Nazareth | Bad Dogz – CD Review

Nazareth are kicking it old school on their 2011 release, Big Dogz. In a career that has spanned 40 years, seen over 20 albums released and an amazing 6o million sold...

Beatallica | Abbey Load – CD Review

Beatallica's Abbey Load is for Beatlemaniacs with a zen for hijinks, heavy metal junkies or Metallicaheads - or someone into all three. This 15-song Fab Four tribute is complete...

John Wetton | Raised In Captivity – CD Review

John Wetton told me that being in California certainly influenced the making of his 2011 solo CD Raised In Captivity. Produced by multi-instrumentalist Billy Sherwood, this is the sixth...

Rated X | Rated X – CD Review

When Frontiers Records President Serafino Perugino suggested to former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner that he put a band together, drummer Carmine Appice was called given his long history...

Gregg Allman | Southern Blood – CD Review

Gregg Allman’s entire 50-year career was built on grit. Whether he was aching musically or physically, he always sang and played through the pain he felt. The result yielded...

Intelligent Music Project II | My Kind O’ Lovin’ – CD review

Intelligent Music Project’s My Kind O’ Lovin’ is the second offering from composer and producer Dr. Milen Vrabevski. The man’s uplifting lyric and ‘intelligence’ has helped him in gathering...

Bobby Kimball | We’re Not In Kansas Anymore – CD Review

Bobby Kimball was the lead vocalist on the first four Toto albums, lending his distinctive voice to hits like "Rosanna” and “Hold The Line.” Given his credentials, one should...

James Taylor | Covers – CD Review

I’m sure, that if you asked me to name a better male vocalist in popular music of the last 30 years, I couldn’t conjure anyone better then James Taylor. The guy...

Bruce Springsteen | Devils & Dust – CD Review

Baffled by the mass devotion he continually conjurs up, I contend that Bruce Springsteen is better served when he strips things down, pulls up a stool, strums an acoustic,...

The Rolling Stones | Blue & Lonesome – CD Review

No retirement announcements, no farewell tours, their fabled 50th anniversary come and gone — the Stones, gathering no moss, just keep on rolling. And now, right out of the...