In incendiary brilliance of Jethro Tull’s follow up to the magnificent “This Was” is staggering. Totally veering away from the jazzy blues of their debut, the band set up an album comprising mainly of rock, folk and classical. The album starts with the full on crunchy riff-fest of “New day yesterday”, a style which is […] Continue reading →

Alan Stivell, from Brittany, is by far one of my all-time favorite Celtic artists, and he had quite a varied career from rock-oriented material to New Age and everything in between. Renaissance of the Celtic Harp, known in France as Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique, obviously focuses on the Celtic harp. This out of the […] Continue reading →

Getting To This, Blodwyn Pig’s second opus, features Mick Abrahams (formerly of Jethro Tull) meeting acid and fusing it with his unique blues style. This album also shows the band as having a reflective side, thus creating the epic “San Francisco Sketches”, and single handedly creating prog rock (no, it wasn’t King Crimson folks!) The […] Continue reading →

Eloy was one of Germany’s top prog rock bands, but at the same time, they often received a lot of criticisms as well, especially with leader Frank Bornemann, and the fact he always sung in English. Anyway, here’s a discography of the band, and my reviews on each on them: – Eloy (1971) Debut with […] Continue reading →

1994 would be a year we would never forget, and for many bands it would see the death of milestone in modern music, the unforgivable grunge era was dead. But from the ashes still burned the passion and the meaning to which many musicians are discovering once more. The Vines have most certainly taken this […] Continue reading →

Sensations’ Fix has already been covered here through Fragments of Light and Finest Finger. Now here’s a review for their second album, Portable Madness, released later the same year as the amazing Fragments of Light. While Fragments of Light was mainly a Franco Falsini project with only Richard Ursillo and Keith Edwards contributing only the […] Continue reading →

June 2005 by Eric Saeger Eric is a former contributor to Boston Rock, Factsheet Five, The Portsmouth Herald (NH) and the seminal San Francisco punk fanzine Why Music Sucks. Ghost Orgy, “Lullabies for Lunatics” (Thoth Music) In “Lullabies for Lunatics,” Filipina hottie Dina Concina has come up with some of the most misfit mall-goth in […] Continue reading →

For those who have never have been to the North Country Faire in Northern Alberta, Canada it is a hard event to describe. It is a solstice celebration with short nights (dark for 4 hours) and some of the trippiest people you could ever meet. It is four days of camping, constant music, sleep deprivation, […] Continue reading →

This is a great little river town. You can hear live R&B and old time rock every Wednesday and on the weekend coming from the local night clubs,and the river is a great place to spend the day hiking fishing swiming boating and horse back riding. Then spend the night partying at Lenora’s Ghost. Continue reading →

The still brilliant examination of one man’s life in the balance, 12 Angry Men irrevocably alters one’s perceptions of the trial by jury process. With a worried gaze, the defendant (John Savoca) pensively stares at the retreating backs of his jury. On trial for pre-meditated murder, he will be sent to the chair if a […] Continue reading →