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Album review: DAVID PALFREYMAN – Opening Time For The Battered
Bandcamp [Release date 26.09.25] David Palfreyman has released music in various guises in the past, including 2017’s ‘Decades’, a concept album with Nicholas Pegg. ‘Opening Time for the Battered’ David refers to as his debut solo album, musically aided by … Continue reading
Album review: LITTLE KING – Lente Viviente
Facebook [Release date 26.09.25] Little King was formed in November of 1996 by guitarist/singer/songwriter Ryan Rosoff in El Paso, Texas. Ryan is joined in the current Little King line-up by David Hamilton (bass, cello) and Tony Bojorquez (drums), and this … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt rock, Lente Viviente, Little King, melodic rock, prog rock, review, rock
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Album review : BEBOP DELUXE – The Albums 1976-78 (3 CD set)
Esoteric Music [Release date : 26.09.25] Nowadays, founder, guitarist, writer and driving force behind the band Be Bop Deluxe, Bill Nelson, is not for looking in the rear view mirror, so it’s good that Cherry Red offshoot, Esoteric is doing … Continue reading
Album review: THREE DAYS GRACE – Alienation
RCA Records [Release date 22.08.25] The main recent development for Three Days Grace is the return of original vocalist Adam Gontier who now shares duties with Matt Walst (who replaced him in 2013). Formed in the late 1990s in Ontario, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alienation, alternative rock, nu-metal, review, Three Days Grace
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Album review : THE BANGLES : Watching The Sky (4 CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date : 26.09.25] The title of this Bangles’ boxset, Watching The Sky, is taken from their third (and at the time, assumed to be their last) album, titled Everything, released in 1988. CD1 : All Over The … Continue reading
Album review: THE RASMUS – Weirdo
Better Noise Music [Release date 12.09.25] It’s as if the last 20 years never happened. The Rasmus first came to our attention back in 2003 with their Scandi brand of pop/nu-metal and ‘Weirdo’ sees them on a bit of a … Continue reading
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Tagged album, goth metal, nu-metal, pop metal, review, The Rasmus, Weirdo
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Album review: CORY MARKS – Sorry For Nothing Vol.2
Better Noise Music [Release date 03.10.25] Cory Marks new album is a follow-up to last year’s volume 1. Like its predecessor it was produced by Kevin Churko (Ozzy Osbourne, Shania Twain), Kile Odell, and Andrew Baylis. The album, in Cory’s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cory Marks, country, country rock, melodic, review, rock, Sorry For Nothing Vol.2
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Album review : CARL BALDASSARRE – Deep Grooves
CB Music [Release date : 12.09.25] You have to admire Carl Baldassarre’s honesty for treating this self produced album as an academic exercise rather than a labour of love, although love of music of whatever stripe is clearly his motivation. … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Baldassarre, funk, Jacob Dupre, Kool and the Gang, Nick D’Virgilio, review, Sly Stone, soul, Stevie Wonder
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Single review: ROSS HARDING REVELATOR BLUES
Facebook Man this is my kind of blues, you can keep your note bending, face grimacing, guitar histrionics, give me an acoustic guitar, a whisky soaked emotive voice, a kick drum and references to hellhounds, storms, prophets and god and … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, blues rock, guitarist, Revelator Blues, review, Ross Harding, single
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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
Album review : THE SWITCH – No Way Out
Frontiers [Release date 12.08.25] It’s in some way inspiring to hear a band embracing the past wholeheartedly. Pretty well everywhere you scratch the paint on No Way Out, you’ll find the 1980s underneath. The Switch was formed by identical twin … Continue reading
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Tagged Bobby John, Cruzh, Denis Butabi Borg, James Martin, melodic rock, Nitrate, review, The Switch, Tom Martin, Vega
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EP review: HOLLY LERSKI – Greek Trilogy
Laundry Records [Release date 19.09.25] Holly Lerski is an emotive singer-songwriter whose craft is based round heartfelt lyrics, interwoven into subtle arrangements which bolster lyrical meaning and feel. ‘Greek Trilogy’ plays to her lyrical, musical and conceptual strengths, bringing clarity … Continue reading
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Tagged EP, Greek Triology, Holly Lerski, Joni Mitchell, Monophonics, Neil Young, review, Rickie Lee Jones, singer, songwriter, The Beatles
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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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Single review: TORA DAA – Dear Lord
Instagram [Release date 05.09.25] I am quite often late to the table with bands, and Tora Daa are no exception, but I find that being late, you have no preconceived ideas. I was more than pleasantly surprised with this discovery … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, Dear Lord, pop rock, Prince, review, rock, single, Tora Daa, Tora Dahle Aagard
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Single review: LEONI JANE KENNEDY – Sloe
Bandcamp [Release date 21.08.25] Sloe is Leoni’s fourth single of 2025. Of course it has some great playing from Leoni, and it has clever time signature changes, one of them containing some nifty interplay between guitar and Hammond organ. All … Continue reading
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Tagged guitarist, Leoni Jane Kennedy, progressive, review, rock, single, Sloe, the Anchoress
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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
Single reviews: ROXY AND THE LOCKHEARTS, BIG TALL SHADOWS
Now there’s a bit of a backstory here… whilst both bands will be judged as single entities, these guys have in fact worked together before as the mighty King Voodoo whilst they disbanded and have gone their separate ways musically. … Continue reading
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Tagged Biffy Clyro, Big Tall Shadows, debut, Def Leppard, King Voodoo, melodic rock, review, rock, Roxy and the Lockhearts, singles
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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 : JOE MEEK – A Curious Mind (3 CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date: 29.08.25] Anyone in anyway familiar with the story of legendary British Music producer, Joe Meek, will know that he cut his electronics’ teeth in the 1950s, operating and maintaining the complexities of the RAF’s radar equipment. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Curious Mind, Edgar Varese, Heinz, Joe Meek, John Leyton, Lord Sutch, Mike Berry, review, Space, Telstar, Tornadoes
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