If it’s an even-numbered year, it’s a safe bet that guitarist Torben Waldorff will have a new album out, and it’s a similarly sound assumption that such a record will be well-conceived, mellifluous, and briskly performed. You May Also Like: Torben Waldorff – Holiday On Fire (2017) Sebastian Noelle –Read More

The temptation, with a child prodigy, is to cut him some slack. Lost in the wonder of miniature virtuosity, we tend to forgive the small slip up, the easy cliche. No such accommodations are needed for Esteban Castro You May Also Like: Chick Corea – ‘The Montreux Years’ (2022) ChickRead More

Glass Hammer, riding a wave of interest as its lead singer also serves a stint in Yes, is set to issue an epic new project called Perilous on October 23, 2012 — the American prog rock act’s most ambitious concept album yet. You May Also Like: On the Joy, andRead More

Jeff Lynne has gone in depth on what drove him to refashion some of his most famous moments with the Electric Light Orchestra in a new album for Frontiers called Mr. Blue Sky. You May Also Like: Jeff Lynne’s ELO, August 15, 2018: Shows I’ll Never Forget When Jeff Lynne’sRead More

Into a world of endless hype for every new project steps Ritchie Blackmore, whose band Deep Purple was recently announced as a nominee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You May Also Like: Deep Purple – InFinite (2017) Why Deep Purple’s ‘Who Do We Think We Are?’ DeservesRead More

As Steve Hackett prepares to release his second set of reimagined Genesis songs, following 1996’s Watcher of the Skies, it’s confession time You May Also Like: Steve Hackett, “In the Skeleton Gallery” from The Night Siren (2017): One Track Mind A Genesis Prog Lineup: Improbable But Not Impossible Steve HackettRead More

CAUTION: Contains perilous and daring musical adventures. Do not attempt. —Warning on back cover of Scott Robinson Doctette’s Bronze Nemesis CD You May Also Like: Jeff Cosgrove, Scott Robinson + Ken Filiano – Hunters & Scavengers (2018) Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Barefoot In The Head (2017)

You can count on the Jigsaw Seen to deliver a stocking stuffed with ear candy during the holidays and, on this year’s offering Gifted, the Los Angeles band continues to scale new and exciting artistic heights. You May Also Like: Tom Shotton – ‘Forever Home’ (2021) Walter Becker, “Just OneRead More

So this week the Rolling Stones had the unmitigated, rock-star pompous audacity to release a new single as part of an announcement about their forthcoming 50th anniversary greatest hits package You May Also Like: Rolling Stones – ‘Tattoo You: 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition’ (2021) The Rolling Stones – SuckingRead More

“Doom and Gloom,” the Rolling Stones’ first new song in more than six years, finds Mick Jagger at his preening, taking-no-shit best — bitching about people who bitch, spittle-spewing like old times. You May Also Like: How the Rolling Stones Got Their Mojo Back With ‘A Bigger Bang’ Why ‘OutRead More