Review: Get All You Deserve – Steven Wilson – BD
This is an over two-hour concert film of Steven Wilson’s Grace for Drowning tour recorded in Mexico City earlier this year. This set includes the BluRay disc, the duplicate on…
Review: Fanatic – Heart
The first listen to Heart’s latest album, Fanatic, released some 35 years later after Dreamboat Annie (1976), should easily dispel the notion that any legacy band from the ’70s cannot…
Review: Senna – Mahogany Frog
Born out of the Prairies of Western Canada comes – a Psychedelic, post-modern, Canterbury-styled, rockin’ out band called Mahogany Frog? – you betcha’!! This band caught me by surprise and…
Review: Behind The Mask – Red Sand
Red Sand is one of (unfortunately) many “best kept secrets” in the Canadian Music scene. When it comes to Progressive Rock, most of the newer bands are from the province…
Review: Pete Remembers Woody/A More Perfect Union – Pete Seeger/Pete Seeger and Lorre Wyatt
A thousand years ago, Pete Seeger gave a concert at my upstate NY college. Through some creative excuse-making, I was fortunate enough to cut class early enough to get a…
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…