Album Review: Alan Parsons, “The Secret”
The album succeeds, even if it reminds too hard that this is the Parsons you remember.
Rammstein Returns With “Matchstick”
It’s seriously been almost ten years since the German industrial shock band, Rammstein has released an album…2009 to be exact. With much hope gone that they’d return, the band let…
The Black Keys End Long Drought With ‘Let’s rock’
The collaborative team of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney has given the new Millennium a solid and genuine taste of Rock as it’s been enjoyed for decades. Formed a the…
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,…
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…
EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: KAREN HAGLOF, “Tobiano”
MusicTAP is very please to premiere the title track from Tobiano, the 3rd full length release by avant-guitarist-turned-oncologist- returned guitarist/songwriter, Karen Haglof. The bulk of the ten songs included were…
The Darkness Cometh, And Easter Is Cancelled
What to do following a Top 10 UK album the likes of Pinewood Smile? You save the world, of course. The Darkness have taken upon themselves the challenge of heroism…
Black Oak Arkansas To Release New Album, Underdog Heroes
Black Oak Arkansas enjoyed their best years of rocking creativity back in the early ’70s with a count of nine classic studio albums, and several raucous live albums. Their main…