This Mortal Coil Trilogy Reissued On CD and LP Sets
For three brilliant albums, Ivo Watts-Russell (founder of the equally brilliant 4AD label) and his The Mortal Coil collective created classics that still playback well today some thirty years later!…
Mike +The Mechanics To Reissue Limited Edition 30th Anniversary 2LP/2CD of Living Years
Whenever the later, hits-laden era of Genesis officially went to sleep, the Mike Rutherford-led Mike + The Mechanics would awake and record, tour, and otherwise make anxious Genesis fans quite…
New 6CD Mott The Hoople Shoebox Set, Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-1971
As the much-loved sixties began to dissipate, the freshness it cultivated with freedom of expression, in music, clothes, politics, and religion had seeped ever so cool into the early ’70s…
Preview: Friday Night Videos Begins Tonight
Starting this evening, MusicTAP is going to get you in the holiday weekend mood, remembering back to the days when “they still played music videos.” The premise is simple. We’ll…
The Cranberries Get 4CD 25th Anniversary Box for Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?
In 1993, what would soon become a worldwide classic hit album from a soon to be be recognized name, a group of Irish musicians going by The Cranberries recorded and…
The Tangent Announce New Album & Pre-Orders
The Tangent Announce Proxy, Released on Inside Out Music on November 16, 2018 Following up on 2017’s political scorcher The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery, progressive rockers The Tangent are…
Alan Parsons To Release New Music Through Frontiers Record Label
According to online reports, Alan Parsons has inked a new deal with Italian record label Frontiers (Asia, Yes, 3, Vanden Plas) with a new album potentially bowing in early 2019.…
Atreyu Returns With New Album, In Our Wake
Atreyu has long been a fixture in the metalcore genre. With roots in Orange County, CA, Atreyu has worked the circuits hard to gain the respect among fans that they…
Review: Robin Bacior – “Light It Moved Me”
Ah, the sophomore outing. What more vexing way of testing an artist’s mettle than seeing if they can replicate the magic of their debut, while not leaning on the former…
E.P. Review: Karen Haglof, “Palomino Steady Rocking”
Palomino Steady Rocking is the third release from New York-based guitarist/oncologist (yes, you read correctly) Karen Haglof, who has played with such luminaries as Rhys Chatham and Band Of Susans.…
New Nazareth Music With Tattooed On My Brain
Nazareth has been around for quite some time. With over twenty albums in their extended catalog, produced for well near fifty years, this Scottish heavy metal band helped rule the…
Review: Papa M – “A Broke Moon Rises”
Talk about a phoenix rising from the ashes of it all, am I right? Consummate post-rock guitarist David Pajo returns to excellent form on A Broke Moon Rises, a new…