Posted September 21, 2010 at 12:05 pm | 2 comments
Remarkable virtuosity intertwines with a firestorm of ferocity in this astounding self titled debut album from four rock titans, blues guitar virtuoso and wizard Joe Bonamassa, the iconic Glenn Hughes who lended his searing vocals and thundering bass to the likes of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, Jason Bonham, Led Zeppelin’s drumming heir apparent to his legendary father John, and Dream Theater keyboardist Derek Sherinian.
Posted in: Modern Rock, Reviews, Rock Reviews
Posted September 20, 2010 at 11:00 pm | 4 comments
For today’s hard rock fans, the release of Black Country Communion has been a greatly anticipated supergroup event. And now that the self-titled CD is about to drop (Sept. 21), they’ll finally get to hear the assortment of solid recordings from this melting pot of influences.
Posted in: Reviews, Rock, Rock Reviews
Posted August 31, 2010 at 6:05 am | 4 comments
It’s always a welcome event, when the very musically gifted and multi-talented sisters, Ann and Nancy Wilson, better known as Heart, release new music, and what a sparkling album this is. So much so, that one feels like rolling out a red velvet carpet, for these First Ladies and Goddesses of Rock.
Posted in: Classic Rock, Reviews, Rock Reviews
Posted August 21, 2010 at 7:00 am | 2 comments
Jerry Cantrell spent more time in the studio working on the new Alice in Chains record than he ever has on any of the group’s other albums. Part of it had to do with finding the right groove.
Posted in: Modern Rock, Reviews, Rock Reviews
Posted August 21, 2010 at 7:00 am | No comments
The Mission UK has unfairly – to my mind – been tossed into the Goth-rock category from Day One, and thus dismissed by people who never thought to give their extremely strong and diverse rock albums a spin
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Posted August 21, 2010 at 7:00 am | 4 comments
No other band is so closely identified with a single musical genre as Yes is with progressive rock. Beloved and belittled, admired and abhorred, Yes has been everything that music listeners love and music critics hate.
Posted in: Classic Rock, Reviews, Rock Reviews
Posted August 21, 2010 at 7:00 am | 2 comments
Steve Howe and Chris Squire sit in a glass-walled room high about New York’s Times Square, looking down on the spire that is home in the infamous New Year’s Eve hall. It is a fitting place to talk about the once and future Yes as the band contemplates 1997 in the wake of the release of Keys to Ascension. It is also a bit disconcerting to have them in the same room: Squire and Howe have not recorded together since Drama, which was released more than 15 years ago.
Posted in: Classic Rock, Reviews, Rock Reviews
Posted August 21, 2010 at 7:00 am | 2 comments
Sonic Youth are not noted for their musical subtlety, especially when it comes to guitar playing. Yes, occasionally the band does sound like an overdriven 747 during a test run
Posted in: Modern Rock, Reviews, Rock Reviews
Posted July 16, 2010 at 7:59 am | No comments
It isn’t often that I come across an album that’s so good I have to listen to it multiple times in a row. When I sat down to check out Devi’s album Get Free I found myself doing just that
Posted in: Indie Rock-Pop, Reviews, Rock Reviews
Posted July 8, 2010 at 6:59 am | One comment
Dubbed the “anti-Oliver Stone” documentary, in reference to the controversial movie staring Val Kilmer as troubled lead singer Jim Morrison, Tom Dicillo’s documentary When You’re Strange aims to tell the “real” story behind the meteoric rise and tragic end to the ’60s rock band The Doors. The story that photographers, cameramen and interviewers captured in real time as the band redefined the rock genre and encapsulated what it meant to be a true Rock Star in the 1960s.
Posted in: DVD Reviews, Guitar Films, Reviews, Rock Reviews