There are albums that sell by the truckload and albums that quietly reroute a career, and Accident Of Birth belongs firmly in the second camp.
Released in May 1997, Bruce Dickinson’s fourth solo record arrived at the lowest commercial ebb heavy metal had known in a generation, with grunge having flattened half the genre and the other half still picking itself out of the rubble. Dickinson himself was four years out of Iron Maiden, his last outing Skunkworks had confused as many fans as it converted, and the bookies would have offered long odds on him ever standing on a stage alongside Steve Harris again. Then came this: twelve tracks of unapologetic, gloriously overblown heavy metal, made with Roy Z behind the desk and Adrian Smith…
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“Who Do You Want Me to Be” asked singer/songwriter Joanne Shaw Taylor on her 2009 debut, White Sugar. 11 studio albums and 17 years later she takes a more direct stance with “This Is Who I Am.” That tune is the lone cover from The Trouble with Love. The ten-song set further defines who she has become as a veteran roots artist who has gradually coalesced her approach and strengths. Taylor’s blues roots have always been on display, specifically through guitar solos like she and guest Joe Bonamassa ignite on the opening title track. For the following Bad Company-styled “Hell or High Water” she sings about her career with “I’m just a soul/trying to exist/All on my own/And I’ve given it my best.”
Since Britpop began, there have been endless arguments about the best Britpop band, the best Britpop album, the defining Britpop image. Choices vary, but it feels inarguable that Elastica – and Elastica – remain the coolest in all the above categories. The four-piece were cemented as elegant, eternal stars on their self-titled 1995 debut album: a collection of short, sharp songs, with equally short, sharp haircuts on the cover. Like the supernatural pop ideal immortalised in 1998’s Velvet Goldmine – a film they cameoed in – Elastica came from London but also seemingly arrived fully formed from another, sexier, less effortful dimension. Untouchable louche perfection. Exacting boy-girl androgynous tension. Post punk guitars arrived encased in…
Hootie & the Blowfish mark the 30th anniversary of their multi-platinum sophomore album, 
The Sheepdogs have now been in an amazing groove of producing upbeat, West Coast-leaning blues-rock for over twenty years. Their trademark sound manages to embrace the paradox of being both nostalgic and contemporary. 
Flatlands is a new John Zorn project for rock power trio, in the tradition of Simulacrum, Naked City and 
It’s hard to believe that, at this late stage, with dozens of Jimi Hendrix live discs available, there is anything decent left to discover. But 
The second chapter in Gong’s legendary Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy, 
Remastered from the original BYG Records tapes and cut for the first time ever at half-speed at the UK’s world-famous Stardelta Studios by Grammy Award–winning mastering engineer Lewis Hopkin, this exclusive RSD 2026 edition features a deluxe gatefold sleeve, archival artwork, and a 16-page booklet exploring the storytelling and mythology of the beloved Radio Gnome Invisible saga. Released under BYG Records – the original label that recorded the album before licensing it to Virgin – this definitive deluxe reissue delivers the best sound quality 
Released as an exclusive covermount CD with the November 2026 issue of MOJO magazine, 
Paul McCartney’s internationally acclaimed album The Boys of Dungeon Lane receives a Special Edition this October, featuring four additional recordings, including a new version of “Home To Us,” his celebrated duet with Ringo Starr, alongside three brand-new songs.
Originally released in March 1969, 
Two decades have passed in the land of 
On their sixteenth studio album, 
Greta Van Fleet remain the most consistently successful standard bearers for The New Rock’N’Roll. While the mania that greeted them at the tail end of the 2010s has abated, the Michigan band’s three albums to date have still all breached the US Top 10, a feat that Rival Sons, The Struts, Dirty Honey and the rest can only dream of.
On her previous album, 2024’s 
It started with Jerry Garcia. More specifically, on a tribute show to the deceased Grateful Dead icon with a band playing his songs accompanied by a full orchestra.
Americana/folk musician