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Album review: GRAND – Guilty Pleasure
17+ hour, 47+ min ago (686+ words) Share the post "Album review: GRAND – Guilty Pleasure" Frontiers [Release date: 21.08.26] We asked 3 separate AI sources… Gemini, Co pilot and Claude: “describe the melodic rock / AOR music of the eighties, specifically 1984”. We’ll publish the results sometime. Then we took this…...
Album review: SIMON KEMPSTON – A Poet Or A Painter
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (1043+ words) Share the post "Album review: SIMON KEMPSTON – A Poet Or A Painter" In a world of instant gratification, downloads and self hype, it’s almost a shock to come across a well crafted, singer song-writer and folk inspired album, with lyrical…...
Album review: THE DEVIL WEARS NADA – In Lust We Thrust
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (552+ words) Share the post "Album review: THE DEVIL WEARS NADA – In Lust We Thrust" Eonian Records [Release date 10.07.26] This album is a throwback to the classic sounds of 1980s melodic rock and even the opening piece is a bit of retro radio,…...
Album review: JACK BROWNING – Painted Skies
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (680+ words) Share the post "Album review: JACK BROWNING – Painted Skies" He is full of great lines though, like Champagne Taste, the second track – I got champagne taste but lemonade money – what a fabulous way of saying you live above your means....
Gig review: MALMO MELODIC- Plan B, Malmo, Sweden, 24-26 July 2026
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (1795+ words) Share the post "Gig review: MALMO MELODIC- Plan B, Malmo, Sweden, 24-26 July 2026" It is also one of the most accessible festivals I have ever attended in terms of breaking down the barriers between artists and fans of the genre together....
Album review: TEN YEARS AFTER – Cricklewood Green
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (654+ words) Share the post "Album review: TEN YEARS AFTER – Cricklewood Green" This expanded reissue opens disc 1 with the original album, and a few bonuses. Opener Sugar On The Road showcases the band’s rhythm ’n’ blues roots, a nod to the likes…...
Gig review: MAID OF STONE FESTIVAL- Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent, 17-19 July 2026
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (1844+ words) Share the post "Gig review: MAID OF STONE FESTIVAL- Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent, 17-19 July 2026" My first trip was for a day in 2024, but I took the plunge for the whole weekend last year and had such a brilliant time that…...
Album review: PAULIE BOY BLUES – Back from the Dead Live in Brooklyn New York
2+ week, 3+ day ago (612+ words) Share the post "Album review: PAULIE BOY BLUES – Back from the Dead Live in Brooklyn New York" The comparisons are obvious, a young black guy playing a white Strat, (albeit right handed), dressed in psychedelic clothing backed by two white…...
Album review: ICONIC II
2+ week, 4+ day ago (767+ words) Share the post "Album review: ICONIC II" Frontiers Music [Release date: 31.07.26] Long haired, MTV look rock bands are well and truly back in fashion, in an under the mainstream radar kind of way. Cue Iconic. Recruited from headline bands Stryper,…...
Album review: OSIRIS – Within A Dream
2+ week, 4+ day ago (511+ words) Share the post "Album review: OSIRIS – Within A Dream" Escape Music [Release date 14.08.26] Joining the brothers Alsadeqi in Osiris are Nader Sharif (keyboards, classical arrangements), Abdul Razzaq Arian (keyboards), Khalid Shamlan (piano, keyboards, vocals), Hadi Saeed (bass) and Ahmed Rawanbakhsh…...