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...
HeadCat | Walk The Walk…Talk The Talk – CD Review
What do you get when you put Lemmy Kilmister, Slim Jim Phantom and Danny B. Harvey in one band? You get HeadCat. The Cat’s Walk The Walk…Talk The Talk...
Martin Barre | Back To Steel – CD Review
The heavy, hard-riffing title track with a big chorus opens Martin Barre's 2015 release Back To Steel. The longtime Jethro Tull ax man has released five previous solo albums...
Earl & The Agitators | Shaken & Stirred – CD Review
Earl & The Agitators is Roger Earl, drummer and original member of the fabulous original Foghat; vocalist, lead guitarist, 10 year veteran with Buddy Guy Scott Holt; Foghat’s current...
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,...
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...
Bryan Ferry | Dylanesque – CD Review
I have been a Bryan Ferry fan going back to the Roxy Music days. “Love
Is The Drug” being one of those great all-time songs, Ferry’s impact
on that era goes...
The Zombies | Different Game – New Studio Release Review
Not that this could be anybody else, but from the title track of The Zombies’ Different Game, with its upfront blasting ‘dirty’ organ, strings slipping in, and a distinct...
Chicago | Born For This Moment – New Studio Release Review
Chicago comes at us in 2022 with 14 new songs on their 38th studio album, Born For This Moment. With more than 100 million albums sold worldwide, a Rock and Roll...
Rival Sons | Great Western Valkyrie – CD Review
There's a popular notion that "Classic Rock" is defined by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and other artists of the 1960s and 1970s. These bands...
