Haunted Shed is debuting their first album Faltering Light, but singer/songwriter Etienne De Rocher is no stranger to the music scene. After a brief hiatus and shift from San Francisco’s West Coast he moved to Athens, Georgia with wife Maria and their two children where he discovered new musical influences culminating in a new band and […]
Chris Cornell, who many believe to be the ‘Founding Father of Grunge’, self-recorded a fifth and final solo album in 2016. And with a suggestive term such as Vol.1 hanging off the album’s title, could there be another down the road?
Opening track Broken Goods off The Routes newest LP Mesmerised hits you hard and hits you strong with a thundering, reverb-soaked drum groove followed shortly after by a gnarly guitar riff, bass and scattered vocals dipping hard into garage punk that echo from their turf in Hita City, Japan.
Spare now, a thought, for Be-Bop Deluxe, a hugely talented, widely forgotten band from the 1970s led by Bill Nelson, a man who, at the time, seemed strangely out of time.
Neil Young continues cranking out Archive releases at an astonishing pace ( I think another, titled Young Shakespeare, has just been let loose). But this 4-disc (on vinyl) takes time to get through, so here we are…Neil & The Horse, December, 1990.
Adam Hattaway and the Haunters‘ new album, Woolston,Texas is rock’n’roll wrapped in Americana with an intoxicating rush of soul, romance and high spirits. At its core is songwriter, guitarist and lead singer Adam Hattaway, who sounds like he was raised listening to the King of Celtic Soul, Van Morrison.
Flog off your copies of Self Portrait and New Morning, this 3-disc (CD) set will render those two Dylan releases irrelevant.
Alice Cooper’s Detroit Stories is an enjoyable blast of great and funny Rock’n’Roll with no remorse. Rev Orange Peel tackles the latest from the Grand Guignol of Rock Theatre.
Pop sensations from Brisbane Sheppard have released 15 singles from October 2019. All except one are here on this third album Kaleidoscope Eyes. A smooth shiny vehicle which does have the faint echo of Lucy in the Sky as the short instrumental title track invites everyone in.
Just months after releasing his solo live album, Idiot Prayer, Nick Cave is back, this time with Bad Seed Warren Ellis and an album Cave himself describes as “brutal, but very beautiful”.