CD/DVD Reviews

Blues Legacy's "Lost & Found" SeriesPublished in The Message For The Week, June 11, 2008
British jazz giant Chris Barber was largely responsible for bringing many of the legendary American blues artists to European and U.K. concert halls for the first time in the 1950’s, including such legends as Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters.

Blue Tiger: Blue Tiger's "Untamed Spirit"Published In The Message For The Week, June 18, 2008
New England glam–rockers Blue Tiger have been around the block a few times in their day and now, after nearly two decades on the self, are back and finally getting the opportunity to officially release their music internationally... and it’s been a long time coming!

All My Loving: Tony Palmer's "All You Need Is Love"Published in The Message For The Week, May 1, 2008. Music fans everywhere – not rock and roll fans, not jazz fans, not blues, metal or pop fans, but simply music fans – pick up a copy of Tony Palmer's award–winning All You Need Is Love because simply put, it is a classic and must have for any music DVD collection.

Plastic Crimewave Sound: "No Wonder Land"Posted on Get Ready To Rock.com Website
The Chicago–based Plastic Crimewave Sound is a band that is hard to describe. How about; a spaced out, nightmarish, psychedelic punk band. Of course that does not nearly begin to describe the scope of this band, but you get the idea.

Flipper Live, 1980-81Published In The Message For The Week, March 12, 2008
San Francisco's Flipper was one of the true, unpretentious West Coast punk bands of the late 70's and early 80's. A band that did not look to play the part visually or even musically, because they knew the true essence of the genre was their attitude and minimalist style that would ultimately leave their smeared finger prints all over the face of the punk music landscape.

TAD: Busted Circuits And Ringing EarsPublished in The Message For The Week, February, 2008
The Seattle–based TAD was one of those bands that never made it big commercially, but influenced many other much more notable bands such as Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney with their heavy, ringing–loud style of grungy metal.

MORGLBLPublished in The Message For The Week, January 30, 2008
The progressive-metal-fusion trio MORGLBL recently release their third CD titled
Grotesk, an all-instrumental affair on the New Jersey-based Laser's Edge record label.
Hailing from France, guitarist Christophe Godin, drummer Jean Pierre Frelezeau and bassist Ivan Rougny successfully combine fusion rock, intricate, jazzy passages and a little off beat humor to create a style of music that will appeal to a broad pallet of listeners.

Secret OysterPublished In The Message For The Week, January 16, 2006
There is a legendary fusion jazz-rock band from Denmark who after 30 years apart, reformed last year to perform at Nearfest in Bethlehem, PA, an annual festival that showcases bands of the all-too-often overlooked genre of fusion, or progressive music.

Curbside LogoCurbside's Galvanize The Zeitgeist,
Curbside features the enduring and creative spirits of guitarist and bassist Donovan Hernandez and the percussion and effects of Gorge Ortega, friends and band mates since their high school days in a band called Red Halo.

Marrillion's "Somewhere Else"Published In Goldmine Magazine, June, 2007
Marillion is one of those bands that never really gets the credit they deserve. Originally riding the resurgent wave of the progressive rock movement in the early 80's with their flamboyant front man Fish, the band eventually shifted to a much more melodic, intelligent rock sound over the last 20 or so years, led by current singer/songwriter Steve Hogarth.