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Endfield – Right to the Top
Light mainstream Rock done well and with no little sheen is perhaps the best overview of the music of the reformed Endfield whose roots go all the way back to 1998. Sonically it might […]
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INTERVIEW: Ben Wells – Black Stone Cherry
KENTUCKY is BLACK STONE CHERRY’s Best album so far, the band went all the way back to their roots to put together a searing slab of Southern-tinged rock. It may just be the album […]
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INTERVIEW: Tony Clarkin – Magnum
For years Tony Clarkin has guided Magnum to become one of the great British Rock bands. We caught up with him to talk about the new album ‘Sacred Blood, ‘Divine’ Lies’ – an album […]
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The Fumes – Bloodless
Three albums in and two years in the making ‘Bloodless’ could well be the best we’ve heard from Australia’s riff heavy blues infused ‘The Fumes’ yet. If you like it hot and sweaty with big […]
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Birth of Joy – Get Well
If you are already familiar with the Dutch psych rockers then you should know that they are right up there in terms of quality and pure sonic cohesiveness with the likes of latter-day genre slayers […]
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Jani Lane – Catch a Falling Star
I must admit I was never a huge fan of Warrant as a band back in the day (Ironically I revisited the back catalogue after Lane’s death and wished I had been) but like everyone […]
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Now or Never – II
Now Or Never was founded in 2012 by guitarist Ricky Marx (ex-Pretty Maids) and drummer Ranzo, who were joined soon after by vocalist Jo Amore (ex-Nightmare), and bass player Kenn Jackson (also a veteran ex-Pretty […]
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Starchase – The New Day
There is a vaguely eastern sounding opening to the opening track of Starchase’s ‘Brand New Day’ that is completely redundant when what the album offers is so simple and so assured – a stack of […]
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Love and a 38 – Nomads
First and foremost this is a Rock and Roll album, full of fire in the belly and attitude it’s got all the ingredients that should make a good listen. ‘Love and a 38’ sound good […]
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Supersonic Blues Machine – West of Flushing South of Frisco
My there’s some great Blues out this year, I’m still playing Joe Bonamassa’s new album on heavy rotation and reaching out for something else a bit bluesy and this lands on the turntable. Now you […]
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Rick Springfield – Rocket Science
Rick Springfield’s career started way before his first solo album in 1972, though it was 1981 before he really made his mark on the charts with his first RCA release ‘Working Class Dog’, recorded at […]
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Monster Truck – Sittin’ Heavy
I once to see a Nickelback concert to catch the supporting band Monster Truck. Boy they were good and a huge thumbs up to Nickelback for getting them on the bill. After racking up the […]
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Inglorious – Inglorious
There’s a lot of hype around this band and the big question is to what extent is it deserved? The answer is easy – this album is huge. From the opening organ and swagger of […]
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Ricky Warwick – ‘When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang the Blues)’ and ‘Hearts on Trees’
Two things immediately strike you about Ricky Warwick’s new pair of solo albums – the title of the first track ‘The Road to Damascus Street’ – a street in the capitol of his country of […]
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Holy Grail – Times of Pride and Peril
Out of the band White Wizard came Hold Grail – two bands that certainly had something interesting and acute to say in the world of West Coast Metal. Holy Grail seems to have been the […]
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Magnum – Sacred Blood, Divine Lies
I always remember my first Magnum show at a tiny venue in Sheffield – their warm up for a huge UK tour. I was stood there beer in hand as Bob Catley walked up to […]
Articles
Twisted Sister – We are Twisted Fucking Sister (Documentary)
The new Twisted Sister documentary is essentially nothing new cinematically, a fairly stock series of talking heads and live shots, with no real vintage footage off stage of the band in their early days. It […]
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Ginger Wildheart – Year of the Fanclub
So here we are just a year after the G.A.S.S. project commenced -which saw a crowd-funded three songs a month released to subscribers – and all of which are all collected here for our delectation. […]
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Last in Line – Heavy Crown
What an apt title for an album by a band formed by three of the original members of Ronnie James Dio’s DIO, and taking their name from that band’s second studio release (they also of […]
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Greenleaf – Rise Above the Meadow
There’s a certain yearning feeling, a sense of years gone by that seems to hover around Greenleaf, a sense of Rock when it was exciting, open and possibilities were endless. There’s Sabbath in here, there’s Cream certainly, […]
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Shakra – High Noon
Great band Shakra, gutsy melodic Hard Rock with a slight Metallic edge, plenty of balls, great songs and huge hooks that soar. Over the years they’ve put out some great stuff and whilst their last […]
Interviews
INTERVIEW: Terri Nunn – Berlin
For many Berlin will always be that band who produced that one killer song then disappeared from view, fans of the band will course know there’s a whole lot more to them than ‘Take […]
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Rage of Angels – The Devil’s New Tricks
Sizzling, lively, uplifting Melodic Rock that simply soars into the air before your very ears… If you love the keys of players like Greg Giuffria then I hear an echo of his style in Ged […]
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The Cult – Hidden City
As a long-time fan of The Cult; who got on Board way back when they were still the Death Cult, I often get dismayed when most people’s vision of the band is solely centred on […]
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INTERVIEW: Josh Todd – Buckcherry
Few bands have, over the last twenty years, so consistently kept the fires of real Rock and Roll burning as brightly as Buckcherry. Part Hard Rock, part Punk, and brimming with attitude; the band […]