Category: rock


For more than four decades, Grammy® Award winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Sammy Hagar has been one of rock music’s most dynamic and prolific artists. From his breakthrough with Montrose to a multiplatinum solo career and his years fronting Van Halen, Chickenfoot, The Circle, and now The Best of All Worlds Band, Hagar has sold over 50 million albums worldwide and delivered anthems like “I Can’t Drive 55,” “Right Now,” and “Why Can’t This Be Love.”
The Residency, the electrifying new live album from GRAMMY® Award winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Sammy Hagar and The Best of All Worlds Band featuring Michael Anthony (bass, vocals), Joe Satriani (guitar), Kenny Aronoff (drums), and Rai Thistlethwayte (keyboards, guitar, vocals)…

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Following up their 2024 Grammy-winning Blood Harmony, the southern rock/blues/roots sister duo Larkin Poe brings us, Bloom, with all songs a collaboration between Megan and Rebecca Lowell and their co-producer Tyler Bryant.
The duo, backed again by their touring bassist and drummer, Tarka Layman and Caleb Crosby, respectively, have Bryant (bass, electric guitar, 12-string guitar), Michael Webb (B3), and Eleonore Denig (strings) joining them in the studio. It’s an album about celebrating individuality, standing tall amidst the noise, and being true to oneself rather than bending to expectations. For this high-energy band that burns up stages, the lyrics are often secondary, but the duo strives to put more emphasis on…

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Formed in January 1969, Humble Pie soon became one of the best-loved, hardest-rocking live acts of the 1970s. In Steve Marriott, the one-time Small Faces frontman, “The Pie” had the best showman & biggest voice in the business. Peter Frampton, the “Face of ’68” with The Herd had a new role – guitar hero extraordinaire. And with hard-hitting powerhouse drummer Jerry Shirley & ex-Spooky Tooth bassist supreme Greg Ridley, Humble Pie quickly developed into a sophisticated studio unit where tough riffs, rustic rock & bursts of blissed-out psychedelia earned the band instant chart success & critical acclaim.
As Safe As Yesterday Is was their debut album for Immediate Records on 1 August 1969, reaching no. 32 in the UK charts.

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Atomic Rooster emerged out of the dissolution of the first Crazy World of Arthur Brown, with Vince Crane (Hammond Organ) and pre-ELP Carl Palmer (drums) joining with Nick Graham to form a new band. Palmer and Graham leave, replaced by Paul Hammond and John DuCann respectively and the Rooster enter their golden early seventies period, with hit singles like ‘Tomorrow Night’ and releasing their classic album, Death Walks Behind You, which proved to be the high point of their career. But after DuCann leaves, despite several more personnel changes, their moment passes. The Rooster reformed in 2016, however, when Vincent Cranes widow gives Steve Bolton (John DuCann’s replacement on guitar) permission to resurrect the band’s name, and this is their first album…

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Horses (50th Anniversary Edition), available through Legacy Recordings, will pair the classic LP with a further nine alternate versions and outtakes from the album sessions, including two selections from Smith’s demo tape for RCA Records. (Arista, unaffiliated with RCA at the time, ended up signing her for about a quarter-century.) A demo version of standout “Redondo Beach” was released on a 2002 compilation, but the others here – including the preview track “Snowball” and a cover of The Marvelettes’ “The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game” – are heard here for the first time. The deluxe Horses, available on CD, vinyl and digitally, prefaces the publication of Smith’s new memoir, Bread of Angels, in November. (Smith’s deliberate recording pace – one album in the ’80s…

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Have you been paying attention to Bill Orcutt? For the last dozen-plus years, or since the 2011 release of the splenetic acoustic marvel How the Thing Sings, the San Francisco-based guitarist has been on one of the great creative tears in his chosen instrument’s vaunted history. Whether alone, with a scattered cast of brazen collaborators, or quadrupling his own playing in an astonishing guitar quartet of one, Orcutt has been reshaping the emotional and technical terrain typically associated with instrumental guitar music. He cuts rage with wonder and laces joy with doubt as he splinters melodies and rebuilds them in uncanny new shapes, like a random-number generator that knows exactly what it’s doing. Orcutt’s music sometimes feels like some…

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…This edition of ‘Ramshackled’ has been newly remastered from the original master tapes and features the single versions of ‘Ooh Baby (Goin’ to Pieces)’ and ‘One Way Rag’ as two bonus tracks (issued on CD for the first time).
It’s worth remembering that between the release of 1971’s Fragile and 1974’s Relayer, Yes had steadily risen from plucky progressive rock hopefuls to become bona fide superstars, selling millions of albums around the globe and effortlessly filling arenas around North America and Europe.
With relationships souring due to clashing egos and the financial imperative to keep the cash-cow rolling, the idea of enabling every band member to record a solo album could be viewed either as a cunning managerial sleight of hand,…

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Bruce Springsteen began headlining arenas in the northeast as far back as October 1976 when he gigged two nights at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. He returned there for four concerts on the Darkness tour, and hit Madison Square Garden and Nassau Coliseum, too, then yet again in late 1980 on the River tour along with various regional Gardens and Civic Centers.
However, Springsteen wouldn’t play an arena show in his home state of New Jersey until July 1981 because, until then it didn’t have one. When the Brendan Byrne Arena opened in East Rutherford, Bruce and the E Street Band christened the future home of the Nets and Devils with a sold-out, six-show stand.
The new building already made this summer…

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The city of Oxford over the past few decades has spawned the likes of Foals, Ride, and of course, Radiohead. Looking to emulate some of this high-calibre pedigree, alt-rock four-piece Kanadia have just released their intriguingly titled third album The Fire That’s Tearing Through Our Home.
After their self-titled debut in 2019 and impressive live performances, Kanadia’s music has been widely tagged as “stadium-ready”. Their latest offering certainly doesn’t shy away from that perception with an abundance of dense, anthemic sonics.
It finds vocalists, guitarist and chief songwriter James Bettis soul-searching about his place in life; reflecting on the past, the present, and the unknown, while dealing with severe anxieties. The deep themes and heavy…

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Baltimore-bred psychedelic funk trailblazers Pigeons Playing Ping Pong release their eighth studio album, Feed the Fire via No Coincidence Records. Across twelve new tracks, the band channels nearly two decades of fearless creativity, relentless touring, and deep communion with their devoted fanbase into their most dynamic and collaborative work to date.
For the band, ‘Feed The Fire’ is not only an album title but a rallying cry. “The fire represents passion,” explains frontman “Scrambled Greg” Ormont. “Making music feels like something we were born to do, and Feed The Fire is the perfect metaphor for our unwavering commitment to keep evolving. We’ve been given this gift of fire, this passion. So it’s our responsibility to nurture it…

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Things began to take a different turn for Liam St. John in 2021 when his single ‘Dipped in Bleach’ went viral. The temptation at that stage would have been to cash in with an album, but he’s taken four years to carefully plot his course, and you can hear the care taken on all of the 16 tracks of his debut album, Man of the North.
Born in the Pacific Northwest, he’s quite used to storms, and it’s clear that he’s already survived a few as he lays his often troubled past open for inspection. Things kick off with ‘If I Were My Father,’ a particularly poignant song coming from a man who was raised by a single mother. The last line, “if I was my father, I would have just stayed away”, says a lot about his childhood. ‘Believer’ looks at a broken relationship…

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For her third album, Nashville-based Kashena Sampson pivots away from her more traditional folk-leaning roots toward a moodier, psychedelic folk-rock sound that gives her music a darker edge and continues to add to her appeal.
You can hear influences as varied as Kate Bush, Siouxsie Sioux, and Tori Amos woven throughout the nine tracks that make up Ghost of Me. That’s not to say she has completely abandoned her Americana roots; she just managed to find a darker, Gothic side to the genre by employing more synths and reverb to enhance the moodiness, while delving into deeper topics. The change is apparent on the opening title track. Backed by synthesizers, a swelling orchestra, and a lot of reverb, she essentially gives listeners…

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In 2024, as Pavlov’s Dog celebrated the release of the career-spanning retrospective box set Essential Recordings 1974–2018, the band was already hard at work on a new album of original material. That album, entitled Wonderlust, has now arrived on Ruf Records—a half-century after their debut LP Pampered Menial, with the hit “Julia” briefly making Pavlov’s Dog the darlings of the 1970s progressive rock scene.
“I’m so proud of Wonderlust. Sometimes it just takes a half century to discover the proper lyrics, chords and melodies,” says Pavlov’s Dog lead singer, guitarist and main songwriter, David Surkamp. “Abbie Steiling has created some of our most haunting moments with her breathtaking string arrangements.

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2025 remaster
Opting not to fix what broke them, You Could Have It So Much Better serves up more of the stylish, angular sound that worked so well on Franz Ferdinand’s debut. After years of rehearsing in abandoned Glasgow warehouses and playing in relatively obscure groups like the Yummy Fur, it’s perfectly understandable why the band chose not to mess with a good thing — and why they chose to follow up the breakthrough success of Franz Ferdinand so quickly. But, after a year and a half of near-instant acclaim and constant touring, Franz Ferdinand return with songs that just aren’t as consistently good as the album that made them so successful in the first place. A lot of You Could Have It So Much Better feels like…

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AFI has never been a band to shy away from evolution. In fact, they encourage it as a natural progression of their sound. For the last 33 years, the California natives have seeped into every orifice of rock’s subgenres, growing from their nascent hardcore sound in the early ‘90s, into their classic punk leanings in the new millennium, before segueing into the depths of emo, alternative, new wave and more in the years since. AFI is continually fascinating, keeping an impressive stream of creativity flowing that marks them as one of the last remaining pillars of their era.
At their core, the Gothic has always been lurking within AFI’s discography, producing a singular melancholy that drives their allure. Now, upon the release of their twelfth album,..

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…The British rock icons offer a slightly expanded edition of 1995’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, pairing a 2014 remaster of the album (which initially came with additional bonus material) with a bonus EP of new unplugged mixes of four of the album’s tracks (plus a non-album B-side, “Acquiesce.” The group’s songwriter/guitarist Noel Gallagher and Callum Marinho built these new versions from the original multitrack recordings in Noel’s London studio.
After the much-hyped blockbuster Definitely Maybe (1994) established the Manchester band (led by the volatile brothers Noel and vocalist Liam Gallagher) as England’s hottest new rock outfit, Oasis sought to go even bigger with Morning Glory, swinging for the fences with their songcraft…

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