Jerry Leger The Time Flew By Latent Recordings “There’s no rest for the wicked,” or so the saying goes. If that is true, singer-songwriter Jerry Leger is a ‘wicked’ man, indeed! Currently touring Europe and the UK, the Toronto-based roots rocker [...]
Butch Bastard Las Vegas Salvation Big Cartel Butch Bastard is the pseudonym of Seattle-raised, LA-based singer-songwriter Ian Murray, formerly of Poor Moon, and Las Vegas Salvation is his second album. Although he has had some help here, it is [...]
Annie Blackman Bug Father/Daughter Records Being vulnerable and introspective is often one of the qualities many listeners look out for in singer songwriters. The problem can be that sometimes such artists go a bit too far in ‘barring the [...]
Djabe &Steve Hackett Live In Gyor Cherry Red Records This is a very interesting and perhaps perceived as an odd release. Djabe has made its name as a top notch jazz band from Hungary and Steve Hackett, of course, is famous as the guitarist [...]
Glen Matlock Consequences Coming Cooking Vinyl Glen Matlock has had quite a career. He was the original bassist for The Sex Pistols, a member of Rich Kids, s icurrent touring member of Blondie, and his own solo records. Consequences Coming is [...]
The Damned Darkadelic earMUSIC It is hard to believe that The Damned’s debut album, the classic Damned Damned Damned was released 46 years ago and here I am reviewing their new album! Remember, they also have rights to the claim they released [...]
Scott Matthews Restless Lullabies Shedio Records With any process, there has to be a reverse process. Still, a key question remains there, particularly with music, which is the better one for the artist? In the case of singers songwriters, they [...]
Taj Mahal Savoy Stony Plain Records If there ever was a musical archivist (or a few of them) that actually was able to transfer his knowledge into music, then Taj Mahal is certainly one of those. Like Ry Cooder, his buddy from their early (and [...]