Review: King King – King King Live
“Hey, hey – You came!” calls out Alan Nimmo in mock surprise amidst a whooping crowd as guitars tune up and drums bash down...
Review: Alter Bridge – The Last Hero
Every few years, there is an album that is released, that is considered so near perfect it will go down in music history as...
Joe Bonamassa – Live At The Greek Theatre
In ancient times kings established their hegemony by claiming that their divine right to rule came direct from their ancestors, the gods. By the...
Review: Kansas – The Prelude Implicit
15 albums down the road, a tinkling piano over the Celtic heartbeat that is ‘With This Heart’ acts as overture to The Prelude Implicit,...
Review: Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
Dillinger Escape Plan are calling it a day. That news should signal a national day of mourning and yet to the mainstream; it will...
Sari Schorr & The Engine Room – A Force Of Nature
The lady sings the blues, and then she rocks. The too obvious comparison is Janis Joplin (sometimes I wonder how many people have actually...
Review: Opeth – Sorceress
The beautiful opening on this album from ‘Persephone’ takes all your stresses and worries away like no tomorrow. It allows you to sit back...
Review: Against Me! – Shape Shift With Me
Against Me! are a special band. Their last three albums all have a claim to being stone cold classics (the ones before those aren’t...
Review: King 810 – La Petite Mort or a Conversation with God
When you think of America’s most desirable locations in which to take a well-deserved summer holiday, it’s rather unlikely that Flint, Michigan would be...
Review: SHVPES – Pain. Joy. Ecstasy. Despair
The sheer energy exhumed by this latest instalment by SHVPES gives you a very good understanding of what it would be like to see...
