Hawkwind have had a long and varied career ploughing the furrow with their own style of psychedelic space rock. They are probably best known as a great live act so it appears logical that a number of live albums litter…
View More Hawkwind – Coded Languages: Live at Hammersmith Odeon, Nov. 1982
…And I Saw a Boy Looking Up Dreaming of his Future from my Past, from my Past Such poetic words open Riverside’s sixth captivating album, and set the scene perfectly for a dream-like journey of reminiscence and hope. This is…
View More Riverside – Love, Fear and the Time Machine
Procol Harum played a significant role in the early days of progressive rock and A Salty Dog, released in 1969, may not be as well known as contemporary albums from such luminaries as King Crimson, VDGG, Yes and Pink Floyd,…
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Hailing from Moscow and formed by Nikita and Nick Samarin, I Will Kill Chita are so named after a fraternal spat within the band’s ranks. Maybe The Kinks should have been called I Will Kill Dave? This Russian collective play…
View More I Will Kill Chita – Evil Bear Boris
Let’s get one thing straight. America is a big place, right? You’d expect there to be loads and loads of great bands coming from the U.S. – and indeed there are – but not a huge number of them really…
View More echolyn – i heard you listening
As a native of Liverpool, maybe it’s having to spend most of his time upside down in New Zealand that makes Matt Deacon’s brain the way it is. I mean it has to exert undue pressure on the capillaries and…
View More The Bob Lazar Story – Self-Loathing Joe EP
When you’ve been in the music business from before I was even born, you’re pretty much entitled to make the album you want to, and if others are pulled along in its wake, then so be it. This is an…
View More John Lodge – 10,000 Light Years Ago
Starting out as long ago as the start of the century, Paradox One was initially a solo project by Scottish keyboard player and spacerocker Phil Jackson, who over the intervening years became friends with Tim Jones of Census Of Hallucinations…
View More Paradox One – This Fragile Peace
With all of the brilliant new Classic Rock albums and re-issues released in 2015, it has taken me a while to get back to reviewing the newly packaged reissue of Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe from Esoteric Recordings. Yet, after watching…
View More Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe – Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Surprisingly hot on the heels of the last Karda Estra album, Strange Relations, comes another 20 minute EP. In a rather succinct and acoustic 20 minutes The Seas and the Stars chronicles the collision between the Andromeda galaxy and our…
View More Karda Estra – The Seas and the Stars EP