CD Review: Devin Townsend Project, “Ocean Machine: Live at the Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv”
In 1996, the band Oingo Boingo released a live album aptly titled Farewell. It was a chronicle of their last show, fittingly performed on Halloween 1995. It was an opportunity…
Reissue Review: Mark Deutrom – “Brief Sensuality & Western Violence”
In the age of Trump, we are consumed with allegations of Fake News, the painting of journalists as enemies of the American people, and online jingoism taking the place of…
EP Review: T-Tops – “Disease”
Talk about a punch to the gut. Something is roiling in Pittsburgh and the punk trio T-Tops is most definitely tapped into it. The group’s new EP — Disease, out…
Dave Grohl Teases New Solo Song “Play”
A mysterious email recently landed in the in-boxes of Foo Fighters fans. The header mentioned “‘Play’ – A New Song By Dave Grohl” and notes that the track is coming…
Debut 1972 Greenslade Album Gets 2CD Remastered Reissue
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…
Boy George & Culture Club To Release New Album, Life
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…
New Steve Hackett Box, Broken Skies – Outspread Wings (1984-2006)
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…
New Remastered Reissues Of First Four X Albums Planned
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,…
Graham Parker To Release New Studio Work, Cloud Symbols
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…
Nazareth Loud & Proud Box, 3CD, 2LP Sets
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…
The Guess Who With New Album
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…
Early Pre-Fame Bob Seger Collection, The Complete Cameo Recordings 1966-1967 (Mono)
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…