Making Tracks: On Tour 2010 – 2012
Replacements: three. Original members: two. Who wins? It’s your call on this faithful imitation of the Yardbirds’ old sound.
Replacements: three. Original members: two. Who wins? It’s your call on this faithful imitation of the Yardbirds’ old sound.
Live at the Roseland Ballroom, NYC (Eagle Records). Review by Christopher Long.
Scandinavian Nights, in Concert 1970-1972, Live in London, and MK III: The Final Concerts (Eagle Rock Entertainment). Review by Al Pergande.
Finally, a DVD release of the seminal Bon Scott-fronted AC/DC concert film Let There Be Rock.
Big Dogz (Eagle Records). Review by Christopher Long.
Lucy & Wayne and The Amairican Stream (). Review by James Mann.
Vintage interviews with the triumvirate of guitar gods.
Carl F Gauze is overwhelmed by Rob Roth’s glossy, artsy rock and roll promotion obscurities.
Elianne Halbersberg has an insightful conversation with Taddy Porter’s quite punctual Kevin Jones.
From their new record to their ever-changing front men to personal musical influences, Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante had a lot to say leading up to his band’s 2010 tour with thrash metal heavyweights Megadeth and Slayer.
Ghosts (453 Music). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Ghosts (453 Music). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Reimaginator. Review by Joe Frietze.
What We All Come to Need (Southern Lord). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Author Charles R. Cross delivers a unique and detailed account of Led Zeppelin’s recording history – one platinum-selling record at a time.
Hurrication EP (Olympic). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Shelton Hull suspects Jimmy Page is pleased with this unabashedly unauthorized biography.
Gail Worley gets the definitive interview out of Secret Machines’ feisty drummer Josh Garza. She calls them a grunge Be Bop Deluxe, but in a good way.
William Weikart , the mastermind behind the band Obscured by Clouds , is one literate and surprising person. Tim Wardyn unveils Weikart’s impressive cast of influences (including Chris Cornell and Baroque music), how ex-girlfriends contributed to one of the best songs on their album Psycheclectic, and how his bandmate Thee Slayer Hippy got his name.
Are you ready to scream your lungs out?! Dave Grohl was. So were over 80,000 fans as they packed Wembley Stadium for a performance that was two parts ferocious rock and one part classic rock. All this makes Tim Wardyn want to go to a Foo Fighters concert so badly that he can taste the sweat flying off the TV. We’ll let him explain.
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.
Meiko Kaji’s katana is sharp and looking for revenge in Wandering Ginza Butterfly and its sequel, She Cat Gambler, a stylish pair of early ’70s action films.