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Dave Porter and The James Henry Morgan Gang Reviewed
February 5, 2026
Dave Porter – Are You out There?
If you can’t afford to fit a nice fireplace into your apartment and sit there for hours on end watching the wood burning, then you’re best off buying yourself a really good record player and start getting hypnotised by the…
Top 10 Songs by Kansas
February 4, 2026
Are musicians just naturally cool? And, are they cooler when they sit on stage with a cig dangling from their lips, or when they have the ability to play any style of music that they can think of?
Kansas is one of the greatest rock bands of all time. And the group…
Agnosis and Savonarola Reviewed
January 21, 2026
Agnosis – Yakshas
Listen, rock n’ roll has never been a world populated by great intellectuals. There have been exceptions. You Lou Reeds, Lennons, and Bowies did your best work while utilising the 3-4 guitar chords that you knew. But, they were only doing rock…
Enoch Root and Neverbody Reviewed
December 14, 2025
Enoch Root – Oh, Violet
It used to be that even quasi-famous bands had to contend with making at least one music video. This would be, it was understood, their main promotional tool. It was a non-negotiable. And, because of this, for a long time, it was one of the…
Gee Whiz and DÜÜL SUNS Reviewed
December 14, 2025
Gee Whiz – Mr Dinosaur
I don’t think that it’s all going to work out too well for all the hundreds and thousands of serious-minded rockers writing songs about the Egyptian pyramids and trying to incorporate musical elements studied from Mahavishnu Orchestra…
Almamor and Maw Sit Sit Reviewed
November 18, 2025
Almamor – Far Apart
Don’t know ambition. It’s done more for your record collection than an army of producers, managers and fashion consultants ever could have. In fact, a close and unemotional investigation could likely reveal that ambition always trumps…
Halfcast and follow Reviewed
October 24, 2025
Halfcast – The Damage
I’m not sure that I miss the half-hour guitar solos or the drum kit that required three roadies to be set up. But I do miss the awkwardness and vulnerability of the progressive rock bands of the 1970s. You don’t get much of that…
Applesaucer and Rocket Bike Reviewed
October 11, 2025
Applesaucer – The Most Beautiful Thing
If managers and record execs were honest with their clients, they’d point to the clock on the wall the moment that the contract had been signed and say, “Hurry up! Your time is running out!”
That’s the natural flow…
Top 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time (In My Opinion)
August 30, 2025
The greatest drummers of all time are musicians blessed with impeccable timing who are diligently studied by those who want to play like them. Still, I suppose that if you go by Spinal Tap standards, they’re the folks in whose biographies bizarre gardening accidents…