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Review – SiX BY SiX – s/t – by John Wenlock-Smith
This album is a new collaboration between Saga guitarist Ian Crichton, Saxon drummer Nigel Glockler and Robert Berry (ex Keith Emerson & Carl Palmer’s 3 project), it combines classic rock elements alongside more progressive ones. The good news is that it sounds glorious and there are plans to reconvene for a further excursion next year.…
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King’s X launch All God’s Children; third track taken from the bands forthcoming album Three Sides of One?
The legendary King’s X, comprised of dUg Pinnick, Ty Tabor & Jerry Gaskill, recently announced the release of their 13th studio album Three Sides of One on the 2nd September 2022, representing their first new music in 14 years. Today the band are pleased to launch the video for, All God’s Children, the third track taken from the…
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Review – Keef Hartley Band: Sinnin? For You – The Albums 1969-1973 – by John Wenlock-Smith
This is a new 7 disc set that chronicles the illustrious career of Preston born drummer Keef Hartley and contains his entire output of seven albums recorded for Decca’s Deram label in the late 1960’s and early 70’s. Keef Hartley was a fine drummer, in fact he was closely associated with John Mayall’s Blues Breakers…
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LA’s Enigmatic DRAAGYN Takes Flight On Incendiary New EP “Bent Rib”
Los Angeles’ enigmatic songwriter and multi-instrumentalist DRAAGYN, known for her critically lauded, genre-bending blackened metal and cryptic persona, has revealed her first new music in 2 years in the form of a new EP titled “Bent Rib.” Out now, the 3 song record runs the gamut of musical design, incorporating experimental elements of black, doom…
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Review – Ryo Okumoto – The Myth Of The Mostrophus – by John Wenlock-Smith
This new release from Spock’s Beard keyboardist Ryo Okumoto is a most welcome offering, especially when it is as fine as this is. Furthermore, not only is it a very fine album but it is also a wonderful collaboration with Michael Whiteman of I Am The Manic Whale, who helped out lyrically with these songs and…
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Review – Cosmograf – Heroic Materials
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Review – Marcelo Maccagnan – Night tales
Marcelo Maccagnan has established himself as a bandleader and sideman on the New York scene. Growing up playing a whole range of styles – rock, electronic music, Brazilian, pop – he took the opportunity of studying at Berklee in Boston to immerse himself fully in the jazz genre. The result is a truly authentic fusion…
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Review – Dim Gray – Firmament
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest. – Henry David Thoreau. Norwegian art-rock trio Dim Gray burst onto the scene with their debut release ‘Flown’ in 2020. Described as “Elegiac and beautifully dense post-prog from…
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Review – Shriekback – 1000 Books
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books? – Andrei Tarkovsky “1000 Books is Shriekback’s 16th album and boldly marks the band’s 40th birthday. Big numbers for a big record – this is Shriekback in depth and detail, nine songs by turns majestic, elegiac, confrontational and just plain funky. The…
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Review – The Wynntown Marshals – Big Ideas
Music can take you to many places, in reality and in your mind. My musical journey has led me to discover many new artists and fall in love with styles of music that I just never would have thought would have appealed to me. Take The Wynntown Marshals, this highly accomplished Scottish Americana band, proclaimed…