Rival Sons | Darkfighter – New Studio Release Review
Darkfighter is Rival Sons’ first new music since their 2019 Grammy-nominated release, Feral Roots. Mostly written and recorded during the pandemic, the album provided the band with a golden...
Fanny Walked The Earth – CD Review
Before the Runaways, before the Go-Go's, before the Bangles — there was Fanny, the first "all-girl" rock band to sign on with a major label and make a serious...
Bruce Springsteen | Devils & Dust – CD Review
Baffled by the mass devotion he continually conjurs up, I contend that Bruce Springsteen is better served when he strips things down, pulls up a stool, strums an acoustic,...
Van Morrison | Magic Time – CD Review
U2 isn’t Ireland’s only musical icon. Forty years ago, Van Morrison
and his band Them blasted out of Belfast with a rough and dirty R&B edge
that rivaled the Stones and...
Honey West | Bad Old World – CD Review
From the jangly two-guitar attack of “The September Issue” with a wry lyric that might just make you laugh out loud, “Terri and Julie” with its harmony vocal bridge,...
Adrian Belew | Side Three – CD Review
“Expect the Expected” seems to be the motto these days in the
music industry. It seems that the once-wonderful art of music has fell prey
to the dollar. There is now...
Mandoki Soulmates | A Memory Of Our Future – New Studio Release Review
To say there is a lot going on with Leslie Mandoki’s supergroup Mandoki Soulmates, would be a huge understatement. The international collective of musicians playing behind the Hungarian producer,...
Bonnie Raitt | Slipstream – New Studio Release Review
Unlike most of her contemporaries, Bonnie Raitt is as good a guitar player, singer, performer and recording artist today as she was in 1971 when she released her self-titled...
Deep Purple | inFinite – New Studio Release Review
How do you follow up your best album in three decades? If you’re Deep Purple, you enlist the same producer (Bob Ezrin), pray the muse is still on board,...
Steve Morse Band | Out Standing In Their Field – New Studio Release Review
Although he’s been wielding the ax for Deep Purple for 16 years, Steve Morse has maintained his own instrumental band since 1984. The opportunity to make albums away from...
