Category: rock


Bob “Slim” Dunlap epitomized the journeyman musician who plays for the fun of it when his day gig allows. However, even casual listeners know his name for one reason: landing the “hot seat” assignment of succeeding the Replacements’ late, troubled guitarist Bob Stinson. But there’s more to Dunlap’s story than his experience with that legendarily star-crossed Minneapolis quartet might indicate.
Slim Dunlap’s two obscure yet adored mid-90’s solo albums “The Old New Me” & “Times Like This” have been remastered and packaged on a new double-CD entitled Every Little Word. In full cooperation with Slim’s family and Peter Jesperson’s Medium Cool – Twin/Tone Records imprint especially for Curation Records.

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Wild Horses originally formed in 1978, when guitarist Brian Robertson left Thin Lizzy after the legendary ‘Live And Dangerous’ record, and bassist Jimmy Bain left Rainbow following the double live ‘On Stage’ album, joining forces to create this melodic, hard rock supergroup.
Originally featuring drummer Kenney Jones (Faces, The Who) and guitarist Jimmy McCulloch (Wings, Stone The Crows), the line-up stabilised when Robertson and Bain were joined by drummer Clive Edwards (Uli Jon Roth, UFO, Pat Travers) and multi-instrumentalist Neil Carter (UFO, Gary Moore).
They were signed to EMI following their appearance at the 1979 Reading Rock Festival, releasing their Trevor Rabin (Yes) produced debut ‘The First Album’ in 1980. Featuring the singles…

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Vast, the fourth studio album from Vermont’s Wet Tuna to make its way to vinyl and first since 2022, presents a wide-screen slab of irreverent, playful psychedelia that could have only come from the hands / brain / interstellar groove telescope of Matt “MV” Valentine.
Over the course of ten tracks you are hit with slice after slice of pleasantly disorienting, secretly whip-tight rural funk that is truly out of time. One tune in you start to feel gravity lighten your grip to the earth. By track three that lightness gives way to a distinct “when was this recorded?” vibe. 1960? 2170? 2280? By jam ten you’ve been so soaked in the aura that you no longer care as you know that you are here now. Where else have you ever been? Or wanted to be?

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Live at Nelsonica & Clothworkers Hall – this is the first ever released recording of this unique trio comprising of: Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe/Red Noise), Theo Travis (Soft Machine/Robert Fripp/Steven Wilson), Dave Sturt (Gong/Jade Warrior).
The trio performed various concerts between 2009 and 2019 often as part of Bill Nelson’s ‘Nelsonica’ conventions. Following years of planning and preparation, this album consists of live recordings made by the trio in 2011, 2012 and 2018 from 3 concerts in Leeds and York.
The music, a broad sound palette from ambient soundscapes, to rocky workouts and ethereal mood painting was improvised over loosely prepared structures. with occasional use of backing…

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Glasgow’s Helicon and Los Angeles-based producer and DJ Al Lover have joined forces on a bold new collaborative album, Arise, due for release February 13th 2026 on Fuzz Club. “Arise confronts a culture of individualism at the mercy of opportunistic grifters,” says frontman John-Paul Hughes, “offering a reminder that empathy, compassion, and authenticity are still choices.” Reflecting that tension, Helicon and Al Lover deliver a maximalist, uplifting sound with a baggy, hypnotic pulse — fusing Helicon’s trademark psychedelia with Al Lover’s genre-bending electronics.
Produced by Tony Doogan (Mogwai, The Jesus & Mary Chain) at Castle Of Doom Studios in Glasgow, the result is a dense, hypnotic and fiercely rhythmic record that layers trip-hop breaks…

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Swedish high energy rockers The Hellacopters have been celebrating their 30th anniversary recently and after releasing something new – the much-lauded “Overdriver” album on January 31, 2025, which reached No. 1 in the Swedish charts for the second time in the group’s career – it is time to offer their dedicated fanbase something truly nostalgic.
Cream of the Crap! Collected Non-Album Works • Volume 3 is the long-overdue follow-up in a series of rarities collections started in 2002 combining material from a myriad of singles, EPs, and compilations. The 24 tracks featured in this set have originally been released between 1995 and 2004, and include originals like ‘Disappointment Blues’, ‘Freeway To Hell’, ‘Doggone Your Bad-Luck Soul’ and ‘Long Gone Losers’ as well as many…

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Back with more of their compelling juxtaposition of riff-fueled rock and writer/musician Elizabeth Nelson’s hyper-aware, articulate, sometimes esoteric conversational patter, The Paranoid Style present their timely titled fifth LP, Known Associates. With the exception of new bassist Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, it reunites the noteworthy lineup from 2024’s The Interrogator: Nelson, her husband Timothy Bracy (the Mendoza Line), lead guitarist Peter Holsapple (the dB’s), keyboardist William Matheny, and drummer Jon Langmead, most of whom are also fellow freelance writers. As usual, the group welcomed a few guests into the studio as well, namely the Mountain Goats’ Matt Douglas, and Eugene Edwards (Brian Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Beck,…

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New Zealand duo Earth Tongue were no strangers to hellish distortion and Satanic psychedelia before teaming with Ty Segall to record their third full length, Dungeon Vision. The pair’s talent for top-volume riffs, sinister vocal harmonies, and overpowering performances that are both tight and chaotic at once defined their sound for much of their discography. With Segall’s help, Earth Tongue don’t necessarily amplify their demonic psych heaviness as much as they bring it to a new level of singed crispiness.
There’s a bit more of a prog sensibility to the blazing guitars and odd time signature grooves of the title track, as with the Black Sabbath-meets-King Crimson sludginess of “Watchtower.” When Earth Tongue’s Gussie Larkin and…

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For a few minutes in 1976 – America’s bicentennial year and the 15th anniversary of California-sun ambassadors The Beach Boys – the hype was right: Brian Wilson was back. On November 27th, the group’s resident, troubled genius was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. And he was solo, his first TV appearance without brothers Dennis and Carl, Mike Love and Al Jardine since a legendary recital of Surf’s Up in the 1967 documentary Inside Pop. Brian’s three SNL songs included an eerie ‘Good Vibrations’ – alone and skittish at a piano in a faux-sandbox set – and ‘Back Home’, a jaunty original from the Beach Boys’ latest LP, 15 Big Ones, with the SNL band even though the former were in town selling out Madison Square Garden.
Brian also performed ‘Love Is a Woman’, a new…

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Equipment Pointed Ankh is a truly bizarre collective. While the profile of Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band has risen precipitously over the last few years, the same gang of adventurers has continued to make strange, colorful, mostly instrumental music as Equipment Pointed Ankh behind the scenes — of which Eggs a Little Late is the latest taste. It sounds as though this fresh batch of music has been influenced by the collective’s recent recording and touring experiences as The Roadhouse Band, stirring in more honky-tonk, country-rock influences, and it’s certainly more accessible than their last couple of efforts, 2023’s excellent  From Inside the House and Downtown!
The clearest throughline from past EPA recordings is the two spoken-word pieces,…

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In the early 1990s, Stephen McCarthy and Kevin Pittman holed up together for a year in a 100-year-old bungalow. McCarthy is well known as a guitarist and vocalist for The Long Ryders, but has also played for The Jayhawks on tour and on some tracks on their latest album Xoxo. Pittman, originally from Reedville, on the coast of Virginia, toured up and down the East Coast with his first major band, The Dogs. This high-energy outfit had some success, for example, opening for The Kinks and Culture Club. He lived in LA for a while but then returned to Virginia, where he still lives. He formed a ’70s R&B band, NRG KRYSYS, which lasted for seven years, but never released an album. In recent years, he has released solo albums “Victrola Mouth” (2019) and “Sundog” (2023).

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Prog superstar Steven Wilson has released a new album, Impossible Tightrope: Live in Madrid. It’s the first release to arrive via Wilson’s new audiophile platform, Headphone Dust.
“For some time I’ve been planning to have an online platform where I can focus on making audiophile versions of the things I work on,” says Wilson. “I love (and am still committed to) the Blu-ray format, but not everyone has the capacity to play these discs, not to mention that these releases need to be limited and tend to go out of print quickly, meaning the audio becomes unavailable. “So I’m happy to announce that a brand new Headphone Dust high-res audio resource has now launched and will provide a permanent home for my work to be downloaded in high resolution, 5.1…

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This release unearths a previously unreleased live recording from Boris’s 2019 US tour, captured shortly after the release of the single tears e.p and the album LΦVE & EVΦL.
Released in 2019, LΦVE & EVΦL is a conceptual work consisting of two contrasting yet intertwined albums. Following the heavy yet catchy Noise (2014) and the organic deepening of Dear (2017), the 2019 single tears e.p arrived as a pendulum swing toward pure popness, featuring collaborations with Narasaki (Coaltar Of The Deepers) and Shinobu Narita. Subsequently, the album LΦVE & EVΦL peered into the abyss of “heavy” even further-manifesting a world of saturated contours and gridless, intoxicating soundscapes that redefined…

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Bruce Springsteen Solo Acoustic
Any reasonable interpretation of Bruce Springsteens disparate activities in the year 1995 could only lead one to conclude that he had reached a point where he didn’t know what the hell he wanted to do or where he wanted to go musically. That is, until the release of The Ghost of Tom Joad. Suddenly, everything came into focus and boy did he lock in. One might even say he never let go.
The Joad tour began in late 1995, crossed much of 1996, and was extended again into the first half of 1997, which included a ten-show Australian run and this fine fifth and final show in Sydney. Springsteen stayed on the road for two simple reasons: he immensely enjoyed the solo experience and the subject matter he was performing…

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New expanded edition of the band’s very first double album On the Double, released in 1969, including the Golden Earring classic Just A Little Bit Of Peace In My Heart.
Remastered for the first time from the original first-generation Phonogram Studio and Sterling Sound master tapes. Including four bonus tracks, including previously unreleased stereo mixes of Dong-Dong-Di-Ki-Di-Gi Dong and Wake Up-Breakfast! Also includes a 20-page booklet with liner notes, memorabilia, and photos.
Founded in 1961 by George Kooymans and Rinus Gerritsen, Dutch rock band Golden Earring (or Golden Earrings, until 1969) started off as a beat band, experimented as a psychedelic quartet and finally became a heavy rock group.

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This release marks the second installment of the 20th anniversary project celebrating the original studio album Rainbow (2006). It documents a live performance recorded on February 8, 2019, at U.F.O. CLUB in Higashi-Koenji, Tokyo.
Michio Kurihara is a singular guitarist who has played a central role in Japan’s psychedelic rock scene through his work with YBO2, White Heaven, THE STARS, and other key projects. Rainbow, created and released in 2006 under the name Boris with Michio Kurihara, reaches its 20th anniversary this year. Since 2007, Kurihara has also joined Boris as a support guitarist on tours and live performances, while performing on several occasions under the Boris with Michio Kurihara name in parallel.

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