"All Washed Up" is Cheap Trick's new album

When you think of power pop or bubblegum metal, one of the first names that springs to mind is Cheap Trick. Originally out of Rockford, Illi...

THE STORY OF A SONG: Thin Lizzy - "The Boys Are Back in Town"

Μπορεί να είναι δύσκολο να το πιστέψει κανείς, αλλά οι Thin Lizzy έφτασαν πολύ κοντά στο να απορρίψουν το τραγούδι που έμελλε να γίνει το πι...

"The Revenge Of Alice Cooper" : Cooper is back on July, 2025

FIFTY-SIX years on from 1969’s Pretties For You , neither Vincent Damon Furnier or his transgressive, kohl-eyed alter ego seem to have aged ...

Nils Lofgren - "Blue with Lou" : A tribute to Lou Reed

The Lou of the title is of course Lou Reed, who Nils Lofgren first collaborated with in 1979 on Reed’s The Bells and his own album Nils. The...

Golden Earring: ένα από τα κορυφαία ολλανδικά rock groups

Γνωστοί από τη μεγάλη εμπορική επιτυχία « Radar Love ”, οι Golden Earring μαζί με τους Focus και τους The Nits αποτέλεσαν τις μεγαλύτερες ro...

"There Is No Space For Us": Hawkwind move into burbling electronica

Classic 1970s Hawkwind songs used to start like Tangerine Dream and then quickly mutate into chugging Status Quo boogies, and a few tracks h...

Jethro Tull - "Curious Ruminant": Still rocking, but more gently now.

He’ll be 78 later this year, but with European tour dates ongoing and his third Tull album in under four years, Ian Anderson is on something...

Sweet – "Full Circle" : Glam survivors bow out in a blaze of AOR

     Ha lf a century on from their commercial peak, there’s a sense that Sweet (definite article dispensed with way back when) are a band p...

Sheer Mag: 70s noise rock brought today

Philadelphians who kept their powder dry for an imminent fusillade of 70s noise rock. Matt Palmer is reflecting on Sheer Mag’s early days of...

Οι December's Children, που ήταν παιδιά του Clevelant

Οι December ' s Children ήταν ένα από τα δημοφιλέστερα groups του Clevelant κατά τη δεκαετία του '60. Ξεκίνησαν  το φθινόπωρο του ...

THE STORY OF A SONG: ZZ Top - La Grange

ZZ Top's song "La Grange" was first released on their 1973 album Tres Hombres , celebrating a real-life brothel called The Chi...

THE STORY OF A SONG: Kiss - "Rock And Roll All Nite"

At the end of 1974, Kiss were in trouble. Their self-titled debut album had shifted just 75.000 copies. The follow-up. Hotter Than Hell, had...

«Once Bitten, Twice Shy», οι δυο εκτελέσεις μιας rock επιτυχίας

Το «Once Bitten, Twice Shy» ήταν ένα τραγούδι που είχε γράψει ο Ian Hunter το 1975 και είχε φτάσει μέχρι το Νο 14 του αγγλικού chart, ενώ εί...

THE STORY OF A SONG: Deep Purple - "Smoke On The Water"

     Deep Purple's Mark II line-up released many great songs, but none have echoed down the years like Smoke On The Water. Released in 1...

Wrong Side of Paradise: 5th album for the meta-Thin Lizzy group Black Star Riders

R iders come and go, but Ricky Warwick has been a constant with Black Star Riders for a decade now. Bass player Robbie Crane has been there ...

"Truth", Jeff Beck's masterpiece

Ξεφύλλιζα ;ένα τεύχος του περιοδικού Classic Rock που είχε αφιέρωμα στα 100 καλύτερα albums της δεκαετίας του 60 και πήγα να δω ποια ήταν τα...

Def Leppard - "Diamond Star Halos": είναι το καλύτερο rock album του 2022;

Οι Def Leppard γιόρτασαν τα 45 χρόνια τους στη μουσική με την κυκλοφορία το 2022 ενός πραγματικά εξαιρετικού album με τίτλο Diamond Star...

THE STORY OF A SONG: Rolling Stones - "Jumpin’ Jack Flash" (1968)

“ Jumpin’ Jack Flash bore down on the world in May 1968 like an emergency bulletin while Paris burned and America writhed in agony,...

ESSENTIAL ALBUMS (#38): The Who - "Who's Next" (1971)

“Who’s N ext” should have been a paradigm, a watershed, a groundbreaking extravaganza bursting through the bounds of what rock could, and h...

"Reason In Decline": Archers Of Loaf are back!

One-time indie slackers confront a changed world a quarter- century after split  Archers Of Loaf broke up in 1998, but an exploratory 2020 r...