BIF NAKED CHAMPION HER ROYAL MAJESTY’S RECORDS Champion is Bif Naked’s first album in 15 years (her last album The Promise was released in 2009) and the time between albums has not slowed her down one bit. Naked has returned with a [...]
PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS ONE HAND CLAPPING MPL/UNIVERSAL Paul McCartney recently turned 82, and he is as busy as ever. He is not slowing down one bit. Along with a sold-out tour of South America, Europe, and the U.K, he has been busy with [...]
THE LUSTRE THE LUSTRE INDEPENDENT Everyone loves a feel-good story, and the history of The Lustre is a great feel-good story of friends, music fans and a bunch of guys who got together to play music. The six-member band started with two friends, [...]
LOREENA McKENNITT THE MASK AND THE MIRROR LIVE QUINLAN ROAD In 1994, Loreena McKennitt released her fifth studio album, The Mask And The Mirror, and it became her breakthrough album. It went gold in the U.S., triple platinum in Canada, and she [...]
PSYCHIC GRAVEYARD WILTING ARTOFFACT RECORDS Psychic Graveyard is Eric Paul (vocals), Paul Vieria (guitar), Charles Ovett (drums) and Nathan Joyner (guitars and synthesizer) and Wilting is their fourth studio album. The music that these four guys [...]
HANK HERNANDEZ ME ON THE OTHER SIDE INDEPENDENT Hank Hernandez is the latest project from the very talented Bryan Binnema. Hank Hernandez has an interesting sound, and the EP is full of very catchy, well-written rock songs that tips its hat to [...]
THE WOGGLES TIME HAS COME WICKED COOL RECORDS The Woggles have been making music for over 30 years, and Time Has Come is their first full length album since 2017’s Tally Ho! The Woggles are not trying to reinvent themselves with Time Has Come. [...]
CHINA CRISIS CHINA GREATNESS LAST NIGHT FROM GLASGOW Gary Daly (lead vocals/keyboards) and Eddie Lundon (guitarist/vocalist) came together in 1979 and formed China Crisis. Over the years, there have been several member changes, but they have [...]
YES TALK (30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) SPIRIT OF UNICORN MUSIC Talk is an interesting album from Yes. It was their 14th studio album, originally released in 1994. The line-up for this album is Jon Anderson (vocals), Chris Squire (bass), Alan White [...]
UNDERRATED, IGNORED, CONSIDERED IRRELEVANT AND ALL THE REST OF IT A CONVERSATION WITH MARK BURGESS OF THE CHAMELEONS The Chameleons formed in Greater Manchester in 1981, and at the time, the line-up included Mark Burgess (vocals, bass), Reg [...]
ROCK ME GENTLY: THE SONG ABSOLUTELY NOBODY WANTED TO SIGN, PRODUCE, OR PLAY ON THE RADIO A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY KIM 1974, the year that pop music and AM radio were still king. The four former Beatles were all riding high in the charts, Disco [...]
BENJAMIN RUSSELL AND GREG FRASER GHOST PARTICLES (MESSAGES FROM RUDE VAN STEENES) TCBE RECORDS This EP began life as a collaboration between Greg Fraser and Rude Van Steenes who sadly passed away before the project was complete. With complete [...]
PIG RED ROOM METROPOLIS RECORDS Raymond Watts returns with his PIG moniker. This is another album full of strong opinions, lyrics, music and melodies. While the music certainly leans toward the heavy, angry, grinding electronic music. It is full [...]
THE PLEASURE DOME LIMINAL SPACE HOUND GAWD! RECORDS The Pleasure Dome formed in 2019 in Bristol in the U.K. For a three-piece band, they certainly make a strong and loud noise. They have a distinct post-punk punk sound full of energy, grinding [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS YESTERDAY’S FAVOURITE (A TRIBUTE TO TALK TALK) COITUS INTERRUPTUS PRODUCTIONS There are some artists in rock history that seem almost sacred and as such other bands have been reluctant to cover their songs. Bands like Joy [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS PUNK FLOYD – A TRIBUTE TO PINK FLOYD CLEOPATRA RECORDS When Dirk McQuickly left The Rutles, he formed The Punk Floyd. This album, Punk Floyd – A Tribute To Pink Floyd, is not the long lost album by that band, but rather punk [...]
JOE MATERA – LOUDER THAN WORDS: BEYOND THE BACKSTAGE PASS EMPIRE PUBLICATIONS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Joe Matera has had a very diverse and interesting career in music. The Italian-Australian musician, who is based in Australia, not [...]
STEPHEN SANCHEZ ANGEL FACE (CLUB DELUXE) MERCURY RECORDS/REPUBLIC RECORDS/UNIVERSAL MUSIC In 2023 I reviewed Stephen Sanchez’s debut album, Angel Face for Spill Magazine. Although I did not include it in the original review, I do recall thinking [...]
GOSPELBEACH WIGGLE YOUR FINGERS CURATION RECORDS Gospelbeach is a band out of Los Angeles. Wiggle Your Fingers is an incredibly well-produced and well-written album that is full of strong melodies, fantastic lyrics, and spirit. Although they are [...]
BILLY MORRISON THE MORRISON PROJECT TLG/ZOID/VIRGIN MUSIC GROUP Many will know the name Billy Morrison as Billy Idol’s rhythm guitarist for the past 15 years. However, there is a great deal more to this artist than being a member of a band. He [...]
BRIAN ENO ENO (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) UNIVERSAL MUSIC/UMC Eno (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), as the title suggests, is the official soundtrack to the 2024 Gary Hustwit documentary Eno. Brian Eno has been making music since [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS REIMAGINING THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING CLEOPATRA RECORDS Tribute albums are always a tricky thing. When artists cover a much-loved album, there are some very high expectations for the covers. Recording a tribute album with [...]
BONNIE TYLER IN BERLIN earMUSIC Bonnie Tyler made her recording debut in 1977 with the album The World Starts Tonight. But it was her second album, 1978’s Natural Force, which was released as It’s A Heartache in North America, that made her a [...]
UB40 UB45 SRG RECORDS/UNIVERSAL UB40 formed in 1978, with the Campbell Brothers, Ali and Robin, being two of the founding members. To say their history is nothing short of fascinating does not do their story justice. The By 1980 the band was [...]
