NEW HORIZONS SERIES 2023 – HOSS THOMPSON / THIRTEEN STARS
For the ninth calendar year, we kicked off 2023 with our New Horizons series – a series of more than 70 artist interviews shorts – giving each act an opportunity to discuss hopes, plans and dreams for the year ahead. A small selection of these interviews have been added here for listen again, together they […]
NEW HORIZONS SERIES 2023 – MARSHALL POTTS
For the ninth calendar year, we kicked off 2023 with our New Horizons series – a series of more than 70 artist interviews shorts – giving each act an opportunity to discuss hopes, plans and dreams for the year ahead. A small selection of these interviews have been added here for listen again, together they […]
Twisted Illusion: ‘Upstairs To Optimism’
If success in rock music was all about musical merit, technical ability and good arrangement then this band would already be huge.
NEW HORIZONS SERIES 2023 – AS SIRENS FALL
In the coming weeks, we’ll be adding interviews from the whole New Horizons series. Now in its ninth annual season, we start the year having a quick chat with rising bands on their hopes and dreams for the year ahead. Sometimes serious, sometimes silly – we aim to bring some positive cheer each January for […]
NEW HORIZONS SERIES 2023 – BLUE NATION
In the coming weeks, we’ll be adding interviews from the whole New Horizons series. Now in its ninth annual season, we start the year having a quick chat with rising bands on their hopes and dreams for the year ahead. Sometimes serious, sometimes silly – we aim to bring some positive cheer each January for […]
NEW HORIZONS SERIES 2023 – VIOLET BLEND
In the coming weeks, we’ll be adding interviews from the whole New Horizons series. Now in its ninth annual season, we start the year having a quick chat with rising bands on their hopes and dreams for the year ahead. Sometimes serious, sometimes silly – we aim to bring some positive cheer each January for […]
April Albums Review
For April, I have found it extremely difficult to choose Album of the Month – and this is often the real challenge with just picking one album a month to review.
Ellis Mano Band – ‘Luck Of the Draw’
Imagine Joe Cocker, Dire Straits, Van Morrison, Toto and Chris Rea all having an impromptu late-night jam – the result might sound a bit like the new studio album from Ellis Mano Band – out on 24th February.
DeadBlondeStars – Metamorphosis
This new album is a powerhouse – the definition of hard rock for a modern age, with a brooding darkness, raw menace and tension that fits the troubled times we live in.
JD SIMO – ‘SONGS FROM THE HOUSE OF GREASE’
Authenticity over invention, truth over hype – we start 2023 with a studio album that takes us right back to the roots of rock n roll and blues; a performance album where the honesty and the skill of great playing reminds us what the heart and soul of guitar music is all about.