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...
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,...
John Mellencamp | Life, Death, Love And Freedom – CD Review
Fresh from producing the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss record Raising
Sand, T Bone Burnett has set his sights on another figure whose image
is forever ingrained in struggle, gumption and...
JJ Cale & Eric Clapton | Road To Escondido – CD Review
Most music fans are not familiar with the name J.J. Cale, but they do know his music. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Deep Purple, Widespread Panic, Johnny Cash and many
others have all...
Pat Travers | Swing! – CD Review
Forty years into his career, who would have ever thought electric guitar master Pat Travers would start swinging…for real? On his eight-song album Swing!, Travers interprets classics of the...
Terry Bozzio Composer Series – CD Review
We all know Terry Bozzio for his drumming with Steve Vai, Jeff Beck, and Frank Zappa, as well as leading Missing Persons, his many drum clinics and his one-man...
Neil Young | Fork In The Road – New Studio Release Review
I know what you’re thinking: Another new Neil Young album? What about Archives? And before you go off thinking Young just threw this new album together on a whim...
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...
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...
Elliott Murphy | Infinity – New Studio Release Review
The 52nd album by internationally acclaimed American singer-songwriter, and long-time Paris resident Elliott Murphy mines provocative, wry lyricism, and solid, yet simple production, forays this icon has been making...
