Review: English Electric Part One – Big Big Train
Big Big Train is every Prog fans’ dream: Genesis and Marillion influences wrapped up in modern packaging with wonderful lyrics and a full battery of instruments. I could stop the…
Review: Lawless OMPS – Nick Cave/Warren Ellis
Lawless, the new movie from director John Hillcoat and Bad Seeds frontman/screenwriter/co-composer/all-around Renaissance man Nick Cave, concerns a family of bootlegging brothers in the backwoods of Virginia during the Prohibition.…
Review: Delayed Reaction – Bolus
Every once in awhile you take a chance on a totally unknown band (to me at least) and you get lucky. This recording by a young band from Ontario just…
Review: Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) 2012 Remaster Box
I’ll start this review by saying what won’t be in it: a review of ELP’s first album. There is too much literature out there already on one of the greatest…
Review: The Singer – Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel, one half of one of the most important folk/rock duos in Rock history in Simon and Garfunkel, has enjoyed quite a lifetime of creating special music. His is…
Review: Four – Bloc Party
The music of Bloc Party has changed from album to album as if the band were unhappy with their phenomenal first album, Silent Alarm (2005). Many of us were concerned…
Review: Anastasis – Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance has returned from a 16-year absence with a new album! I tend to be wary of bands or artists that come back from the past to make…
Review: Slow Dream – Loren Nerell
Loren Nerell’s love affair with ambient music and its endless diversities have its roots firmly fed by the music of Tangerine Dream, who themselves, have had immeasurable influence on many…
Review: The Complete Scepter Singles – B. J. Thomas
The music of B.J Thomas has been quite resilient over the decades since they were first recorded. The fact that Real Gone Music is releasing a collected set of Thomas…
Review: In Black – July A.D.
From the well-traveled roads of NYC, where thousands of previous bands have walked, a passionate crew by the name of July A.D. hones their own Rock and Roll craft. One…
Review: DiscSox CD / Storage Solutions
If you’re at all like me (and I hope for your sake that you aren’t) you’re running short on everything these days. Time, money, sanity…space, I am trying to organize…
Review: Ashes and Roses – Mary Chapin Carpenter
With the release of Ashes and Roses, Mary Chapin Carpenter offers her eleventh studio album that began with her Columbia Records gem, 1987’s Hometown Girl. Over the decades, Carpenter has…