The Pineapple Thief Box Set Review: Retracing Our Steps
This is a huge undertaking, an eight-CD set comprising all the band's official studio albums released between 2006 and 2014, with a few added...
Review: Shinedown – Threat To Survival
It feels like a long time since we had new music from Shinedown. Granted, we had 'Smith and Myers Acoustic Covers' in 2014 to...
De La Cruz – Street Level
It’s more than a stretch in the ocean from the Sunset Strip to Bondi Beach but when the sounds of Van Halen got a...
Review: Giant of The Mountain – The Empty Quarter
Drawing the moon down through the mountains and into the valley, the Giant of the Mountain rears his head to breathe his dreadful anguish...
Status Quo’s Francis Rossi: The Accidental Review
Every rock fan knows Francis Rossi. He's been a permanent part of the furniture on the rock scene for fifty years plus, responsible for...
Rory Gallagher – Portraits (Rufus Publications)
Asked once by a critic "What does it feel like to be the best guitarist in the world?" Jimi Hendrix is said to have...
Unbreakable Tour: Parkway Drive, Stick To Your Guns, Asking Alexandria
Stick To Your Guns were first on and came out of the traps with all guns blazing! For an opening act they gave it...
Review: WSTR – Red, Green or Inbetween
Bandwagon jumping has long appeared preferable to trendsetting in the world of pop-punk, and with debut record Red, Green or Inbetween’ it appears that Liverpudlian...
Broken Witt Rebels, The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham, April 2016
Second City kids on a Friday night out: lads fresh from the cash point supping from bottles of beer, girls in their party frocks...
Ballroom Blitz And Rampage At Winterstorm Festival – An Evening With Sweet
Arriving at the annual WinterStorm festival in Troon, Scotland, in late November is always a proper treat, and I can think of no better...




























