If you were to take Southern rock and put it in a blender with British blues rock, then add a dollop of Vegemite, you’d get Kahvas Jute.

The Claudio Scolari Project raises the stakes for ‘Opera 8,’ an especially adventurous effort from a band for which adventure is their calling card.

Everything on Nick Millevoi’s meditative ‘Moon Pulses’ points to conceiving a single idea and a single-minded determination to bring that idea to fruition.

Mike Tiano interviews Steve McKnight, whose GayC/DC tribute band brings together the many eras of AC/DC – but with a decidedly different slant.

If record execs and promoters had any idea what to do with Dragon, this fun, accessible New Zealand power pop band could have been big in America.

Now out in complete, remastered and legal form, ‘Poppin’ in Paris: Live at L’Olympia 1972′ should serve to get Cannonball Adderley’s final era the attention it deserves.

I saw Dickey Betts during a unique era for the Allman Brothers Band: Duane Allman was gone but bassist Berry Oakley was still alive.

For the Christian Marien Quartett, the new album ‘How Long Is Now’ means not just living in the current moment, but thriving and getting full enjoyment from it.

Released 15 years ago this month, Bob Dylan’s loose and approachable ‘Together Through Life’ recalled a bottle-passing night of music among old friends.

You simply can’t discuss Aussie pub rock without mentioning Cold Chisel.