Now up to their fifth album, New Jersey art-rock band 3RDegree are a collective that take on heavy concepts without batting an eyelid. Their previous breakthrough album The Long Division, released in 2012, failed to properly connect with me, mostly…
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Some four years after his first solo album, the highly listenable Defence Mechanisms, nimble-fingered bass player Louis De Mieulle returns with his second offering stars, plants & bugs. Louis is an ex-pat Frenchman living in New York, and from the…
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Transgression is a truly stunning album, displaying the many faceted sides of composer and multi-instrumentalist Theo Travis. An album that effortlessly brings together the best elements from the rock, blues, Canterbury, jazz and progressive jazz fields, resulting in an absorbing…
View More Theo Travis’ Double Talk – Transgression
High on my list of things to do at the recent KC live shows was “Pick up a copy of the 2015 Tour Box”. After much post-gig queueing – with not a little consternation that it might in fact sell…
View More King Crimson – The Elements 2015 Tour Box
As is often the case, something unusual yet exquisitely beautiful is coming out of Nordic climes. It’s most likely to have something to do with the long nights and a diet heavy on fish, but Agent Fresco hail from Iceland…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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