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Album Review : Cory Marks – Nashville Mornings

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CORY MARKS – NASHVILLE MORNINGS EP
Better Noise Music 

Mixing the twang of country music with the hard-hitting stomp of rock & roll, Canada’s Cory Marks made his debut with the July 2020 album Who I Am.   

Full of autobiographical storytelling, guitar-driven anthems, party-drinking songs, and breakup ballads, the album is rooted in the influence of his hometown in Ontario.  Whenever he wasn’t drumming along to songs by Deep Purple, Ozzy Osbourne, and Rush, he was listening to his parents’ country records, developing a deep appreciation for outlaws like Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard. 

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Album Review : New Wave Of Classic Rock – Volume One

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NEW WAVE OF CLASSIC ROCK – VOLUME ONE
Released – 23rd July 2021

The NWOCR group was set up in Oct 2017 by a bunch of like-minded music lovers in the UK who felt at the time there were many new bands coming through playing new music influenced by the classic rock bands of the 70’s, 80’s,90’s and noughties, and many of them deserved a wider audience.   

The timeline for bands to be featured in the group is that they have not released anything before 2010. 

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Album Review : The Damn Truth – Now Or Nowhere

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THE DAMN TRUTH – NOW OR NOWHERE
Released – May 2021

Montreal-based rock band The Damn Truth have recently bubbled up from an underground presence with the release of their third album, Now Or Nowhere, mostly produced by the legendary Bob Rock who got heavily involved in the recording process by introducing the band to a range of vintage guitars and amps to tie in with the 1970’s attitude and live sound.

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Album Review : Midnite City – Itch You Can’t Scratch

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MIDNITE CITY
ITCH YOU CAN’T SCRATCH
Released – June 11th 

Since bursting out onto the scene with a vengeance in 2017, Midnite City have taken on the world and hustled themselves to the top of the pile to be considered one of the top modern exponents of quality melodic rock.  Their debut self-titled album was a cracker, with Harry Hess mastering their demos, the full band being pulled together, and the formal release gave enough support for the band to be considered as leaders of a resurgence in commercial AOR hair-metal heaven! 

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EP Review : The Lost Search Party – An Invitation To…

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THE LOST SEARCH PARTY
EP – AN INVITATION TO….
Released – May 28th 2021

In keeping with so many bands over the last year thanks to COVID-19, Kent rock band The Lost Search Party have had a tricky time recording and preparing their self-financed debut EP ready for release.  As their social media post says it’s been a case of “5 songs, 4 recording studios, 3 national lockdowns, 2 bass players to produce 1 EP!  After this lengthy preparation, it’s now here.  I picked up on the first single, Getaway last week and was immediately attracted to the catchy hook-laden guitars, and requested a copy of the EP to review.

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Album Review : DELLACOMA – BLOOD

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DELLACOMA – BLOOD
Released – 7th July 2021

As someone who first came across Dellacoma fronting Sydney rock band Sunset Riot in 2012 or thereabouts, I have always been interested in seeing what he has been doing – and the first solo album South Of Everything that came out in 2015 was a terrific opening release.

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Live Review & Photos : Blues on the Mountain – 24 April 2021

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A regular event in the Mangrove Mountain hall in the past 8 years, thanks to the enthusiasm of promoter Ryan Howard, an evening of Blues / Folk / Roots music from a range of local and national artists, this weekend saw the multi-talented Ash Grunwald head the bill, and he agreed to do two shows to assist with the COVID-19 capacity restrictions.

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Album Review : The L.A. Maybe – Dirty Damn Tricks

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THE L.A. MAYBE
DIRTY DAMN TRICKS
Released – March 26 2021

The L.A. Maybe is a 6-piece rock ‘n’ roll band hailing from the southern heat of the Carolinas.  If you’re a fan of Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC, or Van Halen, with a touch of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Black Crowes then you will feel right at home adding these guys to your record collection. 

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Album Review : The Treatment – Waiting For Good Luck

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THE TREATMENT
Waiting For Good Luck
Released – April 9 2021

Waiting For Good Luck is the fifth full-length album from British hard rockers The Treatment, who have now cemented their position in the rock world in their own right, over the past 12 years and 4 previous album releases. Showcasing an intense sonic power only hinted at thus far, the band is truly firing on all cylinders now with the 2021 release.  

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Album Review : Chez Kane – (Self-Titled Debut Album)

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CHEZ KANE
Released – 12th March 2021
Frontiers Music

A talented, young vocalist who fronts, with her two sisters, the UK melodic rock band Kane’d, Chez Kane was brought to the attention of the label after conversations with Danny Rexon of Crazy Lixx about the possibility of him scouting and producing some exciting new talent. Subsequently, Danny started working on some demos with Chez and the label did not pass up the opportunity to collaborate on this solo album as a songwriter and producer, that also happened to mastered by one Erik Mårtensson from Swedish AOR monsters, Eclipse.

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Album Review : THE DUST CODA – Mojo Skyline

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THE DUST CODA – Mojo Skyline

Release Date – 26th March 2021

The Press Release for The Dust Coda‘s forthcoming album Mojo Skyline tells us that it was recorded at Modern World Studios with the multi-platinum, award-winning producer Clint Murphy (Manic Street Preachers, Thunder, Devilskin), and offers a plenitude of tracks that leap across the spectrum of rock’n’roll, containing half a decade’s worth of the band’s raw soul and innermost demons. 

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Album Review : Joel Hoekstra’s 13 – Running Games

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JOEL HOEKSTRA’S 13
RUNNING GAMES
Released – 12th Feb 2021

Running Games is the follow up to the Dying to Love album that was the opening Joel Hoekstra’s 13 record – as a full band line-up rather than the instrumental solo records he released prior to that. 

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Album Review : THUNDER – All The Right Noises

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THUNDER
All The Right Noises
Released – March 12th 2021

Thunder may be the band who will just never give up – having been a fan from the earliest Terraplane days, and having been lucky enough to be present at the 10th Anniversary “farewell” tour in 1999, and the 20 Years & Out show at Hammersmith Odeon in 2009 (despite moving to Australia in 1998) and even getting to shoot the sold-out Hammersmith show in March 2015, we felt thrilled to get the band to Australia in 2017 for some intimate, but very raucous club shows.

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Album Review : Jim Kirkpatrick – Ballad of a Prodigal Son

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JIM KIRKPATRICK
Ballad of A Prodigal Son
Released – Oct 2020

I bought this album when first released – Jim Kirkpatrick is currently the lead guitarist of my favourite AOR band, FM, and has always offered a finely balanced melodic blues-rock tone to the live and recorded output of that wonderful band since he joined in 2008.

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EP Review : The Mercy Kills – New Rule

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THE MERCY KILLS – NEW RULE EP
Released 15th Feb 2021

This is an interesting piece of Melbourne’s rock’n’roll history that finally gets to see the light of day thanks to the team at Golden Robot Records.

New Rule is the debut EP by Melbourne dirty / sleaze rock band The Mercy Kills. Written and produced in 2010, this five-track release has strong elements of the four members influences, with elements of post-punk, grunge and rock ‘n’ roll.  TMK are proud that it stands strong, alongside the music they have produced over the ten years since.

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