Longtime keyboardist Jonathan Cain says Journey’s music has an innocence, an essential lack of cynicism, that helps it to resonate across the generations. You May Also Like: How Journey Ended Its Underrated First Era With ‘Next’ Neal Morse Did It All (Again) on ‘Songs from November’
Aerosmith is in the run up a long-awaited new studio album, and then a world tour in 2013. After that, fans have to wonder if they can stick together. After all: Steven Tyler says he’ll then start work on a solo project. You May Also Like: Steven Tyler – We’reRead More
I’m not sure Ben Gibbard, recording his first-ever solo album away from Death Cab for Cutie, has ever sounded more alone. And in that scary freedom, in that essential stillness, he experiments in ways we haven’t heard before. You May Also Like: Death Cab for Cutie, “Summer Skin” from ‘Plans’Read More
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)
