This is the third album from a band who are in many ways an offshoot of The Samurai of Prog, and their second since the departure of keyboard player Ton Scherpenzeel (Kayak, Camel), with the line-up being Rafael Pacha (saz, recorders, crumhorn, classical, acoustic...

This is not the first time that Jordsjø and Breidablik have released an album together, as back in 2016 there was ‘Songs From The Northern Wasteland’, but that featured multiple songs from each band. This time around each band has a side to themselves for just one...

Jonathan Segel is a prolific musician who has now been playing in Camper van Beethoven for more than 35 years as well as releasing solo albums, but I always think of him as being a core player in Øresund Space Collective and I was kindly sent this album to review by...

This is the first time I have come across rancher, alt-country musician and dreamer Avery Hellman, but I certainly hope it will not be the last. In 2023, they were working on an album, podcast, and documentary on Lucinda Williams and discovered how important writing...

The Hollywood Stars are back with their next album following on from 2024’s comeback, ‘Starstruck’. The line-up is the same as on that album, namely vocalist Scott Phares and drummer Terry Rae (founding members in 1973), bassist Michael Rummans (joined in 1976) plus...

There is no doubt that Konstantinos Karamitroudis (Gus G.) has come a long way since picking up a guitar after hearing ‘Frampton Comes Alive’ when he was a lad. As well as Ozzy and Firewind he has played with numerous other bands and this is his fifth solo album where...

It never ceases to amaze me that there is still a music scene within Ukraine, and that musicians still manage to find a way of getting their music and message out, and here we have Vøvk who released this their second album in October last year. The current line-up of...

This interesting album was recorded in April 1960 then released the following year on Vee-Jay, and in the liner notes it was argued by saxophonist Cannonball Adderley that there was a tension in modern jazz between those who preferred the traditional style and those...

The latest in the Craft Recordings/Concord reissue series of Thelonious Monk is his third solo album, originally released on Riverside, which captures Monk at the Fugazi Hall, San Francisco, California, on October 21st and 22nd, 1959, without an audience present. This...

Formed in 2025 by two musicians on different sides of the Atlantic, they initially operated under the pseudonyms of The Monarch of the Hillside (MOTH) and The North East Wizard Tyrant (NEWT), although it didn’t take too long for fans to realise it was singer Alex...