Uriah Heep | Outsider – CD Review
A swirling organ and straight ahead double snapping snare open the pulsing "Speed Of Sound" from Uriah Heep's 2014 release Outsider. It's an organ-up-front, bass-thumping tune that showcases the...
Blackmore’s Night | All Our Yesterdays – CD Review
Blackmore’s Night have returned in 2015 with the 12-song All Our Yesterdays album. Ritchie Blackmore and his wife Candice Night once again create a thick tapestry of Renaissance flavored...
Robby Krieger | Singularity – CD Review
When it comes to the Doors, you pretty much get your fill of Jim Morrison.
For the surviving other members of the Doors, however, rising up in the shadow
of their...
Michael Schenker’s Temple of Rock | Spirit On A Mission – CD Review
Michael Schenker has found his niche. He's spent many years chasing down collaborations with numerous players, hedging germs of ideas but rarely pushing it to their potential. His most...
Dirty Honey | Can’t Find The Brakes – New Studio Release Review
For Can’t Find The Brakes, their sophomore full length release, Los Angeles quartet Dirty Honey followed a familiar format. As with their 2021 debut LP, they were produced by...
John Mayall | Tough – CD Review
On his 57th (yes, that 57!) studio album Tough, "The
Godfather of British Blues" at 76, John Mayall lays out words of wisdom
on his latest 11-track, self-produced tome. The CD...
Firefall | Friends And Family – New Studio Release Review
Firefall manages to cover some of their favorites from the 1970s on Friends And Family. In picking these 13 songs, the group celebrates “the family” of band members — Rick Roberts, Mark...
Mick Abrahams | Revived – CD Review
Mick Abrahams is most certainly Revived!, and we are the better for it. Having suffered a heart attack in 2009, Jethro Tull's original guitarist and founder of Blodwyn Pig...
Todd Rundgren | Arena – CD Review
With the New Cars debacle fading in his rear view mirror, Todd Rundgren returns
with Arena, his first studio album in four years. Recorded
in Princeville, Hawaii (the singer's homebase where...
Earl & The Agitators | Shaken & Stirred – CD Review
Earl & The Agitators is Roger Earl, drummer and original member of the fabulous original Foghat; vocalist, lead guitarist, 10 year veteran with Buddy Guy Scott Holt; Foghat’s current...
