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...
Whitesnake | Good To Be Bad – CD Review
What comes around…Here it is 2008 and all of a sudden it’s like 1988 all over again. It’s true, if you wait 20 years, what was once hip will...
Marc Ford | Weary & Wired – CD Review
As a member of the Black Crowes and Ben Harper’s Innocent Criminals,
Marc Ford sold millions of albums and played in front of millions more. Coming
with the success are the...
Joe Perry | Sweetzerland Manifesto – CD Review
Accompanied by a slew of famous singers and songwriters, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry presents his sixth solo album Sweetzerland Manifesto. Steven Tyler’s foil and the co-writer of many of...
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...
Asia | XXX – CD Review
Thirty years after their eponymous debut hit and remained on #1 on the Billboard charts for nine consecutive weeks, the original Asia returns XXX, their third studio album since...
ROVO & System 7 | Phoenix Rising – CD Review
Guitar legend Steve Hillage and vocalist Miquette Giraudy’s System 7 have merged with Japanese progressive rock band ROVO to present Phoenix Rising for your musical edification and sensual head...
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...
Ricky Byrd | Lifer – CD Review
With the great 50s-influenced "Rock 'N' Roll Boys," Ricky Byrd opens his first-ever album, Lifer. This autobiographical little ditty sets the stage perfectly for what turns out to be...
Sammy Hagar | Cosmic Universal Fashion – CD Review
One has to wonder if Sammy Hagar is ever going to escape the shadow of Van
Halen. After all, the guy had his own history and a moderately successful solo
career...
