UK ROCKERS RELEASE VIDEO FOR SINGLE ‘NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR MINDS’ AS THEY PREPARE FOR MAJOR US ASSAULT IN ANTICIPATION of their first visit to North America as guests on the 43-date Kiss/ Motley Crue tour, The Treatment premiere the video for third single ’Nothing To Lose But Our Minds’ – this a brand…
ENSIFERUM, THE highly visual troupe who’ve long been a market leader when it comes to stirring, armour-plated anthems, will have their fifth studio album released through the Spinefarm label on August 27th 2012. Titled ‘Unsung Heroes’ and produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, Sentenced, Apocalyptica, etc.), this is the hour-plus follow-up to 2009’s ‘From Afar’, and…
Universal Music Catalogue’s new “Re-presents” label takes well known and loved albums from decades gone and releases them in a new form. This release is Swing Out Sister’s 1987 album ”It’s better to travel”. The album spent 21 weeks in the charts and reached the number one spot. The album contained two top ten hit…
Ben Glover comes from Glenarm, Co Antrim, a small coastal village 30 miles from Belfast, Northern Ireland and splits him time between there and Nashville, Tennessee, where he recorded his latest album. This new album (his fourth) was originally planned to be a five song EP, but the sessions went so well that more tracks…
Blackmore’s Night is the medieval folk rock band formed by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his singer wife, Candice Night. Playing folk rock and taking medieval influences such as stage outfits as well as traditional songs, the band blend these with an electric guitar based rock sound which gives the bands quite a distinct sound. Ritchie…
”The Kinks at the BBC” is as the name suggests, an album of material by The Kinks that has been primarily taken from the BBC archives. It’s a pretty impressive collection – Five CD’s, one DVD and a book, and at just under £40 is pretty good value when you look how much is included….
Universal Music Catalogue’s “Re-presents” label takes well known and loved albums from decades gone and quite literally re-presents them in a fresh, new form. Each 2CD package features the original album as it was in its entirety and will be crammed full of other exciting material including original B-sides, alternative mixes, extended versions and edits…
Swedish indie-troupe Simian Ghost’s latest album, “Youth”, received substantial critical acclaim when it hit the shops in March. The latest single to be taken from the record “Automation” is a true highlight from that record, a blissed-out slice of perfect pop, with hushed vocals leading into a twinkling and memorable chorus. If the sun ever…
Chris Helme, who first rose to prominence as the front man of John Squire’s post-Stone Roses band ‘The Seahorses’ will release his brand new solo album on August 27th. Still rightfully remembered for the anthemic Britpop classics Love Is The Law and Blinded By The Sun – songs that evoked everything the 90’s stood for,…
Ben Glover is back with a fourth album, as emotionally graceful and expertly Americana as his previous three. But of course with even more song writing maturity, his Springsteen-esque qualities and healthy Dylan twinge even more present and, the critics’ early premonitions of greatness even more justified. Recorded in the heart of Nashville, the album…
Mike Tyler is a celebrated non-academic, post-beat poet and musician in the American tradition. ‘Erection’ is his second album, creatively processed more like a novel than a recording. There is an incredible control over the work, with subtle musical innuendos and effects, as well as an incomparable sense of humour throughout. ‘Conversational Spanish’ has a…
Following their hugely successful sell out 15 date tour in January, Danny Bowes & Ben Matthews from Thunder, will hit the road again in January 2013 for more intimate evenings of 2 man mirth, music and musings. Sticking with the same format as before – a mix of acoustic Thunder songs & favourite covers, plus…