You have to hand it to the folks at Cherry Red. No matter the genre, when they do a compilation, you can always expect the unexpected. Electric Junk – Deutsche Rock, Psych And Kosmiche 1970-78 is a journey (literally, as…
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Twenty-two studio albums into their career, Glass Hammer still have the capacity to surprise. While there have been thematic groupings of albums (think Tolkien, Skallagrim, or the Jon Davison years), Glass Hammer have managed to evade being pigeon-holed into a…
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Every once in a while, a song or an artist comes along to capture your fancy in an unexpected way. Such is the case with Brendan Perkins’ latest offering, Stories From The Old Church Lane. Perkins was totally unknown to…
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Don’t be deceived, like I was, by the title of this set from Humble Pie. Rather than a decade long history of the band, which would have been quite welcome, this five disc set is largely the last gasps of…
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The final instalment of Blue Öyster Cult’s September 2022 three night stand at Sony Hall in New York City has arrived, featuring the third album from the band’s long career, Secret Treaties. This is the album that found the band…
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Dearly Beloved: A Prince Songbook, a compilation of Prince covers by a wide variety of artists, proves two things. First, Prince Rogers Nelson was a musical genius (but you already knew that). Second, he was also an underachiever of sorts.…
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Pattern-Seeking Animals have been a rather prolific band. Having released their debut album in 2019, these Spock’s Beard-aligned musicians have developed a sound that is all their own in the ensuing years. Friend Of All Creatures sets out to prove…
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The history of Osibisa goes way back to Ghana in the 1950s, when saxophonist Teddy Osei was a member of a highlife (a fusion of traditional African music with Western jazz) band. He moved to London on a music scholarship…
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Fernando Perdomo never sleeps. Ever. How else do you explain his incredibly prolific output? He is a solo artist with a surfeit of albums under his own name. He is in bands with Dave Kerzner, Carmine Appice and Ruti Celli…
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When Mountain first appeared on the scene in 1969, guitarist Leslie West had already begun to make a name for himself as part of New York area band The Vagrants. The newly formed Mountain even managed to secure a spot…
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