PUBLIC IMAGE LTD ALIVE A WAY WITH MEDIA Following 2023’s brilliant Public Image Ltd. album, End Of World, Johnny Lydon lost his wife, Nora (with whom he had been since 1979), and his longtime manager, John Rambo Stevens. No one knew what Lydon [...]
YES AURORA INSIDEOUT Aurora is the second Yes album featuring the lineup of Jon Davison (lead vocals acoustic guitars), Steve Howe (guitars banjo guitar, mandolin, autoharp and vocals), Geoff Downes (organ, synthesizers, piano, keyboards, [...]
JON SPENCER SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST SHOVE RECORDS Jon Spencer is back with his first album since 2024’s Sick Of Being Sick!. With this album, Songs Of Personal Loss And Protest, Spencer is joined by his touring trio, Kendall Wind [...]
SWEET LIVE AT THE CAPITOL (HANNOVER 1991) METALVILLE Sweet continues to mine their archives for another (re) release of live material from the early 1990s. And this is an extremely good thing. Sweet is usually lumped in with ‘glam’ bands or AM [...]
MIDGE URE A MAN OF TWO WORLDS CHRYSALIS It has been 12 years since Midge Ure released a studio album of new material (in 2024 he did release The Sessions (Backstage Lockdown Club) which was a studio album of him revisiting older songs recorded [...]
KALEO A/B (10th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION) RHINO RECORDS Kaleo formed in Mosfellsbær, Iceland in 2012 and is still going strong. In 2016 they released a landmark album that earned them numerous accolades, awards and high chart placements. When [...]
A BEAUTIFUL, CRAZY KIND OF ART FORM A CONVERSATION WITH JON SPENCER Jon Spencer has been playing his own style of music for over 40 years. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion really did explode on the scene in 1991 with their classic album A Reverse [...]
LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY & MOUSE ON MARS SPATIAL, NO PROBLEM DOMINO RECORDS Lee “Scratch” Perry passed away on August 29, 2021. The music world lost a true original and an artist who had worked with just about everyone. But that didn’t mean he [...]
FIREBUG DUST AND ECHOES BUDDHA BELT RECORDS FireBug has been making music since 2017. The core of FireBug is Juliette Tworsey (lead vocal, guitar, slide guitar, piano, organ) and Jules Shapiro (lead guitar, synthesizer, bass). This EP, Dust and [...]
JALEN NGONDA DOCTRINE OF LOVE DAPTONE RECORDS Jalen Ngonda burst on the scene in 2023 with his debut album, Come Around And Love Me, and justifiably earned critical acclaim for his own style of soul music that owes a great deal of debt to Motown [...]
THROTTLE BODY M/C ALL THAT WAS GREEN MONKEY RECORDS Throttle Body M/C is really a project for Jerry Hammack, a well-known engineer, producer, writer, and musician. Hammack played all the instruments, produced, wrote, and engineered the album, so [...]
FIVE MEMBERS WORKING TOGETHER IN HARMONY A CONVERSATION WITH JON DAVISON OF YES Yes formed in London in 1968 with their debut album Yes being released one year later. The original line-up of Yes was the founding members Jon Anderson (vocals, [...]
PAUL McCARTNEY THE BOYS OF DUNGEON LANE MPL/UNIVERSAL It has been over five years since Paul McCartney’s last studio album, McCartney III, and McCartney has noted that during those years, he took his time with what became The Boys of Dungeon [...]
THE ALARM TRANSFORMATION TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY RECORDINGS This is a rather difficult review, not because there is any question about the quality of the music in the package, but because this is Mike Peters’ farewell. I bought The Alarm’s [...]
DOUBLESPEAK DOUBLESPEAK LONDON RECORDS Doublespeak is a supergroup of three influential and much-loved electrobeat artists from the past 40 years. Neil Arthur (Blancmange, Fader), Vince Clarke (Yazoo, Depeche Mode, Erasure), and Benge [...]
FROM OBSCURE CUTS TO NEW CLASSICS A CONVERSATION WITH VINCE CLARKE, NEIL ARTHUR & BENGE OF DOUBLESPEAK Whenever three superstars get together to form a band or complete a project, it is big news. In this case, anyone who has followed [...]
J.C. THOMAZ AND THE MISSING SLIPPERS J.C. THOMAZ AND THE MISSING SLIPPERS SLOVENLY RECORDINGS From Rotterdam, NL, comes the gritty punk/post punk of J.C. Thomaz and The Missing Slippers. Reportedly this debut album was two decades in the making [...]
PETER FRAMPTON CARRY THE LIGHT UME It is a good idea to forget what you think you know about Peter Frampton before you listen to his new album, Carry The Light. This is an extremely important album for Peter Frampton. Not only is it his first [...]
PAT GILBERT – PASSION IS A FASHION: THE REAL STORY OF THE CLASH AURUM/QUARTO GROUP BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Pat Gilbert’s Passion Is A Fashion: The Real Story of The Clash has stood out from other bios on The Clash since it was first [...]
TOM DOYLE – RINGO STARR: A FAB LIFE ECW PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Tom Doyle is a very respected music journalist who has also written several books about many artists. His library includes books about Paul McCartney, Elton John, [...]
TEENAGE LESSONS SET ME RIGHT A CONVERSATION WITH STEPHEN PATMAN OF CHAPTERHOUSE Chapterhouse formed in Reading, Berkshire in 1987 when three friends came together with a common love of music. Andrew Sherriff (vocals, guitar), Stephen Patman [...]
THE WOGGLES STOP AND TAKE A MINUTE WICKED COOL RECORDS The Woggles’ debut album was released in 1993 (Teen Dance Party), since then they have released 11 studio albums and a number of singles. The singles are the stars of the show here, as a [...]
AYRIA VICIOUS WORLD ARTOFFACT RECORDS Jennifer Parkin has been releasing music under the Ayria moniker since 2003 (Debris was Ayria’s debut album). Although she is the driving force behind the project, over the years she has had a number of [...]
DEE LONG WATER IS MAGIC DEE LONG MUSIC It has been far too long since the last Dee Long album, 2011’s Life AfterLife. While there had been some singles and an EP, Long’s voice and guitar playing had been missing. But he is back with his new [...]
