Rod Stewart Joins With Jools Holland To Release An Album Of Swing Standards – Swing Fever
Rod Stewart has enjoyed a long career inside the annals of Rock and Roll. First as singer for Long John Baldry, then The Jeff Beck Group, and then as the…
Family To Reissue Final Album – It’s Only A Movie
Family, the UK band that formed in 1966 with mainstay Roger Chapman, and who had Ric Grech, and John Wetton within their ranks at times, released an enduring set of…
Review: Rock ‘N Roll Soul – Live 1989 – Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad)
Assuredly, the band known in the late ’60s as Grand Funk Railroad (Grand Funk after manager shenanigans screwed with the band until lawyers ironed out the wrinkled mess) produced a…
Steve Hackett (Genesis) To Release New Album – The Circus And The Nightwhale
Steve Hackett, the guitar virtuoso of Genesis before his departure in 1977 to pursue a solo career, has been in perpetual busyness. With 27 solo releases to his name, Steve…
Paul McCartney And Wings Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of Band On The Run With Underdubbed Mixes
The BIG news of the day represents a bit of a cash grab for McCartney fans but if you’re a hardcore fan, it definitely belongs in the library for you.…
The Jesus And Mary Chain To Release New Album – Glasgow Eyes
The Jesus and Mary Chain band released their first album, Psychocandy, to immediate fame in the UK markets. Even the US got in on the band although at a distance…
Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes/Thunderbitch) Returns With New Solo Album – What Now
When Alabama Shakes released their phenomenal Platinum hit, Boys & Girls back in 2012, they created a sound quake that resonated with Blues and Soul fans of Rock. The hit,…
MGMT To Release New Album – Loss Of Life
MGMT formed back in the early ’00s and left a string of popular neo-psych albums before taking a break and going dark for a few years. Their catalogue consists of…
Thin Lizzy Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of Vagabonds Of The Western World With Box Set
One of the well remembered bands from the ’70s were Thin Lizzy. The band enjoyed plenty of success on the jet trails of Jailbreak (1976) with strong forward movement. However,…
CD REVIEW: WRECKLESS ERIC, “Leisureland”
I have to admit, Eric Goulden’s 1980 American 2-LP set, Big Smash (on the much-heralded Stiff/Epic imprint) was a tremendous influence on me and my then-burgeoning attempts at songwriting. “A…
UFO To Reissue Classic Set – Lights Out
UFO released Lights Out back in 1977. It follows three previously released chart sets that include Phenomenon (1974), Force It (1975), and No Heavy Petting (1976). (Two earlier titles are…
Dhani Harrison To Release Next Album – Innerstanding
Dhani Harrison is prominently recognized as the son of the late George Harrison. But he is also well remembered for his own music compositions that include soundtrack work on films,…