Yoso | Elements – CD Review
Is Yoso a super group? Featuring Toto’s Bobby Kimball on vocals (you’ll remember him singing those big hits “Africa” and “Rosanna”), Tony Kaye and Billy Sherwood, both formerly of...
Bernie Marsden | Shine – CD Review
We have all, at one time or other, picked up a CD and halfway through the first track, smiled and said to ourselves, "This is pretty damned good." The...
Styx | The Mission – New Studio Release Review
It’s been nearly a decade and a half since we had an all-new studio album from Styx. The Mission, an honest-to-goodness ‘concept’ album, is their sixteenth. Recorded over a...
Joe Satriani | Shockwave Supernova – CD Review
There was a time when super guitarist Joe Satriani stepped up and sang on his records. He did a decent job on 1991's Flying In A Blue Dream, but...
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...
David Hasselhoff | Open Your Eyes – CD Review
Unaware of it as many of us probably are (unless you happen to be living in Germany), David Hasselhoff, star of TV's Baywatch and Knight Rider, has released 14 studio albums...
Styx | Circling From Above – New Studio Release Review
Perennial rockers Styx recently toured behind their breakthrough album The Grand Illusion, playing the 1977 masterwork in its entirety before adoring fans clamoring for radio staples “Come Sail Away”...
Alice Cooper | Road – New Studio Release Review
Not that anyone would ever need reminding, but Alice Cooper does just that of who he is and what he’s about on the anthemic tribal beat opener “I’m Alice,”...
The Last Hombres | Odd Fellows Rest – CD review
A mix of horns, jangly guitars, deceptively complicated backbeats and a fair amount of solid vocal harmonies are at the root of the new The Last Hombres' Odd Fellows...
Asia | Gravitas – CD Review
The sweet rise of harmony vocals opens "Valkyrie," a song that flows into the catchy first tune on Asia's 2014 studio release Gravitas. We're down to three-quarters of the...
