Album Review: DeWolff – Muscle Shoals

Album Review: DeWolff – Muscle Shoals

DeWolff are muscularly soulful, seriously and deliriously swirly, dreamily real on Muscle Shoals.  This superior, chops-heavy outfit take a classic sound from a classic place, mould and cherish it in a legendary home of recording, and spin their gloriously sexy,...
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Album Review: Beth Hart – You Still Got Me

Album Review: Beth Hart – You Still Got Me

Blues belter Beth Hart blazes back with a fine, fine new album full of strong songs, guest stars, passion, emotion and powerful, potent atmosphere. Hart always seems to have decadence and danger about her, grit yet fragility, but she is...
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Album Review: Blue Oyster Cult – 50th Anniversary Live – Second Night (including Tyranny And Mutation)

Album Review: Blue Oyster Cult – 50th Anniversary Live – Second Night (including Tyranny And Mutation)

Majestic, mysterious, magical Blue Oyster Cult career once again down Hot Rails To Hell. Join the latest celebration of the most supernatural, sinful and iconic rock ’n’ roll outfit from the Lovecraftian woods, mists and shores of Long Island. Th...
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Top 10: Metal Albums

Top 10: Metal Albums

No. 10: SpiritWorld – DeathwesternLabel: Century Media Do Metal and Spaghetti Westerns go together? You tell me! See Kreator’s Sergio Corbuccio Is Dead, the intro to their Hate Uber Alles album, or Karma To Burn’s classic Arch Stanton, to name...
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Live Review: Machine Head – Electric Happy Hour (Live) at the Lemon Tree, Aberdeen (September 4, 2022)

Live Review: Machine Head – Electric Happy Hour (Live) at the Lemon Tree, Aberdeen (September 4, 2022)

When is an Electric Happy Hour not an Electric Happy Hour? When it’s two hours, and when it’s not just “happy” but ecstatic, epic and enthralling (if not, ultimately, a tad enervating). Electric? I’ll give you that – OK, I’ll...
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