Tears for Fears | The Tipping Point – New Studio Release Review
In 1985, UK musicians Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith redefined MTV-era pop music with primal anthems of self-expression. Their second album, Songs From The Big Chair would top the...
ZZ Top | La Futura – CD Review
Nine years since the famous Tres Hombres - Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill, better known as ZZ Top - released a full-length album, La Futura features none...
Iron Maiden | Senjutsu – New Studio Release Review
Unlike so many of their peers, Iron Maiden is a band who refuses to rest on their laurels. Instead, they continue to pump out “new” music when others stick...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Mojo – CD Review
And now for something completely different. Instead of tasking other sources to gauge my feelings for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 2010 release Mojo, I chose to give the...
Foghat | Last Train Home – CD Review
When does a band stop being the band it was and become something totally new?
If a group has seen too many personal changes, deaths, or splits, is it still
the...
Neal Schon | Vortex – CD Review
Vortex, guitarist Neal Schon’s ninth solo album, is a two-CD guitar work-out of noodling high-fret explosions without the pop expectations of Journey. Pushed along by ex-Journey drummer Steve Smith,...
Glenn Hughes | Resonate – CD Review
In 2009, Glenn Hughes told me his then-latest record FUNK was "more of a Glenn album than ever before…a very complete Glenn Hughes record; a very complete tapestry of...
Judas Priest | Firepower – CD Review
Heavy metal continues to thrive as one of the genre's pioneers recently demonstrated. Firepower, Judas Priest's 18th studio album, debuted at #5 on Billboard’s 200 — their highest charting...
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....
Eric Clapton & Friends | The Breeze: An Appreciation Of JJ Cale – CD...
"Call Me The Breeze" is the appropriate opener for Eric Clapton & Friends' The Breeze: An Appreciation Of JJ Cale. It's pure MOR Clapton with a clear-as-a-bell-vocal and quick...
