When the Levee Breaks: Led Zeppelin’s Running History of Legal Accusations
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin has never been a band devoid of controversy; from Zeppelin’s earliest days, they’ve been tagged by some as musical thieves, “borrowing” lyrics and melodies to fit their own...
View ArticleNazareth, ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Telephone’– Album Review
This, the 23rd release from Scottish blues rockers Nazareth, is a bit of a paradox. Here’s the good: the album is best thing the band’s done in quite some time, throwing down the gauntlet after a few...
View ArticleUriah Heep, ‘Outsider’– Album Review
Now 24 albums and 45 years deep into a career that hit its commercial peak during the early 1970’s, and down to one original member in guitarist Mick Box, no one would bat an eyelash if Uriah Heep was...
View ArticleOverkill, ‘White Devil Armory’– Album Review
One review during the mid-1990’s (memory has it as possibly 1994’s ‘W.F.O.’) tagged Overkill as “the Energizer bunnies of metal,” in reference to the battery commercials of the time where a...
View ArticleEric Clapton & Friends, ‘The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale’– Album Review
JJ Cale was one of those musicians exponentially more influential to other artists than he was a chart-blazer; or therefore, a household name. The legendary Oklahoma-born Cale, the man responsible for...
View ArticleGotthard, ‘Bang!’– Album Review
The End Records Gotthard’s 11th studio release, and their second record since the untimely 2010 passing of vocalist Steve Lee, sees the Swiss melodic rock giants reaching for a consistently heavy, yet...
View ArticleHalestorm, ‘Into the Wild Life’– Album Review
Halestorm The case can be made that Halestorm has always been always been more of an “edgy” band than an outright “heavy” band. Frontwoman Lzzy Hale and company have continued to be categorized on both...
View ArticleWhitesnake, ‘The Purple Album – Album Review
Frontiers It should be noted that ‘The Purple Album’ is not a typical Whitesnake album, per se. It is a powerful David Coverdale vehicle, no doubt, but the record consists solely of re-recorded tracks...
View ArticleTop 10 John Sykes Whitesnake Songs
Photo Credit: John Sykes Creating one of the most sonically defiant tones of the 1980’s by plugging a 1978 Les Paul Custom straight into a Marshall JCM 800 head, John Sykes’ style is instantly...
View ArticleNeil Young, ‘The Monsanto Years’– Album Review
Reprise You’d think at age 69, Neil Young might resign himself to a twilight-career sampling of revisiting past glories, cashing in on strumming a string and blowing a harp to the umpteenth strain of...
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