Gregg is a former academic turned terrestrial radio DJ at WVLP 103.1fm and WLPR 89.1fm (NPR affiliate) in Indiana.
He’s been on FM radio for nearly 20 years and a collector for many more, with a collection […]

Following on from 2016’s ‘Peace Trail’, which was recorded just with drummer Jim Keltner and bass guitarist Paul Bushnell, and the delving into the vaults which gave us the wonderful ‘Hitchhiker’, the next new […]

The next album from Neil Young was 2019’s ‘Colorado’, which saw him reunited with his old band Crazy Horse. Anyone who has ever been lucky enough to see him play with these guys knows there is something speci […]

Here we have the soundtrack to a film which was dogged with controversy even before it was released, with surviving members of the crash suing ex-drummer Artimus Pyle regarding his involvement and attempting to […]

Nick Marsh was perhaps known best as founding member of seminal post-punk band Flesh for Lulu, although he also performed with the likes of Urban Voodoo Machine and released his solo album ‘A Universe Between U […]

It is safe to say that when I first came across Pantera with their fifth album, 1990’s ‘Cowboys From Hell’ I was not impressed, and over the last 30 years have recognised there have been some good songs from withi […]

This is the debut album from UK-base trio Phobetor who comprise Debora Conserva (vocals), Mitch Revy (guitar), Marc Dyos (drums) plus session bassist Richard Hunter. Although Conserva can sing gently when she […]

This is the debut album by West-Auckland alternative Metal band Primacy, which was produced and mixed by guitarist Jared Tobin and mastered by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Between the Buried and Me, Sepultura amongst […]

Back in 1999 I was sent an album to review by a new band from Des Moines, Iowa. This was before there had been any mass media in the UK, and on hearing it I knew this band were going to be huge, but there was no […]

When the band has a name like Stench of Profit, and the first song is just instrumental keyboards, one just knows the rest of the album is not going to be like that, which is of course what we have here. Here we […]

If one were to guess the origin of this album, one would certainly not say that it comes from New Zealand, as this has its heart firmly in South America and, at times, even Cuba. Kiwi guitarist Julie Bevan has […]

Miss Used are a four-piece grunge blues band based in Auckland, who were formed in 2018, and this is their first EP. I have been fortunate enough to catch these guys in concert a few times recently, and they are […]

Auckland-based Investigator are back with their second single from the forthcoming album, which they liken to a combination of Weezer and Pixies and they have that description pretty much nailed. It is somewhat […]

Darlington-based singer Hayley McKay contacted me as she had been given my details by her cousin, Gary Miller of The Whisky Priests, and wondered if I would be interested in hearing her latest single. Having been […]

I must firstly apologise to Liz as she did indeed send this out in plenty of time to be reviewed before Christmas, but the end of the year became something of a reviewing nightmare for me, so it didn’t make it. L […]

Tasmania’s Psycroptic have been blasting all before them for more than 20 years and are showing no sign at all of slowing down yet. As with quite a few bands, they have released this single during the current p […]

No-one can say they have not been warned given the name of the band, the EP title, or the label it has been released on. Yes, what we have here is brutal death metal from a Spanish band who only formed in 2019, […]

I was recently fortunate to see Graves in concert, something which is going to stick with me for quite a while, as it was a real experience, with volume being used as a weapon and a totally uncompromising […]

In 2014 Graves put out their next release, a split cassette with Dunedin-based Conniption. The latter were a raw d-beat band, for whom this was their final recording with bass, drums and guitars originally […]

2015 saw Graves release their next, and currently latest, EP, ‘Fides Ad Nauseam’. Nine songs somehow stretch to some 12 minutes in total length, due primarily to “Suffer” having an epic length of 3:31. Here wa […]