After “retiring” from posting articles online (i.e. blogging) in January, I felt the pull to return earlier this month with Alex Lifeson’s new band, then for his old band and now with planned releases from a few old school favorites … Continue reading Album Review: Athey Music – Goodness & Mercy (Live)
On a shelf, above my desk, in my “office” sits four boxes filed in like books. The Rush Rediscovered box set, and the 40th anniversary super deluxe editions of A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres and Permanent Waves. I opened them … Continue reading Album Review: Rush – Moving Pictures 40th Anniversary
Attention all Rush fans of the Solar FederationAttention all Rush fans of the Solar FederationAttention all Rush fans of the Solar Federation… Alex Lifeson’s new band sounds nowhere close to his former band. In fact, Envy of None isn’t really … Continue reading Album Review: Envy of None – Self-titled
With a year off and nothing to do, 2021 unleashed a torrent of new music as many bands used the forced lockdown of 2020 to write new music. Veteran bands were especially prominent this year as aging rockers rolled back … Continue reading Top 10 Best Albums of 2021
For review of the Goodness & Mercy LIVE album, click here. Leave it to a new Christian group to rise out of one of the most atheistic spots in the country. Portland, OR ranks as one of the top godless … Continue reading Album Review: Athey Music – Goodness & Mercy
Dream Theater, the masters of artistry rock, released their 15th album A View From the Top of the World last week (Oct. 22), just a seven song record but 70 minutes long in a progressive rock wonderment filled with speedy … Continue reading Album Review: Dream Theater – A View From the Top of the World
Why can’t Coldplay just be normal? BE NORMAL! Please be a normal rock band. Oh forget it. Coldplay released Music of the Spheres, today, their ninth album showing the band continuing a foray into more experimental music far different from … Continue reading Album Review: Coldplay – Music of the Spheres
I’m not sure, but I may have just found a new favorite band. Twenty years late, like usual, but better late than never as Eclipse released their 10th album Wired today an 11 song 41-minute record that encapsulates all that … Continue reading Album Review: Eclipse – Wired
Yes. Or maybe, Yes? Yes, the band, released The Quest, their 22nd album last week (Oct. 1) and first in seven years, an 11 song 61 minute record that features one of the band’s best. Yes! Don’t get too excited. … Continue reading Album Review: Yes – The Quest
Jeremy Camp released When You Speak last week (Sept. 24), his 13th album that takes a sudden departure from his normal fare with blistering guitar solos, head-banging chords and lots of swearing throughout the 13-song 45 minute record. I guess … Continue reading Album Review: Jeremy Camp – When You Speak
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