JOHN & YOKO/PLASTIC ONO BAND POWER TO THE PEOPLE UNIVERSAL For a great many John Lennon fans, this is the box set they have been waiting for for quite some time. While Sean Lennon who produced Power To The People, released box sets several [...]
SPANDAU BALLET EVERYTHING IS NOW – VOL 1: 1978-1982 PARLOPHONE Spandau Ballet is often included with the “New Romantics,” but there was so much more to the band than the label would imply. This incredible box set goes a great distance to [...]
FINI TRIBE THE SHEER ACTION OF FINI TRIBE: 1982-1987 SHIPWRECKED INDUSTRIES Edinburgh may not be the first city you think of in terms of post-punk and new wave bands, but Fini Tribe (also referred to as Finitribe) did, in fact, come out of that [...]
BRIAN ENO & BEATIE WOLFE LIMINAL VERVE RECORDS Earlier this year, Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe released two incredible albums, Lateral (an ambient album) and Liminal (more of a standard album featuring Wolfe’s vocals). The duo has now released [...]
SWEET LIVE AT THE MARQUEE 1986 METALVILLE Sweet continues re-releasing older and hard to find CDs from the past. Not only are the albums being re-released, but they are also being made available on vinyl. Live At The Marquee was recorded at [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS CHILLING, THRILLING HOOKS AND HAUNTED HARMONIES BIG STIR RECORDS I love Halloween, it is a great time of the year. The candy, the scary movies, and the overall anticipation of the night. Ray Bradbury once wrote that Halloween [...]
WE REALLY WERE THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN A CONVERSATION WITH ED KUEPPER OF THE SAINTS ’73 – ’78 Although The Saints are best known as a punk and post-punk band, they actually started in 1973 in Brisbane, Australia. The band was [...]
BRUCE DICKINSON & STEVE HARRIS – IRON MAIDEN: INFINITE DREAMS THAMES & HUDSON BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY This is a massive book and accomplishment. A coffee table book all about Iron Maiden, and celebrating their 50 years as a [...]
THIS GENERATION STILL NEEDS TO HEAR THE FACT THAT THEY CAN DANCE IF THEY WANT TO A CONVERSATION WITH IVAN DOROSCHUK OF MEN WITHOUT HATS During the punk explosion of 1976, Ivan Doroschuk formed a band in 1977. The band, Men Without Hats, and once [...]
OZZY: NO ESCAPE FROM NOW ECHO VELVET/MTV OCTOBER 7, 2025 Ozzy: No Escape From Now is not an easy documentary to watch. It documents, in painful honesty, Ozzy’s last days. From his traumatic fall in 2019 up to his farewell show, this documentary, [...]
iC1s WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG? BE LUCKY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC The title of iC1s debut album, What Took You So Long? is somewhat amusing. After all, fans have been waiting a decade for it. iC1s were set to record their debut album back in 2014 after [...]
NOVELTY ISLAND JIGSAW CAUSEWAY 9×9 RECORDS Novelty Island is the brainchild of Liverpool artist Tom McConnell. Jigsaw Causeway is the third album from Novelty Island. This is an album that is rooted in pop-rock history while still pushing [...]
CHEMICAL WAVES OUR LOVE IN A DYING WORLD INDEPENDENT Chemical Waves is the brainchild of Marco Cattani. This is his project, and he has been making music under this moniker for well over 10 years. Our love in a dying world is the first Chemical [...]
STEVE PORCARO THE VERY DAY GREEN HILL MUSIC Steve Porcaro is a legend. Besides being a founding member of the group Toto, Porcaro has worked with almost every musician under the sun, such as Yes, Chicago, Pink Floyd, Paul Simon, and Steely Dan, [...]
COMPLETING SONGS IS AN ART FORM IN ITSELF A CONVERSATION WITH STEVE PORCARO Steve Porcaro has been producing some of the best and best-loved music since he was one of the founding members of Toto in 1978. Toto took off immediately, with their [...]
PANG ATTACK TEARS FOR THE WAVE INDEPENDENT Out of Montreal comes Pang Attack. Tears For The Wave is their second album, and their sophomore album has been a long time coming, eight years to be exact. Tears For The Wave not only live up to the [...]
GEESE GETTING KILLED PARTISAN RECORDS/[PIAS] Geese is based in New York City. Getting Killed is their fourth studio album and their best. Over the years the band has worked on establishing their own distinct sound. On Getting Killed, they [...]
DAVID PALFREYMAN OPENING TIME FOR THE BATTERED DITELI RECORDS David Palfreyman has been making music since 1980. He made his debut when he provided trombone for the 1980 album, The Sound of Rhodian Brass. Like Paul McCartney who put down his [...]
IMMERSION WTF?? SWIM~ Immersion consists of Wire’s Colin Newman, and his wife Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact), and WTF?? is their fourth studio and first full-length album since 2016’s Analogue Creatures Living On An Island. Matt Schulz (Holy [...]
I’M SO BROKEN, AND YOU’RE SO BEAUTIFUL A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY BELL (ERASURE) Andy Bell answered an ad in Melody Maker placed there by Vince Clarke. Clarke had experienced considerable success, first with Depeche Mode and then with Yazoo. He [...]
MYSTERY ROMANCE ELECTRIC LOVE CURRENT RECORDS Mystery Romance released their debut album, Human Sexuality, in 1989 and did extremely well with that album. Since then, the band has split and reformed, with the core of the band being the duo Mike [...]
PHIL MANZANERA & ANDY MACKAY AM.PM SOHO LIVE EXPRESSION/BFD/THE ORCHARD When Phil Manzanera and Andy MacKay came together in 2023 and put together the brilliant AM.PM album, no one thought that they would perform live in this configuration, [...]
LET’S TAKE THIS SOMEWHERE ELSE A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY MACKAY London, 1972. It was two years since The Beatles split, Bob Dylan had turned to country (sort of) and the music world was waiting for something new. When Roxy Music debuted with [...]
CHAMELEONS ARCTIC MOON METROPOLIS RECORDS A new album by Chameleons is big news. It has been 24 years since their last studio album, 2001’s Why Call It Anything, and although they have toured a great deal in the past quarter century, their [...]
