First published by Soundsphere Magazine http://www.spheremag.co.uk/reviews/54-cd/2519-cd-review-staind-staind September 2011 So; they’re back, then. Popular young persons’ beat combo, Staind, have arrived with album number seven. Intending, according to Mike Mushok on the band’s website, “…to explore some of the things we did on the last record and take them somewhere new for us”. It’s safe to say [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Officers : On The Twelve Thrones
Posted: 26th September 2011 by Harry in MUSICTags: Death In Vegas, Electronic, Industrial, Officers, On The Twelve Thrones, Tim Holmes
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First published by Soundsphere Magazine http://www.spheremag.co.uk/reviews/54-cd/2405-cd-review-officers-on-the-twelve-thrones September 2011 One of the year’s more eagerly anticipated debut releases, ‘On The Twelve Thrones’ arrives promising much. The release of Officers’ most recent EP ‘Co-Education’, gave notice that electronica had some new pretenders to its digital throne. The four cuts on that platter were a satisfying kaleidoscope of [...]
The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band : How I Go
Posted: 26th September 2011 by Harry in MUSICTags: Blues, Country, How I Go, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Midlands Rocks, Rock
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First published by Midlands Rocks, www.themr.co.uk September 2011 Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayall, Gary Moore, Walter Trout, Joe Bonamassa and a great many more have all, in their own ways, helped answer one of the burning musical questions of our times: can a white man play the blues? The answer, of course, is [...]
Fear and Loathing In Stapleford
Posted: 24th September 2011 by Harry in BLOG, LIFETags: Satanicus Maximus, SheWhoIsNeverWrong, Tales From The Zoo, The Spawn
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SheWhoIsNeverWrong has been battling a series of brain-head-face-related mystery aliments over the last few months. Part-migraine-part-head-thing-part-who-knows-fecking-what-thing, she’s undergone all manner of tests, scans, hospital visits and whatnot, only to now be told that a further monthly series of trial-and-error meds is the only remaining option. The local quack, displaying the sort of compassion and humanity [...]
Captain Horizon : El Nibre (E.P.)
Posted: 22nd September 2011 by Harry in MUSICTags: Alt.Rock, Captain Horizon, El Nibre, Prog
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A free four-track download E.P. from the region’s most idiosyncratic foursome? Oh, go on then. If we must. Slightly harder-edged, and a touch more contemplative than the soar-away, feel-good vibes of this year’s Radiostasis release, this is the multi-talented, multi-faceted Captain Horizon revealing yet another side to their beguiling musical persona. Recorded during those Radiostasis [...]
Black Country Communion : BCC2
Posted: 14th September 2011 by Harry in MUSICTags: BCC2, Black Country Communion, Glen Hughes, Jason Bonham, Joe Bonamassa, Midlands Rocks
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First published by Midlands Rocks www.themr.co.uk, September 2011 Listen to this album once. Then have a rummage through your loose change and select a coin. Now toss it in the air. Heads, you’ll hate it. Tails, you might like it. A bit. Maybe. You think… That seems to be the first impression consensus that has [...]