Jan Akkerman (Focus) To Release New Album, Close Beauty
From many great Prog bands from the early years, a great guitarist emerged. YES has Steve Howe; King Crimson has Robert Fripp; Genesis had Steve Hackett; and Focus had Jan…
Stephen Bishop Returns With New Album, We’ll Talk About It Later In The Car
Back in 1977, a singer-songwriter by the name of Stephen Bishop began a career with the help of legends. For his debut album, Bishop had the help of Eric Clapton…
Bent Knee To Release New Album, You Know What They Mean
At this stage of the Rock and Roll phenomenon, every style has been explored, evey integration has been utilized, and nothing is left to the imagination. Nevertheless, few bands are…
Angel To Release New Album, Risen
1975 brought the eponymous album release by Angel. Released on Casablanca, the band delivered a hard rock style with an angelic image. Eventually, their logo was designed to reflect a…
Penguin Cafe To Release New Album, Handfuls of Night
Penguin Cafe Orchestra left behind a beautiful library of five avant-garde classic albums (back when avant-garde was used as a term to classify hard to classify art-styled music). From their…
Singled Out: “In The Air Tonight” by The Choir (Phil Collins Cover)
Is Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight” a great song without that drum fill? With their latest single, The Choir have taken on the task of answering that question in…
Lightning Dust Returns With New Album, Spectre
When the Canadian duo, Lightning Dust, released their last album (Fantasy – 2013), the world was a different place. Then, I was a long-time resident of Southern California. Now, I…
Iggy Pop To Release New Album, Free
For me, Iggy Pop helps to define the magic and power, the illusion and fable, and the merge of Rock and Roll. Any of his performances are more powerful than…
#MetalMonday: “Evin” by Confess
Good luck on being more extreme than that, every other metal band in the world.
Anneke van Giersbergen Recording New Acoustic Solo Album
Now, for the first time, van Giersbergen is preparing a solo acoustic album. Recorded with engineer Gijs Coolen (with whom van Giersbergen collaborated on the aforementioned Drive), the upcoming album…
Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) Returns With Debut Solo Album, Jaime
Back in 2012, a band by the name of Alabama Shakes went on to surprise a lot of fans with their soulful and bluesy rock and roll. With the release…
New Devendra Banhart Album, Ma
One of the essential bedrock elements of Rock is its infatuation of Folk music. From all corners of the world, Folk helps deliver important parts of a widely acceptable format.…