Reviews

This is a joke, right? This is the same William Shatner from Star Trek. From listening to this, he can’t sing, and all they do is bring in a bunch of “guest musicians” like Mike Jones, Steve Vai, Rick Wakeman, Al Di Meola, Vince Gill, Dave Koz, etc to guest on a track. The music […]

I am not a Pink Floyd fan, and I know about three songs, but this was some moving music. This is a recording of the band’s 6th album, “Meddle.” Steve Stens and Carmine Appice are on this, too. Some weird music on this I must say. I wasn’t a fan of some songs, and I liked […]

So Matthew Sweet, who had one big hit, “Girlfriend,” decides to get together a bunch of guest musicians (Carmine Appice, Jack White, Graham Bonnett, and more). Let’s do a Beatles tribute. To me, it sounds pleasing to my ears. I don’t know what Beatle fans will think. The lack of Beatle “hit tunes” and many […]

Was not a fan of this at all. This was all that modern rock mixed in with some bits and pieces of nu metal. All that electronic sounds pumping out made me want to run for the toilet. This was like electric rock/metal and not for me at all. If you like Linkin Park, you […]

Fireborn is a German female-fronted hard rock band formerly known as Dislike Silence and Reflections is their first album since changing their name. She has quite a set of pipes and uses them quite well on this. This is a very melody driven band, with plenty of catchy, but metallic hooks as well. There is […]

This a live release from a Motorhead tribute band. They sound fantastic and even the Lemmy bass sound is there. Alan “Boomer” Davey put tribute. The band includes six-string slugger Neil Archer, who has worked with Robert Plant, and skin pounder Gary Bowler, who has played in Motörhead associated band Würzel. The sound is fantastic […]

Oh my fuckin god, is this a fantastic record. I loved these guys in my early teenage years and was sad they didn’t get bigger than they did. They did a recent comeback record that was also great, and this is on par with that release. Great catchy riffs that sucked me in, and melodic […]

Greece’s most prolific rocker is at it again! Stavros delivers album after album with various projects and bands. Super Vintage hears him rock out in riff-rock land. “Guardians Of Tradition” is his sixth album with Super Vintage. The album kicks off with the groovy sleazy blues rocker “Southern Ride”, which leaves off to the Blackfoot-sounding […]

Magic Music – Year: 2021 Country: Sweden Swedish blues rock guitarist Jan Gerfast has been around for quite a few years. He released his first album, “Rollin’ With The Blues,” in 1992, and this is his 9th album (counting the “Electric Power Blues” compilation on Grooveyard Records). The new CD starts lazy with the track […]

I was a huge Pat Travers fan during the “Go For What You Know” live album, “Heat in the Street,” and “Crash and Burn” days. I have not heard music from him in years, and here he returns, and damn if I don’t love this. Pat has always had a blues-based rock n roll sound, […]

This originally came out back in the 70s under another album release name, and now it is being re-released. Humble Pie was a band that was around in the early 70s and onward and even had an MTV hit in the early ’80s, which I remember. This album has a bunch of covers on it, […]

I normally don’t review stuff like this, but David gave it to me, so here goes. There is some soulful singing on this; the tunes are heartfelt and jump out at you big time. This is stuff when you want to cruise in a car, relax with a beer, or curl up with a nice […]

Already in the opening track, “Together We Run,” I start looking through the promo material to see if Journey has changed the lead singer. Arnel doesn’t really sound like he used to! A bit raspier, a bit scarred, which I’ve never heard before. To be honest, I have no complaints about it at all! It […]

This is a nice soulful mix of soft rock and the blues. The singer has a great voice and sings the songs with many soul puns intended. The tunes are just modern well, crafted pop tunes with catchy hooks big time. Plenty of different musicians are on this as well. The guitar playing is great, […]

This is an all-star tribute to bass player Jack Bruce of Cream it rocks.  Besides the great tunes, you get guitar soles by Eric Johnson and Alex Lifeson, so you know this is no joke. Billy Sheehan is on bass too. Sammy Hagar also lends his vocal talents too. So Jack Bruce and Pete Brown […]

Swedish quartet Cirkus Prütz (named after something as unusual as the bass player! Well, there’s gotta be a first, nudge nudge wink wink) now releases their second album, and already the opening numbers make you happy. Highly addictive boogie rock with the diesel tank filled to the brim. The band is fronted by The Quill […]

Last Chance is the new US-based hard rock band featuring singer Frankie Rage, guitarist Dave Baron, bass player Rob Phillips, and drummer Jordan Cannata.“Light The Fire” kicks off the album in an 80-oozing sleaze-oriented vein, with an almost punky vibe to it, a bit like MC5 meets early Skid Row (the US band that is). […]

King’s X has been one of my absolute favorite bands ever since I first heard “Gretchen Goes To Nebraska.” I shall, however, admit that there are a few albums I still haven’t fully taken to heart, “Welcome Home Mr. Bulbus” and “Manic Moonlight,” but I haven’t written them off. There have happened way more on […]

This is the band’s 7th album and is full of musicians you might have heard of over the years, including Simon Phillips and Ronnie Romero; in addition to Simon Phillips and Ronnie Romero, the album also includes Carl Sentance (Nazareth), Biser Ivanov on guitar, Ivo Stefanov on keyboards, Slavin Slavchev, Lina Nicole, and Borislav Mudolov-Kosatkata […]

Andy is a former Hanoi Rocks guitar player and what we have here is his latest release. I wasn’t thrilled with the album’s single, a cover tune by the band Squeeze called “Take Me I’m Yours. Nothing catchy about it, and it bored me rather quickly. The songs are all 3 minutes to 4 blasts […]

This band features ex-members of the band Ghost and this has nothing to do with metal at all. This is some techno dance crap one would expect to hear in a dance club. If you’re looking for metal or rock, you won’t find it on this, I assure you. The song “Perfect Body Machine” sounded […]

No doubt a Rock released in every sense of the word! Hell, Founded by late Motorhead Guitarist Wurzel.’ We have the follow-up to their 2018 debut; It soars with licks and talent. Hitman is one of the strong titles from the album, which features Iron Maiden Guitarist Dennis Stratton’s contribution. Polish, tight and precise. ‘Cat’s Eye Night’ […]

How about some pussy, Nashville Pussy that is! Here they are in their best environment, Live! Loud, ear-blasting in your face, shit-Stompin Guitar-driven Punkish Hard Rock with plenty of bite and grit! Opening with their take on AC/DC’s ‘Kicked In The Teeth’ is An excellent opener, for sure! If this doesn’t get you off your […]

Chuck Wright (a bass player for Quiet Riot and who played alongside Slash, Alice Cooper, and others), has released a release to help out the victims of Ukraine. Let me start by saying that it is for a great cause. This incredible record will take you on many rides, and I love the vocals on […]

Boy, this takes me back to yesteryear, driving around inmy 1960 Impala Chevy with Cactus in my 8-track CraigPowerplay playing proudly and loudly! Man, this is excellent Hardrock, Boogie Awesome trio style jam stuff; it reminds me of some early “Cream”  (extended jam live tracks). The musicianship is top-notch and kickass! The production is raw […]

Cowpunk mayhem here! Loud, Raw in the vein of Motorhead and ’90s ‘Delta Rebels’, and even traces of Nashville’s’Royal Court Of China,’ I Love It! In your face, hard rock with different flavors added to the mix, Catchy well, crafted tunes, 14 tracks, including the aggressive “What kind of god.” The rockin “2 Legged Dope.” […]

DOWNRIGHT MALICE/Mechanica Temporis (Self Released) This is a groovy nu/jump metal band and very generic. Stuff that has been done to death and then some. Brutal vocals mixed in with clean vocals are a style I can’t stand. Not thrashing metal, as I’ve read. Another run-of-the-mill band that is doing nothing different. Think a lousy […]

SKOLD/Dead God (Cleopatra Records) Apparently, this is a lost long album now seeing the light of day. It is industrial metal not far off from NIN and throws in Marilyn Manson. The music on this is heavy, groovy stuff with industrial overtones. Keyboard parts at times too. Pretty cool and is quite memorable and worth […]

I’ve always had a soft spot for Australian hard rock ever since I heard Stevie Wright’s “Evie” back in 1974. Soon enough, AC/DC popped up, and on it went with bands like Rabbitt, Taste, and later on excellent bands like Tracer, Electric Mary, Wolfmother, and Twenty Two Hundred. Add a heavy Roller to this lot. […]

Guitarist extraordinaire Jimmy Ryan is finally following up his excellent “21st Century Riffology” CD of 2017. Jimmy is an outstanding player, mixing his blues-oriented with classic rock in the vein of Wishbone Ash, which was the first thing I came to think of when listening to the opening track “Starlord.” Killer melodic, instrumental, melodic guitar […]