Thursday, February 20, 2025

Samantha Fish Makes Sweet Southern Sounds

This coming April, the Kansas City-bred, New Orleans-based musician Samantha Fish will unveil what’s been described as her “fiercest work to date” with a...

Album Reviews

Bonfire reach Higher Ground

Between 2020 and 2025, Bonfire spent time rolling back the years by working on re-recording their first three studio albums and releasing a semi-unplugged...

Live Reviews

Liverpool loudly declares “We Love Papa Roach”

It's been 25 years since Papa Roach dropped Infest, one of the most iconic and genre-defining albums in nu-metal. Their use of hip-hop influence...

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Modern Classic: Brave Rival – Life’s Machine

With the impending release of their second album in August I have been revisiting the rather excellent 2022 debut of a band from the...

Under The Spell of Old Trees – A Retrospective Glance at Nidingr’s Rehearsal 1996

Today, I figured that it would be interesting to cast a flickering yet hopefully illuminating light on a rather obscure release from that gloriously...

RAMzine Classic: Stevie Salas Colorcode

For an artist that has appeared on over 70 different albums with artists from George Clinton, Justin Timberlake and Buddy Miles to Mick Jagger...

Reflections on Bill Ward’s outstanding solo album

Legendary drummer Bill Ward (ex-Black Sabbath) released an overlooked gem of an album back in 1997 entitled When the Bough Breaks, and I figured...

See The Light by Jeff Healey – RAMzine Classic

There are many ways of finding a new artist, especially in this internet age - it wasn’t always that easy. An example of one...

Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love: A People’s History

Led Zeppelin, a name attributed to Keith Moon—who reportedly remarked that Jimmy Page's new band would crash like a "Lead Zeppelin"—never attained the level...

Dave Barbarossa novel ‘Mute’ – A story about rock’n’roll, and the lies we tell ourselves

It’s 1999 and Daniel Earl is 25 and now famous. He’s the keyboard maestro in a band which’s become successful, with his bandmates Dave...