The year of Maria Mauldaur‘s steamy Top 10 hit, “Midnight At The Oasis” was 1973. With that album branching near the absolute Top of the Billboard, it appeared that Maria…
For those of you who have long been Thompson fans (Richard and Linda), the good news is that both have new albums being released soon. With the rich history that…
If you could call Greenslade unusual in their approach to music it would not be in the fact that the band’s instrumental approach is dominated by keyboards. We’ve seen that…
From the first seconds of “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?”, the single from Culture Club‘s first Virgin album, Kissing To Be Clever (1982), it was immediately recognizable that…
Steve Hackett, once a vital part of the nucleus of Genesis back in the ’70s, has collected a dedicated fan-base with his vast array of solo a;bums and collaborations since…
Since 1977, the LA Punk-era band, X, has delivered a strong set of albums that include their Slash Records-released 1980 debut, Los Angeles, and their subsequent six issues. To date,…
Since the late ’70s, Graham Parker (initially with his band, The Rumour (through 1980, then again with Three Chords Good (2012), and Mystery Glue (2015), his last album), had steadily…
With a fondness for music that traveled in a thousand directions, I rarely delved too deeply into styles of enjoyable sounds. As such, I was lucky to have sampled a…
Like Foghat, the only remaining original member of the classic Guess Who sits behind the drum kit. And while that’s a far cry from the good old classic days of…
Before there was Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, there was a pre-fame band called The Last Heard. As Bob Seger ramped up to the release of his break-through…
If you were a fan of the frenetic cover of “Roll Over Beethoven” and the band that recorded it, then you likely rode the crest of a long-running string of…
After the rise of KISS on the Casablanca label, it was the sworn intent of label head, Neil Bogart, to bring the label into contention with the top ones of…