Title: The Solid Book of Rock Label: Demon After a fallow period in the heavy metal band’s history, the period from 1991 to 2009 saw a resurgence and a gradual turn…
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Title: Live at German Television: The Musikladen Concert 1981 Label: Sireena Lead by supreme frontman, Fee Waybill (former roadie for the band during its earlier incarnation, the Beans), The Tubes were…
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Title: Slade Alive! Label: Union Square The thing about Slade is that the band was around for a long, long time before it started producing those glam rock-inspired hits in the…
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Title: Truth: The Colombia Recordings 1969-1970 Label: Esoteric The band were formed by the vocals and sax work of Rick Canoff with the vocals, guitar and organ from Fred Glickstein. Back…
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Title: Fanfare Label: BMG A fascinating box set and no mistake with luxury stamped all over it, Fanfare remasters all 11 ELP albums including Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Pictures at an…
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Rock Review VinylZweistein: The Weird, Wonderful and Slightly Strange Story of an Early-Life Crisis
Title: Trip Flipout Meditation Label: Wah Wah I’ve seen some things in my time…but this? The album itself is a legend of krautrock (even though it really isn’t krautrock at all)…
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Title: Misplaced Childhood (Deluxe Edition) Label: Parlophone Recorded at Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin, Germany during 1985, this concept piece is formed from two pieces of music focusing lead singer Fish’s own…
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Title: Platinum Tips + Ice Cream Label: Domino An underground rock group spouting a raw mixture of punk and noise and metal but with smatterings of jazz and other genres that…
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Title: Gary Crowley’s Punk And New Wave Label: Demon Crowley has worked under many titles: DJ, NME scribbler, TV presenter and more. Now he has collected 77 tracks of a rare…
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Title: Anthology 2 Label: Rhino Howe returns with a second Anthology collection that spans three discs and connects Howe with the likes of Yes, Asia, Oliver Wakeman and Paul Sutin This…
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Black Moon/In The Hot Seat BMG Released in 1992, Black Moon saw the prog trio return after around 14 years away from the studio. This album represented a stripped sound with…
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Title: Potlach/Message From a Drum/Cycles Label: Floating World A rock band from LA, the more you look at their work, the more you look at this double disc CD, the more…
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Title: If You Loved Me Label: Ace She had a massive hit on RCA with a soulful original that was speeded up and doo-wop tweaked called I Will Follow Him under…
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Title: Mr. Bass Man, The Acetates Label: Richard Weize Archives He was a singer and a song-writer but also a musical director and producer. A man of many parts and talents.…
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Title: A Sting in the Tale Woodstock had a lot to answer for. If it wasn’t for the film of that music festival (the only piece of the entire event that…
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Title: The Singles Label: Mute This triple vinyl multi-gatefold edition features all of the band’s singles (some fascinating, some very silly indeed, some rare but all worthy). In fact, it collects…
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Title: Third Eye Blind Label: Rhino Taking the name from the metaphysical concept of a person’s mind’s eye, the music here is a lighter version of the grunge genre that this…
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Title: …Est Mort, Vive Gong Label: Tiger Bay …or, of course, Gong is Dead, Long Live Gong. Originally released in 1977 in France on the Tapioca label with different art, this…
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Title: Tres Hombres Label: Warner Bros A blues rock trio from Texas. Already sound quintessentially American, don’t they? This rock is greasy and dirty and leery and growly and packed –…
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Title: Gush Label: Stolen Body They are often described as a new drone-rock band from Buenos Aires but I’m not sure that I’d agree…based upon this new album at any rate.…
