The Rising Tide: The Hope We Die For (2023) Palmerston North deathcore band The Rising Tide had a great 2022, touring for the first time in six years and here we are now with their latest EP which […]

Richard "Piano" Scott: Jambalaya Town (2014) Last year one of my daughters went on a travelling tour of the States with her partner, and of course one of the places they visited was New Orleans. […]

Dave Miller Trio: The Mask-erade is Over (2021) In 2009 Miller released his first album on the Summit label, ‘Rapture’, which featured drummer Bill Belasco and bassist Mario Suraci. Over the last ten […]

UFO: No Heavy Petting [2023 Remaster] (1976) Unless you were a teenager in the UK in the mid to late Seventies I don’t think it is possible to understand just how important UFO were to the hard r […]

UFO: Werewolves Of London (2022) On February 10th 1998 UFO strode out onto the Civic Hall stage in Wolverhampton, and the set was recorded and soon made available as an album. Just […]

Behemoth: In Absentia Dei (2021) Covid saw quite a few bands release streaming events as a way of keeping fans interested while no touring was taking place, as well of course hopefully […]

Bob Mintzer & WDR Big Band Cologne: Soundscapes (2021) Mintzer has been conductor and arranger for WDR Big Band Cologne for six years now, relishing the opportunity to play regularly in an ensemble of 17 […]

Cooper McBean: The Magnolia Sessions (2022) Here we have another from the indispensable series of amazing bluegrass and roots music from Anti Corp, with Cooper McBean the musician to perform under […]

Daria Kulesh: Eve (2023) One of my favourite musical discoveries in recent years has been that of the wonderful singer Daria Kulesh who was born in Russia, has been in the UK for […]

Chasing Titans: Chasing Titans (2022) Here we have the debut EP by Auckland-based metalcore trio Chasing Titans who were formed in 2018 and comprise Adrian Govender (guitar, vocals), […]

Bellowhead: Revival (2014) During lockdown in 2020, the 11 members of Bellowhead first re-connected online to remotely record “New York Girls – At Home”. That led to re-uniting in […]

Joe Wunderle: The Magnolia Sessions (2021) Here we have another album recorded under the magnolia tree in the rear yard of the Anti-Corporate Music/Black Matter Mastering HQ in Nashville, […]

Linda Moylan: The Merchant (2021) Linda Moylan is a London-based, Irish-born singer-songwriter, and this was her second full-length album, released towards the end of 2021 (her third is […]

Pathology: The Everlasting Plague (2021) Death metal merchants Pathology are back with their second album since their rebirth in 2018 when drummer and founder Dave Astor brought back singer Obie […]

The Resonant Rogues: The Magnolia Sessions (2021) The next in this wonderful and important series of albums is by The Resonant Rogues, whose dark Appalachian folk paints a picture of their lives in the […]

Alison Krauss and Robert Plant: Raise the Roof (2021) Some 14 years on from the somewhat unusual pairing of Plant with American bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss which saw the release of ‘Raising S […]

Uncle Watson's Widow: Hindsight (2021) Uncle Watson’s Widow is a heavy blues rock band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is comprised of Jon Epstein (bass, guitars), Bekkah Moss (vocals), […]