Various Artists | A Prog Rock Christmas – CD Review
A Prog Rock Christmas features members of Yes, Renaissance, Deep Purple,Utopia, Focus, Curved Air, Hawkwind, and a special guest performance by actor Malcolm McDowell. This collection runs around some holiday classics in...
Hackett & Rothery | The Roaring Waves – New Studio Release Review
A double helping of the two Steves — Steve Hackett and Marillion’s Steve Rothery — lead The Roaring Waves to the heights one expects of players of this magnitude....
The Scorpions | Humanity Hour 1 – CD Review
Unlike the nocturnal arthropod from which they take their name, the Scorpions
are no strangers to the wind of change, so to speak. Throughout their
30-plus-year career, they’ve adapted to the...
Cactus | Black Dawn – CD Review
Cactus was born from the detritus of Vanilla Fudge in 1970 when drummer Carmine Appice and bassist Tim Bogert were planning to start a band with Rod Stewart and...
Robin Trower | No More Worlds To Conquer – New Studio Release Review
Tasty, tight, and pretty much terrific guitar playing is what we have come to expect from an elder statesman like Robin Tower, and this is what we get across...
Black Country Communion | V – New Studio Release Review
From the outset, Black Country Communion seemed like a one-off supergroup. The group’s four members were all involved in other projects and would return to those after their 2011...
Warrant | Born Again – CD Review
What’s Black ’N Blue and rocks all over? It’s Warrant, thundering
up from where the down boys go with Born Again, featuring new
singer Jaime St. James of Black ’N Blue...
Fly Like An Eagle: An All-Star Tribute To Steve Miller Band – CD Review
A veteran at producing and playing on tribute albums, former Yes guitarist Billy Sherwood has surrounded himself with some of the very best progressive rock musicians in the world....
Roadcase Royale | First Things First – CD Review
Something familiar, something new, a little rock and a little blues. If that seems like something you might hear with regard to a marriage, well, you’re not far off....
Mick Jagger | Goddess In The Doorway
The beauty behind the Rolling Stones has always been their unrefined, coarse manner. Even as they have cleaned up their act in recent years, the swagger is still very...
