A rather pleasing new album dropped in April as Manelik, an alternative rock band from Geneva, Switzerland, released their debut EP F.L.Y. an excellent collection of songs that bridges 80’s synth pop and 90’s alternative […]
Drew's Reviews
Music Reviews You Won't Get Anywhere Else – Concert reviews, album reviews, sometimes a book review and the occasional artist interview when the timing hits just right.
Album Review: Def Leppard – Hits Vegas (Live)
The #1 concert of 2019 gets the live release treatment as Def Leppard dropped Hits Vegas (Live) on Friday (May 29), a 28-song live album that captured the band in its finest moment last year […]
Album Review: Rush – Permanent Waves 40th Anniversary
I must confess. I passed on purchasing the 40th Anniversary release of Permanent Waves (released today – May 29). Filling my shelves with two-inch thick boxes I’ll open once and likely won’t ever open again […]
The Best Concert T-Shirts (I Own)
The Concert Shirt. If you attend a concert without going home with a concert t-shirt you didn’t really attend the show. At least that was my thinking many years ago. As such, I have many […]
Guilhem Desq Covers Pantera’s “Cowboys from Hell” Using a Hurdy-Gurdy
I don’t know what I just watched but this is one of the coolest things I have seen in quite a while and thought I’d share. Musician Guilhem Desq uses a pasta maker to produce […]
Top 10 Best Tom Petty Songs
Unfortunately, we won’t get new music from Tom Petty unless it comes from a vault of unreleased material he sat on prior to his death. When Petty died in 2017 he left a pretty big […]
Album Review: Gin Blossoms – Major Lodge Victory
Major Lodge Victory slipped under the radar (landed at #159 on Billboard 200) and quickly disappeared in 2006 but marked the turning point in a log slog back to relevance Gin Blossoms fully enjoy today. […]
Album Review: Rush – Rush Through Time
The Rush album you didn’t know existed. Ah, maybe you did. Certainly most Rush fans know about Rush Through Time a legitimate compilation album mostly released against the band’s wishes. The German branch of Polygram […]
Album Review: John Taylor – Feelings Are Good And Other Lies
Somehow, someway in October 1999 I learned the bassist for Duran Duran, John Taylor, was live in concert at The Coach House, a small but popular venue in San Juan Capistrano, CA. When dating an […]
Album Review: Pearl Jam – Gigaton
Rock music’s most arrogant band released their 11th studio album a week ago (March 27) and while Pearl Jam does explore some new angles, the 12 song, nearly hour long Gigaton sounds slovenly at times […]
