This Is My Voice | Chocolate Watchband – CD Review

You may have caught Chocolate Watchband's uproarious shenanigans in Riot On Sunset Strip and The Love-Ins. Maybe you dug their take of the Kinks' "I'm Not Like Everybody Else,"...

Dennis DeYoung | 26 East, Volume 2 – New Studio Release Review

26 East, Volume 2 supposedly marks former Styx vocalist and keyboardist Dennis DeYoung’s goodbye to the world of recorded music. This second part of what started as the end...

Ronnie Montrose | 10×10 – CD Review

When I interviewed Ronnie Montrose in 2011, one comment he made resonated to my core: “I realized that early on that your muse is very important to follow.” Even...

Peter Frampton | Frampton Forgets The Words – New Studio Release Review

Peter Frampton amassed 10 of his favorite pieces of music for his all-instrumental album for 2021, Frampton Forgets the Words. On this follow-up to 2019’s All Blues — and reminiscent of his...

Deep Purple | =1 – New Studio Release Review

For Deep Purple, The Long Goodbye has changed to We’re Not Going Anywhere. Indeed, it appeared the group was winding down when they announced their fabled Long Goodbye tour...

Andy Jackson | Signal To Noise – CD Review

The first thing you'll notice about Andy Jackson's Signal To Noise is that it's step into Pink Floydian soundscapes. Which isn't a surprise when you consider that Jackson worked...

Roger Waters | Is This The Life We Really Want? – CD Review

It only seems logical that Roger Waters would want someone like Nigel Godrich to produce his 2017 release Is This The Life We Really Want?. The Pink Floyd lyricist...

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...

Journey | Freedom – New Studio Release Review

Well, Journey are at it again….over a decade later! Not since 2011's Eclipse have we gotten an album of all-new songs from this band that made the Rock and Roll Hall...

AC/DC | Power Up – New Studio Release Review

What else could we possibly need more in these ‘new nothing-but normal’ times than AC/DC?! The long road this band has hoed between releasing Rock Or Bust in 2014 and 2020’s...