Review: MELK – “Listen”
There’s not very much that’s astounding about “Listen,” the one-song debut from Reno soul quartet MELK, released Tuesday on streaming services. That is, there’s not very much that’s astounding about…
Jethro Tull Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Stormwatch With 6-Disc Force 10 Edition
Jethro Tull is representative of classic ProgRock as much as Yes or even ELP. In their own delivery, Jethro Tull performed well throughout a richly changing musical landscape, never compromising…
Iggy Pop To Release New Album, Free
For me, Iggy Pop helps to define the magic and power, the illusion and fable, and the merge of Rock and Roll. Any of his performances are more powerful than…
Black Sabbath – The Vinyl Collection 1970-1978 9LP Box To Be Re-Released
Black Sabbath certainly – and heavily – contributed to the metal style that was taken to innumerable styles and levels after them. Using society, politics (and their numerous wars), and…
ALBUM REVIEW: THE GOLD NEEDLES, “Through A Window”
Another new signing from Marty Scott’s legendary Jem Records, The Gold Needles, who hail from Hull, U.K., are arbiters of 60’s-influenced psychedelic/power-pop prove with an album that one can automatically…
The MusicTAP Interview: Amy Petty
After two profound records, Mystery Keeps You (2008) and House of Doors (2010), musician Amy Petty seemed to fall off the face of the earth. Aside from a very well-crafted…
#MetalMonday: “Evin” by Confess
Good luck on being more extreme than that, every other metal band in the world.
Review: Aaron Myers-Brooks – “Energetic Bursts”
Guitarist-composer Aaron Myers-Brooks constructs mathy, even obtuse, metal for listeners who appreciate the genre’s technical virtuosity but take issue with its faux-evil strutting and testosterone-jacked theatricality. There you have it.…
Anneke van Giersbergen Recording New Acoustic Solo Album
Now, for the first time, van Giersbergen is preparing a solo acoustic album. Recorded with engineer Gijs Coolen (with whom van Giersbergen collaborated on the aforementioned Drive), the upcoming album…
9CD Box Planned For Caravan – The Decca/Deram Years (An Anthology) 1970-1975
Caravan, by releasing their self-titled first album back in the early days of Rock, helped to progress Rock n Roll into a phase of changes. Those changes involved introducing popular…
Throbbing Gristle’s Greatest Hits (1981), and D.o.A.: The Third And Final Report (1978), Reissued For 2CD and LP
Throbbing Gristle, formed in the ’70s as an alternative to the stadium Rock of the time, thrived on the developing nature of music as it led into the late ’70s,…
Spoon To Issue Collection With Everything Hits At Once: The Best Of Spoon
With over twenty years of recorded music, the Austin, TX band, Spoon, has released nine studio sets. Each album has always easily attracted the US indie fans. However, with their…