Buckcherry | 15 – CD Review

15 is audio adrenaline. It’ll make you want to do smoky burnouts in school zones, blast it loud enough to rattle your neighbors’ dentures, and enlist it as your main piece...

Sky King | Morose Tales From The Left Coast – CD Review

Where have I heard this before? It sounds familiar, yet at the same time it is new. Sky King's Morose Tales From The Left Coast is not one of...

Gong | 2032 – New Studio Release Review

Gong, the progressive band born during the 1968 Paris student riots, has released some wild jazz fusion space funk over the years, but 2009 marks the band’s 40th anniversary...

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...

Van Morrison | Magic Time – CD Review

U2 isn’t Ireland’s only musical icon. Forty years ago, Van Morrison and his band Them blasted out of Belfast with a rough and dirty R&B edge that rivaled the Stones and...

Alice Cooper | Road – New Studio Release Review

Not that anyone would ever need reminding, but Alice Cooper does just that of who he is and what he’s about on the anthemic tribal beat opener “I’m Alice,”...

Bob Dylan | Triplicate – CD Review

Mining the same territory he did in his two previous releases, for Bob Dylan’s 38th studio release, Triplicate, our best pop songwriter once again ‘covers’ classic American tunes. This...

The Winery Dogs | III – New Studio Release Review

Album number three (i.e., III) from the Winery Dogs (vocalist and guitarist Richie Kotzen, drummer Mike Portnoy and bassist Billy Sheehan) is built around the monster trio’s ability to...

Scorpions | Sting In The Tail – CD Review

Finally, a band who knows when to throw in the towel, call it a day and head to the beach for some well-deserved R-n-R. Well, at least, that’s the strategy the...

Black Sabbath | 13 – CD Review

There’s a ton of expectation attached to well-known creative entities with big gaps in their working histories. The good news is that living up to a legacy can be...