Tom Ciurczak 2026 When it all goes south, one’s spirit gets to rock and roll away the stone weighing on the soul of man. Although this Los Angeleno may not project an air of a conceptual artist, a com...

Cymbalick Music 2026 Golden era of electronica is revitalized on an array of evocative pieces from a renowned harvester of sonic details. The pursuers of the swath Tim Morse has been cutting for more ...

As far as modern takes on classic rock go, there are ensembles that embrace the idiom without forays into pastiche while retaining all the panache their heroes from the past deployed, and that’s the w...

It’s never a good thing when a new edition of a classic album expands a previous reissue, and fans who already shelled out for a smattering of extra material have to buy the same stuff and then some, ...

Capitol 1973 / Think Like A Key 2026 Pomp, circumstance, romance and satire: one sonic wizard’s double-barreled attempt at turning into an artist in his own right. Quite a few of British producers who...

Never one to blow my own trumpet, I still feel a tad stoke by the news that four of the songs I co-penned, as a lyricist, with , the leader of MAD PAINTER, who preserved them from posterity, will be …...

Eight years form a huge gap in an artist’s discography, especially when the artist in question is a septuagenarian, yet it makes their new album an event of sorts. Not that Steve Ellis is touting his ...

7D Media 2026 Changes can be strange and unnerving, yet intrepid New Yorker and her coterie ready to embrace perpetual challenges It may be a requirement for this musician’s chosen genre, prog rock, t...

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BHP 2026 Fighting fire with ire and nuance, Floridian performer calls his friends and family for another flaming communion. Flamboyance may play a major part in what many a guitarist does, yet Brian T...

MoonJune 2026 Righting the wrongs of the past, blistering performances from the States find jazz-proggers at the top of their game. Ardently revered yet criminally underrated, BRAND X arrived on the f...

When THE PRETTY THINGS transitioned from their original rhythm-and-blues to fanciful psychedelia of “S. F. Sorrow” in the late ’60s and then heavy glam of “Silk Torpedo” in the following decade, they ...

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By 1976, Billy Joel was a star; in 1976, he surpassed that status. “New York State Of Mind” may have never been released as a single, but this number gave a mighty heft to the “Turnstiles” album it ar...

Fran Ashcroft 2026 Devil in the details and the details are divine: British producer takes his understated melodies to dark altars. Fifty years before Fran Ashcroft crafted his third solo offering, a ...

It doesn’t happen too often – but it does happen. All of YES members issued solo platters back in 1975-1976, and then everyone in KISS put out their eponymous individual debuts in 1978, but none of th...

Fernando Perdomo 2026 Taking to the stage in search of heavenly bliss, tireless explorer of the skies seizes the day and finds peace of mind. One may safely assume that planned this chapter of his cel...

Chris Clark 2026 Taking the bull by the horns but not forgetting to pay the bills and count the cost, new master of Americana removes his Zorro mask. Since most of the outlaws have passed to the great...

Inexplicably, and unfairly, less celebrated than his colleague Bert Jansch, John Renbourn‘s career was every bit as interesting, and when the famously acoustic guitarist plugged in and increased the r...

Think Like A Key 2026 Plucked from obscurity and brought alive, an utterly entertaining history lesson from young mavens of theatrical rock. There are many manners in which ‘s conceptualism has been m...

For a band who put out only four albums back in the ’70s, the legend of UNICORN is still going strong, the quartet’s platters, like the David Gilmour-produced from 1976 reissued time and again, and ar...

Talking Elephant 2026 Scoring a hat-trick and tipping their hats to legends of yore, veterans of British folk rock reach for the ultimate liberty of expression. It’s easy to be a cynic and suggest one...

Given the scarcity of Lee Ritenour’s official concert releases, each time the jazz guitar giant issues a stage report, fans have a reason for festivities. So while it would have been great to see an a...

Cocomack 2026 Unplugged but exquisitely robust set from the most modest, if influential, axeman of British classic rock. For all the electric brilliance he demonstrated in BLOSSOM TOES and FAMILY, ‘s ...

When Mick Ralphs, a founding member of BAD COMPANY, had a stroke, it was mere days after he graced the stage with the band in England’s capital, at the O2 Arena on October 29th. That night the veteran...

Vertigo 1970 / Think Like A Key 2026 Éire legends change their charge and add riffs to the fire, with a teenage guitar hero of the future checking in. Remembered today for all the not-wrong-yet-tangen...

One of the greatest American songwriters, whose pieces – such as “Wichita Lineman” and “MacArthur Park” – have long become part of the global musical vernacular, Jimmy Webb may have released only thir...

Drummers’ communions are rarely special – unless the players are extraordinary and bent on experimentation. Such was the case with gatherings in former KING CRIMSON skin-hitter Michael Giles‘s studio,...

One of those rare groups whose each member played a major creative role – not only playing but also writing and stepping up to the microphone to sing lead vocals – 10CC were long overdue for a deeper ...

Four studio albums in fifty years may not seem like a great work rate for a rock band who never officially broke up, even briefly, but that’s what makes every ZEBRA record count. Still going as the or...

Fernando Perdomo 2026 A thin line between sentimental treasure and sensual pleasure: another chapter in the coastal dweller’s saga locates a pot of gold in the process, as opposed to the finale, of hi...

While many other prog-prone artists prefer to take their time working on a particular project, has always been quite prolific, which doesn’t impinge on the quality of his work. So even though it’s been a little more than six months … Continue reading →

Taganga Sounds 2026 Laying her soul on the line to cleanse it of grief, Floridian chanteuse finds a way back home. Long gaps in discography do a disservice to artists who try to define their identity ...

To call a voluble person would be a severe underestimation: when he speaks, he cannot be stopped – and it’s for the better, because the tales the veteran tells during his various outings, including li...

Think Like A Key 2026 Harnessing their escapism, English pursuers of fusion pleasures up their ante, tone down their antics and cast their eyes across the ocean. Album titles rarely are as on-the-mone...

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Sometimes it pays to abandon a prominent band and strike out on your own – even if the payment isn’t exactly financial. Ask, for instance, , who left WISHBONE ASH a little less than ten years ago to d...

There have been quite a few DEEP PURPLE tribute albums released over the last decades, but not enough for a band of such enormous influence, and most of those records underperformed anyway. This may c...

While many ensembles with prog intent bank on pseudo-intellectual approach and bombastic expression, HELD BY TREES have been seeking divinity in details from their very beginnings, although minimalism...

May 2013 This artist’s name makes a very fiber of British popular music. From pioneering English rock ‘n’ roll with THE OUTLAWS and sculpting heavy prog with QUATERMASS through adding his booming humo...

There’s been a few tomes about Rory Gallagher over the years, yet all of those told the great late artist’s story from the outside, with a rare insight providing a glimpse of who he really was. That’s...

Fifty-five years further on up the road from his debut “Himself” that established Gilbert O’Sullivan as one of the eminent singer-songwriters to ever emerge from the Emerald Isle, the Irish veteran’s ...

Given the popularity of the THIN LIZZY reissue programme, it was only a matter of time before the band mastermind’s solo material would receive a similar deluxe treatment, and indeed, October 30th wil...

August 2026 Most artists who start out as singer-songwriters stay within this troubadour niche even if they famously turn electric – but Claire Hamill is different from most musicians who fall into th...

Antone Music 2026 Grizzled Irish musicians raid American vaults for not-too-obvious rhythm-and-blues treasures to give them additional, Donegal value. There are two ways to define someone’s artistic i...

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One may argue the point, yet it was between 1970 and 1974 that SOFT MACHINE became the force everybody associates the ensemble with. This is why there are plenty of concert recordings made between the...

With age, some artists lose the ability to surprise their listener, while others don’t, and Bruce Cockburn belongs to the latter category. While his 2023 album “O Sun O Moon” marked the veteran’s retu...