Want your own tunes reviewed?

Do you want your band’s material reviewed? Are you a signed or unsigned band? Do you have a couple of tracks you recorded at home with a beat box, your guitar & a few midi-synths? Do you know someone who might have answered yes to any of these questions?
If you answered “yes” to any of [...]

Shedding Water: Opeth

Opeth, another Swede band, originally formed in Stockholm in 1990, with  David Isberg & Mikael Ã…kerfeldt as its primary front men. During Opeth’s early years, the band had a decidedly Death Metal vein. However, after a good part of the ’90s went by, several lineup changes & almost a handful of albums released, Opeth started [...]

more prog rock reviews to come

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I’ve been itching to give a couple of recently discovered albums from Beardfish, Pure Reason Revolution, King Crimson & Opeth a thorough listening. I discovered Beardfish, PRR & Opeth through recommendations and good reviews form the Dream Theater crowd. I’ve recently reviewed Sleeping In Traffic Part 1 from the Swedish band Beardfish, and part 2 [...]

Beardfish: Lessons for sleeping in traffic 101

Beardfish, the Swedish progressive rock band formed in 2001, boasts a style closer to their 1970’s genre peers. Having had two independent release, they were eventually signed up by InsideOut Music, pumping out two additional albums -the first one of which we are reviewing here: Sleeping in Traffic Part 1 

The band has received praise from [...]

AC/DC @ American Airlines Center in Dallas

You can chalk my first concert for the year 2009: I finally witnessed the Australian hard rock in their full glory -or whatever they’ve got in them at age 50.
AC/DC’s line up: Malcolm Young (rhythm guitar), Angus Young (lead guitar), Brian Johnson (vocals), Cliff Williams (bass guitar); Phil Rudd (drums) have been rocking the world [...]