Edgar Broughton Band – ‘Gone Blue – The BBC Sessions’ (2024)
Prefer a voyage to a mere excursion? This trip is for you. It might surprise that a best-seller of EMI’s Harvest label, dedicated to alternative not mainstream music,...
Brian R. Banks
Snafu – ‘You Know It Ain’t Easy’ (2024)
The inaugural comprehensive anthology of the acclaimed early 70s British rock band, featuring Micky Moody before his Whitesnake days and former Freedom vocalist Bobby Harrison. When bands gather...
Dando Shaft – ‘Shadows Across The Moon’
There aren’t many bands whose birthplace might, idiomatically, seem like an embargo from a period’s genre. Not always in this case either, but often. They were never (officially)...
Stray – ‘About Time’ (2024)
Described as the first new album for 13 years (since Valhalla) as well as maybe the best by the legendary ‘70s quartet Stray, that overlooks their songwriting guitarist/vocalist...
‘Heartwork’ by Medicine Head | From a Studio of the Heart
'Heartwork' is the latest album by Medicine Head. It’s often said that environment plays a key role in shaping our lives, but if there’s any truth in that...
Les Cousins – ‘The Soundtrack of Soho’s Legendary Folk & Blues Club’
One of the venues that helped to midwife the folk and blues booms of the 1960s was located at 49 Greek Street in the bohemian Soho area of...
Edgar Broughton – ‘Break The Dark’ (2023)
Rather than taking an easy path that usually results in manipulation by those around them, for artists with "something to say" the creative life is rarely a bed...
Hawkwind – ‘Space Ritual 50th Anniversary’ (2023)
It’s hard to believe that the hardy genre of Space Rock first took off fifty years ago, as anniversary pods of Hawkwind’s classic live double 'Space Ritual' from...
Deviation Street: High Times In Ladbroke Grove – 1967-1975
For the first time we’re living in a cultural age when last or even "best of" selections are somehow defining or equal to past classics, why else bandy...
Catching Up With Carol Grimes, Whose Singing Career Started In The Sixties
Carol Grimes is a British singer and songwriter that joined the band Delivery in 1969 and recorded one album before departing for a solo career. Her debut solo...