Mike Maffei

UK project The John Irvine Band have been around in some form or other for a bit over a decade now. From what I understand with few fixed elements in the band itself outside of main man John Irvine himself. […]

Marty Dorfman, AKA The Prog Doc, resides in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA and has been a Progressive Music Fan since the 70’s. His friend Mitch’s dogged insistence that he listen to “prog” above all else influen […]

Legend has it, my love for music began in the womb at a KISS Concert in the Summer of 1977. According to my mother, I didn’t move at all for Cheap Trick. However, when KISS took the stage, I wouldn’t stop mov […]

I was sat working away at my desk one evening recently, when I had a message come through from TeMatera Smith, asking if I would be interested in hearing a brand-new album which he had literally just finished […]

In the Nineties, guitarist and singer Scott Pilgrim had a band in Melbourne called Soda, who released the Pan EP. Fast forward 23 years and he walked into Warwick Donald’s control room and saw a multi-track tape d […]

Steve Bonino A New York City native, Steve is the son of Roz Vallero, a professional actress. Steve’s father, Ernesto Bonino, was a famous Italian crooner who was very popular in Europe and who also enjoyed s […]

US band GABAGOOL has been in development since 2018 and thereabouts, and while the material was written and recorded mainly by Shelby Neil Smith I understand that this is a proper band unit as well, seeing that […]

US composer and musician TRISTAN WOOD is a young artist based in the pacific northwest that has been developing his career as a pop musician for a few years. Following a good handful of singles he released his […]

US based power trio BUZZED & LOADED is a fairly new band, launched a couple of years back it would seem, and consist of seasoned musicians with a strong pedigree from the US, Canada and Australia respectively. […]

UK band FABIAN JACK started out back in 2016, and from 2017 and onward they have been releasing singles at a steady pace in addition to trying to establish a firm presence in the live scene. In the spring of 2021 […]

US band THE DRUIDS OF STONEHENGE started out back in the second half of the 1960’s, and while the band as a fixed band unit broke up in 1969 they have reappeared here and there over the years but mainly in the […]

RACK and GRIDFAILURE are, based on the descriptions that followed this promo, two artists with a similar approach to their music. Harsh noise textures and dystopian atmospheres is the order of the day, and the […]

John Lodge, legendary bass player, songwriter and vocalist of The Moody Blues, and inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is to release a new digital single entitled “The Sun Will Shine” on April 30th 202 […]

In a stunning, full-color book, author Anthony Garone details a 22-year journey of transformation in mastering the intricate complexity of “Fracture” – described by composer Robert Fripp as “impossible to play. […]