Rated X | Rated X – CD Review
When Frontiers Records President Serafino Perugino suggested to former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner that he put a band together, drummer Carmine Appice was called given his long history...
Leslie West | Unusual Suspects – CD Review
His career began with the Vagrants, one of the few teenage garage rock bands to come out of NYC. But Leslie West is probably best remembered as a founding...
Tangerine Dream | Paradiso – CD Review
How could any red-blooded American male forget those delicious scenes of Tom
Cruise atop a writhing Rebecca De Mornay in the movie Risky Business
(remember the ‘choo choo’ train scene?). Behind...
Bachman | Heavy Blues – CD Review
Randy Bachman is a man who likes to take risks. He took a big one when he left the Guess Who in 1970. Sidelined by health and personal issues,...
Santana | Santana IV – CD Review
The original Santana band formed in 1967, were managed by Bill Graham and blasted into national prominence at Woodstock. Infusing a slew of musical styles filled with Latin flavors...
The Who | Endless Wire – CD Review
OK, I admit it: I truly believed not so long ago that the Who were a creatively spent entity. Twenty-four years is just way too long between albums, especially...
Mudcrutch | 2 – CD Review
An upfront harmonica and acoustic guitar jangle pushes Randall Marsh's upbeat snare snap of the wry biographical "Trailer," the first tune of 2, the second album by Mudcrutch. With...
Dave Davies | Rippin’ Up Time – CD Review
In 2013, when Dave Davies showed up with I Will Be Me, his first studio album in six years, it would have been reasonable to believe we wouldn’t see...
Black Country Communion | Black Country Communion – CD Review
In an age of odd pairings and off-the-wall unions, the idea of a supergroup seems as quaint and antiquated as factory cassettes. They still have them though, don’t they?...
Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Americana – CD Review
It's been near a decade since Neil Young & Crazy Horse have released a record together and things might have changed for us all. But when you get these...
