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…
Review: Ram – Paul and Linda McCartney
Following up the multi-platinum release of McCartney (1970), Paul McCartney, who included Linda as a creator, issued RAM with several wonderful tracks that included the finger-pointing tune, “Too Many People”,…
Review: Strange Euphoria – Heart
Back in the ’70s, when two sisters formed a band called Heart and released their defining “Magic Man” single on the independent Mushroom Records label, they had no idea that…
Review: Analog Man – Joe Walsh
I was immensely surprised to hear that Joe Walsh, he of James Gang, Barnstorm, and Eagles fame, would be releasing a new solo effort some 20 years after his last,…
Review: Thick As A Brick 2 (TAAB2) – Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson
Opening with the same fade-up technique that first greeted listeners forty years ago, Thick As A Brick 2 quickly establishes itself as something new. After the oddly familiar opening, it…
Review: New York Connection – Sweet
The newest album from The Sweet, a band that still survives under the watchful care of original member Andy Scott, still has that instantly recognizable Sweet sound fashioned decades earlier…
Review: Live At Avenue B – Iggy Pop – DVD
Rock ‘n’ Roll is pretty damn primal at its core. The closer to the heart of it you get, the hotter the core boils. I really don’t think that it…
Review: Farther On Up The Road: The Chrysalis Years (1977-1983) – Robin Trower
Following the previously released 3CD album collection A Tale Untold: The Chrysalis Years (1973-1976), which contain some of the best known Robin Trower classics albums for fans, Chrysalis issues a…