I don’t think I’ve been this impressed by a debut album since The Darkness ‘Permission To Land’, The Struts ‘Everybody Wants’ or even The Strokes ‘Is This It’. Three very different albums of course, […]
If you want an eclectic listen then add Chip & The Charge Ups to your listening list, with a release date smack bang in the middle of the pandemic their latest full length offering ‘Lightning […]
Jeremy Harry Harris, the voice of Perth Rock band ‘Stone Circle’ is back after a lengthy absence with an album that you can feel the love coming off of it. It’s 14 tracks of music […]
Norfolk’s Bad Touch’s highly anticipated fourth studio album “Kiss The Sky” was recorded, produced and mixed by Nick Brine at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wale and mastered by Pete Maher. If you’re […]
May 8th 2020 saw the release of one of my favourite albums of the year – Orange County’s Robert Jon & The Wreck’s ‘Last Light On The Highway’ – an album which is all […]
‘Red’ has to be Devilskin’s finest album to date and would surely have seen the band take another huge leap up that ladder with a European Tour ready to go just as coronairus put […]
Opening with the classic harmonica and steam train intro of ‘Train, Train’ originally recorded by Blackfoot you can’t go far wrong. Its a classic song already writ large in every Southern Rock fan’s memory […]
A new album by my favourite East Coast rockers The Erotics is always welcome, doubly so in times like these when music is one of our great comforts despite not being able to catch […]
13 Stars’ ‘Finest Ramshackle Jam’ is one of those albums that doesn’t come around too often, an album that you can play all the way through and just can’t put down. It’s also an album […]
If like me you love a dose of Southern Rock and rate Black Stone Cherry as one of the best bands around then cast your eyes towards Wales! Yes Wales, home of The Stereophonics […]
Detroit’s Artificial Angel have produced a nice Modern Hard Rock album here. Actually make that ‘very good’ and it’s one that sweetens the more you listen to it. They’ve also done something not too […]
It’s been a long time since we heard of Sven Gali, the Canadian rock band whose debut went gold in Canada before they changed their sound to chase the Grunge revolution and lost their […]
Devilskin, New Zealand’s finest Metal band are ten years old this year and to celebrate they have just released their best album yet. We may be locked down but it’s impossible to not feel the […]
Hollowed Sky released their eponymous debut back in 2018 and now they’re back with five more songs for devotees of their Alt-Rock sound but this time there’s more than the Alt-Rock musings of ‘Live’ and […]
Heavy Pettin’ was one of the very first Rock bands I saw live when they and Canada’s Helix supported Kiss at Stafford Bingley Hall many moons ago. I remember being so impressed I splurged […]
If you like your symphonic rock and metal and let’s face it who doesn’t on occasion even if you tend to inhabit other genres there’s something rather impressive about that style of music when it […]
Adelaide’s Sonic Divide have a Melodic Modern Rock sound that at first listen isn’t a million miles away from Nickelback… there I’ve said it… That of course though is only part of the equation […]
When this landed in the mail it gave me an odd felling of deja vu. I knew I knew the name but I must admit over the years my Blues credentials haven’t been kept as […]
Kings of Dust is an intriguing mix of musicians from two of Jake. E. Lee bands (Badlands and Red Dragon Cartel) as well as 2000’s glam rock heroes Crash Street Kids and late 80s […]
Six albums in Vega has just recorded the album of their career, a huge roller-coaster of a record that sees them at the very top of their game and ready to convert the masses. Then […]
As you probably know if you read a lot of my reviews I love finding great new music whether it’s a local band or a great new talent from the US or the UK, […]
I’ve had this album for a while now and really enjoy it, I remember it landing late last year and being snapped up by an eager young contributor but when I scanned the site a […]
When you read a press release that name-checks some of your very favourite bands (in this case Blackberry Smoke, The Quireboys, The Black Crowes ) you always feel a certain trepidation along with that […]
Here’s a new name for me but a great band that conjure up images of The Sunset Strip in its heyday. There’s a wonderful swing and groove to ‘Devil’s Canyon/Walking Contradiction’ that has you […]
Jack has never sounded better than on the bonus track here – the cover of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Babe I’m Gonna Leave You’ which I must admit I sneakily skipped to before I settled down […]
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