Wishbone Ash | Blue Horizon – CD Review
When it comes to a twin-guitar approach, Wishbone Ash remains one of the forerunners. Their early progressive leanings gave way to a harder, bluesier direction that, through a myriad...
Michael Olivieri Band | M.O.B. – CD Review
Rare is the opportunity of reinvention realized for any musician trying to keep his or her head above the torrential tides of trends, tastes and commercial afterthoughts. Still, pet...
Meat Loaf | Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose – CD...
Meat Loaf’s original Bat Out Of Hell album marked a
seminal moment in my teenage years. Not only was it an album I loved (and still
love), but seeing Mr. Loaf...
The Moody Blues | December – CD Review
December, the Moody Blues' first holiday album, is a light and peaceful offering, a great Christmas gift for a fair-weather fan and a nice addition to the catalog for...
Steve Hackett | The Circus And The Nightwhale – New Studio Release Review
When he isn’t thrilling audiences the world over, revisiting Genesis classics, Steve Hackett churns out wildly ambitious solo albums — 30 to be exact. For 2024, he’s made it...
Gov’t Mule | High & Mighty – CD Review
Since the demise of partner-in-crime/in-the-pocket bassist Allen Woody, maverick
guitarist/vocalist Warren Haynes has practically made it his life’s mission
to become the world’s busiest and most in-demand musician. Yet, somehow
between his...
Jeff Lynne’s ELO | From Out Of Nowhere – New Studio Release Review
The title track from From Out Of Nowhere, the 2019 release from Jeff Lynne's ELO, showcases familiar ELO tropes with a single guitar line melody, jangly guitar rhythm, orchestral spikes,...
Mick Abrahams | Revived – CD Review
Mick Abrahams is most certainly Revived!, and we are the better for it. Having suffered a heart attack in 2009, Jethro Tull's original guitarist and founder of Blodwyn Pig...
David Gilmour | Rattle That Lock – CD Review
David Gilmour's first studio release since 2006's On An Island, Rattle That Lock contains 10 tracks composed by the guitarist — five with lyrics by writer (and wife) Polly...
The Rolling Stones | Foreign Tongues – New Studio Release Review
Raucous and heartfelt, disco beats and falsettos, guest musicians, a goodly amount of that all-too-infrequent but always blindingly brilliant Jagger harmonica, recorded in London, another post-humous appearance by Charlie...
