George Thorogood & The Destroyers | The Dirty Dozen – CD Review

Buying a George Thorogood & The Destroyers is almost like buying an AC/DC album. In both cases, you pretty much know what you’re in for. No surprises, nothing experimental — just...

Neil Diamond | Home Before Dark – CD Review

When you’ve enjoyed a successful four-decade musical career with 125 million records sold worldwide, multiple Top 40 hits, the requisite awards and sold-out shows where ever you play, it...

Conspiracy | The Unknown – CD Review

Yes reissues from Rhino continue to fall from the sky at an alarming rate. When they unearth bonus tracks for albums likeTales From Topographic Oceans, Relayer and Going For...

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,...

Slash | World On Fire – CD Review

Things seem to be working out for Slash, Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators. Their first full album together, 2012's Apocalyptic Love, fared well with the public, scoring chart success...

John Lodge | 10,000 Light Years Ago – CD Review

John Lodge, the Moody Blues singer, songwriter and bassist, has released his second (and his first since 1977's Natural Avenue) solo album 10,000 Light Years Ago, an eight song...

Scorpions | Rock Believer – New Studio Release Review

It was a bit of a long slog for one of Germany’s greatest musical exports to achieve chart dominance in the states back in the day. Yet ever since...

Paul Rodgers | Midnight Rose – New Studio Release Review

Given the breadth of health issues Paul Rodgers has experienced in recent years — reportedly 11 minor strokes and two major strokes since 2016 — it’s a miracle he...

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...

Jethro Tull | RökFlöte – New Studio Release Review

Two Jethro Tull albums in back-to-back years?  Yes, for the first time since 1980, Tull has followed up 2022’s The Zealot Gene a year later with the exotically titled...