As a fan of live music, it’s a particular thrill for me any time an artist releases a live album from a show which I attended. It offers the chance to both savour a memory and hear the detail that…
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The first time I heard Erie, Pennsylvania band Kitchen Sink was a couple of months ago when the song Kitchen Suite came on the radio. Right away, I was captivated. When the opportunity to review their debut album, Clandestiny, arose,…
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Sad Serenity’s The Grand Enigma is another in a long line of Covid lock-down projects that we have seen over the past year. Hatched by multi-instrumentalist Marcell Kaemmerer, this is the first project from the German-born former school teacher (music…
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Reviewing a band you have followed and enjoyed from the beginning is always a dicey proposition. You can’t help but wonder if this is the one where it all falls apart, or has the band forged ahead to reach new…
View More Kinetic Element – Chasing the Lesser Light
The first, self-titled Angel album, released in 1975, introduced a band that straddled the worlds of prog and glam, leaning heavily on the former musically and the latter in sartorial style. The first two albums (which were produced by Derek…
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One of the very first singles I bought as a music-obsessed child was Blues Image’s Ride Captain Ride in 1970. The song was all over the radio at the time and, as one of the first popular songs to feature…
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Ice Age was formed on Long Island, New York in 1991 by college buddies Josh Pincus (vocals & keys) and Jimmy Pappas (guitars). Originally an instrumental outfit, with the addition of drummer Hal Aponte and bassist Arron DiCesare, the band…
View More Ice Age – Waves Of Loss And Power
The 1960s were a rather bizarre time to live through. The war in Viet Nam dominated the headlines, but a growing awareness of impending ecological disaster was never far behind. Sit-ins and love-ins competed with student protests and Jesus Freaks…
View More Various Artists – Too Much Sun Will Burn: The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967, Volume 2
What the ???? Yes, you read that right. Cherry Red Records, in association with Robinsongs, has compiled some of the more outstanding dance mixes from the golden age of disco into one glorious, joyous, can’t-stop-moving compilation that will leave you…
View More Various Artists – The Greatest Soul, Funk & Disco 12” Singles of the ‘70s & ‘80s
Between 1976 and 1979, the Alan Parsons Project were a staple of FM radio here in the States. With the release of The Turn of A Friendly Card in 1980, the band became a hit-making juggernaut. An interesting proposition for…
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