The Sword Apocryphon (10th Anniversary Edition) Craft Recordings Bands like The Sword have always confidently found themselves at the forefront of retro-metal. Colouring and successfully merging classic doom metal, 70’s psychedelic [...]
Ringo Starr And His All-Starr Band Live At The Greek Theatre 2019 Rocabella/BFD/Sony After The Beatles split up, all four of The Beatles talked about their love of playing in bands and each one joined bands, Paul McCartney had Wings, George [...]
Jean-Michel Jarre The Concerts In China (40th Anniversary Edition) Sony Music In 1981, Jean-Michel Jarre became the first western artist to tour China. He performed five concerts in Shanghai and Beijing. During the short tour, he recorded the [...]
Selina Martin Time Spent Swimming Independent “Got a hole in my heart/And I can’t fill it up” sings Selina Martin in the opening track, “Tangier” from her new album Time Spent Swimming. The music is electronic and sparse, and her voice comes in [...]
Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith The Perfect Vision: Reworkings Bella Union In 2019, Soundwalk Collective began working with Patti Smith, and over the next two years, the band and Smith would release three brilliant albums. Each of the [...]
Silverstein Arrivals & Departures (15th Anniversary Edition) Craft Recordings Looking back on Silverstein’s Arrivals & Departures, it’s a listening experience met with mixed emotions but one that brought about an evolved [...]
Jimi Hendrix Experience Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969 Legacy Recordings In 1969, Jimi Hendrix was one of the most celebrated musicians in the world. Playing at the Forum in Inglewood, CA in the spring of 1969 with bassist Noel Redding and [...]
The Stone Foxes On The Other Side Symphonic Distribution After nearly six years without a new album, brothers Shannon and Spence Koehler of The Stone Foxes are back, and it was well worth the wait. Their latest LP, On The Other Side, was created [...]
Various Artists Ain’t Nothing But A House Party – 60’s And Early 70’s Club Soul Classics Cherry Red Records It just might be a mistake to name the popularity of 60s and early 70s soul a ‘soul revival.’ The [...]
Various Artists Deep In The Woods: Pastoral Psychedelia & Funky Folk 1968-1975 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red is one of those record labels renowned around the world for their practically immaculate reissue series, particularly when it comes [...]
The Palfreyman Collective The Palfreyman Collective Diteli Media In 2017, David Palfreyman and Nicholas Pegg released the ambitious and brilliant album Decades. Since that album Palfreyman has come up with a new project, The Palfreyman [...]
Loreena McKennitt Under A Winter’s Moon Quinlan Road Loreena McKennitt is no stranger to Christmas/seasonal albums. She has released two studio albums in the past full of Christmas and Holiday cheer. She is also no stranger to recording [...]
Joan Armatrading Live At Asylum Chapel BMG Joan Armatrading came into the consciousness of music lovers in 1972, with her debut album Whatever’s For Us. She was known as a singer-songwriter and her reputation grew throughout the past 50 years. [...]
The Human League The Virgin Years UMC The Human League formed in 1977, at the height of ‘punk’ but they were different. They may have had the ‘punk’ attitude, but with an experimental, electronic sound. The lineup was Phil Oakey (vocals), Martyn [...]
Rising Appalachia Live From New Orleans At Preservation Hall Independent Sisters Chloe and Leah Smith who are the leading lights behind Rising Appalachia, Americana independents that were able to garner quite a following outside the mainstream [...]
Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion (Super Deluxe) UMe Appetite For Destruction remains one of the greatest debut records ever, something that forever established Guns N’ Roses among the greatest rock bands but has left a nearly impossible summit [...]
Quadeca I Didn’t Mean to Haunt You Dead Air Records Working within, or trying to revive, if you will, a genre many consider dead and buried can be quite a serious obstacle for an artist, renowned or not so renowned. Sticking to a concept [...]
Jackson Mico Milas Blu Terra Apollo Records At some point, all that you have done before, all the experience you have gained the way you have evolved as an artist, should come to fruition at some point. Of course, if there is a modicum of talent [...]
Chris Cleverley Broadcast The Secret Verse Independent The times when singer songwriters would limit themselves to a single acoustic instrument and vocals and lyrics that were only talking about their hurt feelings are still here (well, a little [...]
The Police Ghost In The Machine (Vinyl Reissue) Universal Music/Polydor Originally released in 1981, Ghost In The Machine represents The Police in the middle their career. In the late 1970s and early ’80s, a series of successful albums, singles, [...]
Carla dal Forno Come Around Kallista Records Carla dal Forno’s Come Around gives off a storybook feeling, as though you’ve opened a leather bound, gently discoloured by time, fairy tale novel. Instead of images, her whimsical ‘storytelling’ is [...]
Tenci A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing Keeled Scales Whenever you encounter an artist or a band you did not have a chance to hear before, the first thing you do is try and make a comparison – who do they sound like, or to whom you can [...]
PJ Harvey B-Sides, Demos & Rarities Universal Music/Island Records Concealing almost no part of her musical progression, PJ Harvey’s B-Sides, Demos & Rarities provides us with a road map to her as an artist, as well as a person, and [...]
Pholo When The Soul Sleeps Artoffact Records Since the late ‘80s, Russian post punk bands are characterized by nostalgic auras and cold haunting melodies composed by synths textures, guitar riffs, drum machines, and brooding bass lines. Siberian [...]
