VARIOUS ARTISTS PURPLE STORM: A TRIBUTE TO DEEP PURPLE CLEOPATRA RECORDS Purple Storm—A Tribute To Deep Purple is not the first tribute album to Deep Purple, but it is a very interesting one. Members of various bands have come together to pay [...]
JAH WOBBLE & THE INVADERS OF THE HEART THE USUAL SUSPECTS DIMPLE DISCS Dimple Discs is celebrating the reissue of The Usual Suspects, by Jah Wobble & the Invaders of the Heart. This is an expansive project driven by Wobble, the post-punk [...]
JOE GLASS SNAKEWARDS K RECORDS/PERENNIAL RECORDS Armed with just a Telecaster, Joe Glass is on a mission to keep rock ‘n’ roll alive, and he succeeds. Based in Chicago, Glass has been firmly established as a touring musician. With Snakewards, [...]
ZEBRA ZEBRA V FLATIRON RECORDINGS Like U2, Zebra has been a band, with the original members, for a very long time. Since 1975 to be exact. Unlike U2, it has been 23 years since Zebra released a studio album. Since 2003’s Zebra IV, the band has [...]
U2 CARNAVAL DE LUZ ISLAND RECORDS Carnaval De Luz (which translates from Spanish and Portuguese to “Carnival of Light” in English) is U2’s 16th studio album, and their first since 2023’s Songs Of Surrender. Earlier in 2026, U2 surprised [...]
APE HANGERS APE HANGERS II RUM BAR RECORDS Ape Hangers come bursting out of the gate with their explosive sophomore release, Ape Hangers II. Perhaps best know for their appeared on the soundtrack for 1995’s Empire Records with the track, “I [...]
MIDGE URE CHAPTERS: THE BEST OF CHRYSALIS RECORDS Earlier this year, Midge Ure released a fantastic new studio album, A Man Of Two Worlds. For Chapters: The Best Of, Ure looks back at his early solo days with Chrysalis records. Following the [...]
MENAHAN STREET BAND ILLUSIONS DIAMOND WEST RECORDS Nearly 20 years deep, the Menahan Street Band just keep getting better and better. While best known as the backing band behind recent soul legends like Charles Bradley, the extended Menahan [...]
