Guitarist, songwriter and composer Alan Dweck caught the music bug young, writing his first song aged nine. He cites Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour as a chief early influence on a life and career which has seen Dweck absorb cultural influences…
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After eighteen months of being locked down in his home studio, Paul Carrack has emerged with his first new album for three years and is Good and Ready to get back on stage in front of his fans. His new…
View More Paul Carrack – Interview plus review of One On One
Warning #1: There’s no Prog here! If you’re expecting IQ or Marillion then you will be disappointed. This is about modern, progressive Rock. And Jazz. And Metal. Probably. Warning #2: The deliberate and seemingly incorrect use of upper and LoweR…
View More art against agony – Reincarnation Suite [plus interview with Stefan Huth]
Tony Kaye recently announced the release of his debut solo album, End of Innocence, on 10th September 2021 via Spirit of Unicorn Music (distributed through Cherry Red Records) to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Tony spoke with Geoff Ford…
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Yes release their new album The Quest on 1st October on InsideOut Music, the first studio release with their current line-up and the first with Steve Howe producing from his project HQ: Curtis Schwartz’s studio at Ardingly, West Sussex. It…
View More Jon Davison – Yes
With the recent release of the second album from The Vicious Head Society, Extinction Level Event, TPA’s Nick Hudson talks to band mastermind Graham Keane about the arduous process of putting the album together… Just to get this out of…
View More Graham Keane – The Vicious Head Society
Over the last decade and more, Thumpermonkey have produced a string of exhilarating albums and become a fantastically exciting live band in the process. This week, the band’s singer, guitarist and writer Michael Woodman releases the first music under his…
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After my review of Confusion Field’s Disconnection Complete, main-man Tomi Kankainen contacted me to thank me, and let me know that he was unfamiliar with Riverside before hearing about similarities with his music. I offered an interview to set the…
View More Tomi Kankainen – Confusion Field
Don’t you just love it when artists take notes that don’t belong in a key and create passing dissonance? I like drums, gritty guitar, distorted bass, quiet bits with piano, soft harmonised backing vocals against a building riff. I like…
View More Blacklist – Superpredator EP / Saul Blease Interview
‘Live in 2020’ – three words we won’t be reading very often. For most musicians, 2020 was the year from hell, when Covid killed touring, their most lucrative source of income now that CDs no longer make any money. A…
View More Bryan Beller – The Aristocrats