by Pete Sargeant | Jun 18, 2017 | Reviews
Jen Gloeckner Vine (Spinning Head Records) Iowa act Jen Gloeckner has some pretty interesting collaborators on this new record. The promo notes suggest similarities in style with Lana Del Ray, Mazzy Star, Cocteau Twins, P J Harvey. But I played it anyway…. The chilled...
by Pete Sargeant | Jun 8, 2017 | Reviews
Hank Marvin Without A Word (Demon Music Group) The master of the twanging electric guitar returns. We were all set to meet the man and talk guitars, this record and everything else, but his trip over from Australia for promo was cancelled, as we understand it for...
by Pete Sargeant | Jun 7, 2017 | Reviews
Debbie Bond Winds Of Change (Single) (Blues Roots Productions) With a career that embraces performing alongside Eddie Kirkland, Willie Smith and Johnny Shines, Bond heads to Tuscaloosa to record a song that winds up at Muscle Shoals for mixing and mastering. She...
by Pete Sargeant | Jun 7, 2017 | Reviews
I, The Betrayer 7 EP (Darkspawn Records) Seven songs from a rock band based in Oslo, Norway and in a suitably bleak and black album package. They look as though they have come to kick your door down. I always wish with metal bands that just one member would have a...
by Pete Sargeant | Jun 4, 2017 | Reviews
Rainbow – 20 Reasons To Love Rainbow Every now and again we like to honour artists we like – for whatever reasons – by running through some of our favourite recordings from their history and in this case varying lineups. The following are not in any...
by Pete Sargeant | May 29, 2017 | Reviews
Wilko Johnson Keep It To Myself (The Best of Wilko Johnson) (Chess/UMC) I have recently spoken to the guitar man in black we know as Wilko Johnson for a third installment in our series of chats about him, his life, his music – watch this site for the publication of...
