A Wave Of Revisited Vinyl Reissues
Rhino Records, the classic arm of Warner Brothers Music have plans to release a small flurry of new vinyl LPs for some old classics. This is targeted for the collector…
Profile: Xandra Metcalfe of UBOA (2019)
You don’t listen to UBOA, the solo act of Xandra Metcalfe, a trans gal from Melbourne. It just overwhelms you. Metcalfe’s latest offering, though, differs in some ways from past…
#MetalMonday: “Demons on the Wall” by Andromeda Anarchia
And with “Demons on the Wall,” what heavy does is to twist common metal language about fallen angels and hellfire into a progressive panorama of the interior of a terrified…
Tangerine Dream 16CD, 2BD Box, In Search Of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979
Back in November of 2018, Tangerine Dream fans were teased with a short glimpse of an impending arrival of selected Virgin Years titles inside a large Boxed set. One of…
Album Review: Through Your Eyes by Marcela Bovio
Bovio has long since established her status as a vocalist in progressive metal with Stream of Passion, Ayreon, and MaYaN. On Through Your Eyes, she welds the bombast of a…
Silversun Pickups Return With New Album, Widow’s Weeds
Just after the turn of the new century, a band going by the name of Silversun Pickups delighted the large indie fanbase with a classic album, Carnavas, That album was…
Savoy Brown Readies New Album, City Night
The last time we had a Savoy Brown album was with the excellent Witchy Feelin’, released in August of 2017. That album was a classic example of the quality that…
Interpol To Release New 5-Track EP, A Fine Mess
When Interpol popped into the stream of Rock and Roll back in 2002 with the debut of their now classic set, Turn On The Bright Lights, they were well received…
Sting To Release Album Of Re-Recorded/Remixed Sting/Police Classics, My Songs
Re-recorded songs by original artists, especially those songs that are VERY familiar to fans, have a middling track record. Sometimes they actually improve on the original in ways that allow…
Review: Various Artists – “Bridges”
What makes Pittsburgh quintessentially Pittsburgh? It’s a good question, one with an urgency the national media’s been mulling for more than a decade (and, in past iterations, for generations) now,…
Review: Rodan – “The Hat Factory ’93”
If Rodan’s Rusty is the butterfly on its ripe-peach-hued cover, the newly released ’93 recordings are the budding chrysalis. And they are something to behold. So, first, a little back-story…
Santana To Release New Album, Africa Speaks
I can still remember the first time I heard Santana. His music played a significant role in the way I would begin to listen to new emerging music. With a…