Tonight is a celebration of all things 80’s and all things electronic at a packed out Astor Theatre that hosts Human League’s last two sold out nights of their almost completely sold out 2024 Dare […]
BACK TO THE TOP OF THE SLIDE… Hardcore Superstar never fails to entertain, and with an opening ‘Cutting the Slack’ that sounds either like The Doors or The Stranglers in carnival mode (depending on your […]
The second concert I ever went to was Tina Turner. At that point in her career February 24th 1984 at The Haven Theatre in Boston U.K. she was on the verge of a huge […]
The press release tells just part of the story – Living Colour’s radio hit, ‘Cult of Personality’ was the record that made Shawn want to learn guitar. That in turn led to a plethora […]
The press release reads: “ON TIME is the first solo album composed and written by Claude Gaudefroy aka GODO, with the exceptional participation of several prestigious international musicians, including Craig Blundell, (Steven Wilson) Adam […]
Sometimes you get to look back over your shoulder to years gone by when you review albums. Often that’s when a band hones in on a particular style but occasionally it comes when bands […]
Studying Latin at school I always used ‘Tempus Fugit’ to translate the common saying “Time flies.” Fugit (to flee or escape or fly) always seemed a better verb than Volo (or Volat in the third […]
Spanish Death Metal – who’d have thought it? Not only that this is Bloodhunter’s third release, and comes after a gap of five years with a few changes in personnel since 2017’s ‘The End […]
Three albums in Carbon Black has really hit their stride and with mixing by the inimitable Kevin Shirley and a guest spot by Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens there ‘s more than a few bells and whistles […]
My editor has been telling me for years that Myke Gray who played guitar and wrote for Skin, Jagged Edge and Red, White & Blues has wrote some of the best songs of the period. […]
OK so here we have it – Inglorious’ twist on the cover album – a band with a great male vocalist taking on songs made famous by women. OK fair enough concept but how […]
Apologies for the late review, mid pandemic I changed States and managed to get locked down in Melbourne leaving a pile of review material somewhere when I returned to NSW I completely forgot about […]
Based in Vancouver, BC Alice Hardy formed in 2016. With a few riffs and a smelter of influences, forging a sound and style of hard rock that is new, yet familiar. Made up of […]
I generally find instrumental albums pretty boring and music without words for me has always been something that I leave for the movies. Melbourne’s Joe Matera though might just have something here – an […]
I’m not sure what genre you would label this EP with, would you call it Dark Metal? It’s hard to pigeonhole, though it does certainly have Gothic and Industrial undertones and Metalcore-like vocals- Death […]
I don’t know about you but I get a little worried when you read a bio that name-checks some of the biggest bands in rock, refers to the ‘legenday‘ (their spelling not mine) Paul Stanley […]
It’s taken almost two decades for Sydney’s Enter 6 to release this second studio album and it’s one that has me firmly sat on the fence here. The production is awful for a start, the […]
Modern Rock with a late 90’s flavour to it is what you get in these 11 tracks from Cinder that make up ‘The Machine.’ So logically if you like the sort of Rock that is […]
This is interesting I loved Bad Flowers a band that stormed onto the scene in early 2018 with ‘Staring Gun’ of which I said “(this is a) band that has a real Blues-Rock edge […]
Australia’s Demonhead have a mighty sound that after its done battering you about the head leaves you feeling you’ve been assaulted by Pantera whilst taking onboard a touch of Punk, Stoner and Doom for […]
OK here we go again, ‘Monsoon’ that opens this new album by Flight Brigade is 22 seconds of keys that leaves you wondering whether Pop, Rock or House music is about to descend on you. […]
These days with technology the way it is recording your debut album with a help of guest musicians isn’t the logistical balancing act it used to be. As a result anyone with the connections […]
If you want to hear an album by a young band that is brimming with promise and only seem inches away from hitting the nail on the head this is it. Like many new bands […]
Some albums aren’t the sort of work you can easily categorize and the more personal they are the more the reviewer is doomed to failure by trying to put them in a box. Mike Thompson’s […]
The Blues is wonderful, there you are working your way through the greats and everywhere you turn there’s ‘new’ artists like Big Daddy Wilson to discover who just blow your mind! The Blues is alive […]
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