading →

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Album review: CITY REIGN – Another Step

Posted on May 5, 2013 by jason

Car Boot Records The heavy guitar lead “Another Step”is the debut album from Manchester quartet City Reign, and is an expressive burst of story, doing indie how indie should be done. The tracks were all recorded in Salford’s Scared Trinity … Continue reading →

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Album review: H.I.M. – Tears On Tape

Posted on May 5, 2013 by jason

Cooking Vinyl His Infernal Majesty aren’t the sort of band to go reinventing themselves for every album, and Tears On Tape pretty much follows the usual musical formula found in some of their older records, but Ville Valo and co. … Continue reading →

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Album review: KINGDOM COME – Outlier

Posted on May 4, 2013 by jason

SPV www.spv.de [Release date: 29.04.13] Kingdom Come’s new “Outlier” album could more accurately be credited as a Lenny Wolf solo effort as the band’s main man handles everything bar the guitar solos, these being provided by Eric Forster. Wolf also … Continue reading →

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Album review: TOM KEIFER – The Way Life Goes

Posted on May 4, 2013 by jason

Merovee Records [Release date 29.04.13] For me, Cinderella always stood head and shoulders above the general hair metal bands that they would unfairly be lumped in with. With grittier songs, real feeling subject material and a more mature outlook the … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: KILL FOR EDEN, CIRCA, MELINDA ORTNER

Posted on May 4, 2013 by jason

KILL FOR EDEN – S/T www.killforeden.com Interestingly, anyone I have mentioned West London band Kill For Eden to has enthusiastically told me how good they are and the general feeling is that their debut, and self titled, album should do … Continue reading →

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Album review: TIME GRID – Life

Posted on May 4, 2013 by petefeenstra

Open Your Eyes Records [Release date: 21.01.13] Time Grid is French/Swiss prog metal band who have taken nearly a decade to realise their musical vision. ‘Life’ is by no means an unblemished slice of prog metal, but … Continue reading →

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Album review: CHASING VIOLETS – Jade Hearts

Posted on May 3, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

AOR Records [Release date 14.06.13] I think producer Frederic Slama compromised Chasing Violets’ debut album ‘Outside Heaven’ (2012) by re-using the songs (and the backing tracks) for his own project album ‘LA Temptation’. Slama is a respected LA-based AOR mover … Continue reading →

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Album review: CTHULHU RISE – 42

Posted on May 3, 2013 by petefeenstra

Musea Records This incredible heavy but inventive album may sometimes border on the cacophonous as it blasts away the cobwebs of complacency with monumental fractured riffs, but the underlying fast changing time signatures, unrelenting metal dirge (sludge metal anybody?) and … Continue reading →

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Album review: I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. – Mystery Drug

Posted on May 3, 2013 by petefeenstra

Blue Rose Records [Release date: 01.05.13] Alt-country outfit I See Hawks In L.A. are “dabblers” says their guitarist Paul Lacques. “There really are about 20 different ways to chop up country roots music”, he adds, while singer Rob Waller summarizes … Continue reading →

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Gig review: AUDREY HORNE, Camden Underworld, 2 May 2013

Posted on May 3, 2013 by jason

You often wonder why some bands are not bigger names than expected, when talking music with fellow fans. Threshold and their modest following in their native UK are often one that crops up and I’d add Audrey Horne who played … Continue reading →

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Album review: RUBEN HOEKE BAND – Loaded

Posted on May 3, 2013 by petefeenstra

Dimensions records [Release date: 23.03.13] Dutch Guitarist Ruben Hoeke is firmly established as both a guitarist in his own right as well as a high profile interviewer, radio presenter and festival booker. His guitar chops are certainly evidence on ‘Loaded’, … Continue reading →

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Gig review: DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – The Garage, Glasgow, 30 April 2013

Posted on May 2, 2013 by david.wilson

There is a fine line between genius and madness and it is one that Devin Townsend has been balancing on precariously for many years. I recall seeing him for the first time fronting Vai when they supported Aerosmith on their … Continue reading →

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Album review: STATUS QUO – Bula Quo

Posted on May 2, 2013 by jason

Fourth Chord Records/Warners (2CD) [Release date 10.06.13] Status Quo have gone silver screen in Kiss fashion with a film Bula Quo, shot in Fiji, with the band playing themselves. The film’s soundtrack (disc 1) features 9 new tracks and kicks … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: MARC RING, LENKA, THE PROWLERS

Posted on May 1, 2013 by jason

MARC RING – The Long Road Home www.marc-ring.co.uk Marc Ring was previously a member of folk rockers Jasper (who have recently had a re-issue campaign through Angel Air) and Good Thinking, who released a comeback album back in 2011. For … Continue reading →

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Album review: JAMES COTTON – Cotton Mouth Man

Posted on April 30, 2013 by petefeenstra

Alligator records [Release date: 06.05.13] Grammy award winning Chicago blues-harp legend James Cotton is back! Well he’s never really been away, but ill health robbed him of his vocals making it all the more remarkable that ‘Cotton Mouth Man’ is … Continue reading →

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Gig review: SUICIDAL TENDENCIES,DRI,Waking the Dead – Amos’ Southend,Charlotte,NC,26 April 2013

Posted on April 30, 2013 by jason

They say the sun shines on a dead dog’s ass from time to time. Can’t think of a more accurate cliché that fits my life. After a long ofrun of seeing some awesome shows it seemed that the well had … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE JAN HOLBERG PROJECT – Sense Of Time, At Your Service

Posted on April 29, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Sense Of Time (2011) Norwegian bassist Jan Holberg has a good philosophy outlined in his liner notes to 2011′s ‘Sense Of Time’: that with music there should be no boundaries. So in his first ‘solo’ venture he explores AOR and … Continue reading →

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Album review: TRUCKER DIABLO – Songs Of Iron

Posted on April 29, 2013 by david.wilson

Ripple Music [Release date – 13.05.13] Back in December 2011 Trucker Diablo’s first album ‘The Devil Rhythm’ dropped onto my door mat ripe for review. After listening to said disc my one issue with the album was that it had … Continue reading →

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Album review: JOHN NICKOLOFF – Get Out Of My Way

Posted on April 29, 2013 by petefeenstra

Independent/TSM [Release date: 02.05.13] John Nickoloff opens his debut 5 track EP/CD ‘Get Out Of My Way’ with hard rock pretensions but gradually moves towards radio friendly MOR material. Either way he’s got a great rock voice that effortlessly brings … Continue reading →

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Album review: SWEETKENNY – Jennifer’s Box Of Junk

Posted on April 29, 2013 by petefeenstra

Waterfall Records/TSM [Release date: 2013] ‘Jennifer’s Box of Junk’ is both a title and concept. As song writer/ guitarist Kenny Sutton explains: ‘each song had to be something you would put in a box of junk’. Make of that what … Continue reading →