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Album Review : Casey Barnes – Light It Up

April 30, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

CASEY BARNES
Light It Up
Released – Feb 25^th 2022

Casey Barnes has been around for more than 15 years now since appearing on Australian Idol in 2009, after releasing his debut album in 2007. Spending the next 10 years as a hard-working journeyman, recording EPs 3 more studio albums, he released Live As One in 2017 which spawned a couple of solid singles in Just Like Magic and The Way We Ride, as well as the video for the title track.

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Album Review : Lee Kernaghan – Live At Deni Ute Muster

April 19, 2022 LMM

Review by David Jackson

Goulburn Valley Country Music Festival 2022

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Released on April 15, 2022, to coincide with his birthday. Lee Kernaghan has provided his thousands of country fans with an opportunity to cruise the highway listening to his past thirty years of hits and memories.

Recorded Live in 2019 at, the Deni Ute Muster live is a compilation of Kernahans greatest hits recorded in one of the unique places on the planet.

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Album Review : THUNDER – Dopamine

April 17, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

THUNDER – Dopamine
Double LP
Released – April 29^th 2022 via BMG

Thunder may be the band who will just never give up – having been a fan from the earliest Terraplane days in the late 1980’s, and having been lucky enough to be present at the 10^th 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 Apollo 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 : FM – Thirteen

February 28, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

FM – THIRTEEN
Released March 18^th 2022
Frontiers Records

It is always a joy to get to hear a new FM album…….from the very first listen to that first FM record Indiscreet in 1986, having been a fan of Wildlife before then, and seeing them as the ultimate AOR support band over the next couple of years, including the epic Astoria show in 1987 with White Sister as the opening act.

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Album Review : Kris Barras Band – Death Valley Paradise

February 17, 2022 LMM

Review by Pete Coates – facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

KRIS BARRAS BAND – DEATH VALLEY PARADISE
Mascot Records
Release Date 4^th March 2022

Steamrolling out of the end of 2021, the Kris Barras Band have announced their brand-new album, Death Valley Paradise, along with their most anthemic, call-to-arms song to date, My Parade. The new album produced this time by Dean Weller (Enter Shikari, Bury Tomorrow, SiKth) will be released on 4th March 2022 via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group (Black Stone Cherry, Fozzy, Crobot).

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Album Review : The Karma Effect

January 25, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

THE KARMA EFFECT
Released – 18^th March 2022
TMR Rock Records

Debut albums are always really interesting to review, and while this one only has 8 songs on it, it delivers a solid punch. Closer to home for me is that the band are from my home town of Oxted in the UK, and are launching the album at one of my early watering holes – where us cocky 16 year olds could always get served!

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EP Review : NAKED GYPSY QUEENS – Georgiana

January 17, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

NAKED GYPSY QUEENS – Georgiana EP
Released – Feb 11^th
MASCOT LABEL GROUP

I heard the first release from this EP a few months ago and started raving about the band then – loving the vintage classic rock sound, heavily amplified blues, rock solid drums and a twin-guitar assault steeped in the likes of MC5, Free, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company – all brought up to date with some supercharged hooks that combines that true classic rock sound with a modern southern-rock swagger!

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Album Review : Wille and the Bandits – When The World Stood Still

January 10, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

WILLE & THE BANDITS – WHEN THE WORLD STOOD STILL
Release: 28^th Jan 2022
FAT TOAD RECORDS

Wille and the Bandits are a British-based band from Cornwall who play a mix of different genres spanning across the Blues, Rock, Roots and Folk rock styles, with a somewhat epic overall effect that channels the monstrous riffs of Led Zeppelin and the atmospheric warmth and depth of Pink Floyd, but all the time seeing the band push the boundaries of sound and rhythm to create a dynamic and unique sonic experience that should appeal to a broad range of classic and contemporary rock music fans.

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Album Review : Jack J Hutchinson – The Hammer Falls

January 5, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

JACK J HUTCHINSON – THE HAMMER FALLS
Release – 4^th Feb 2022

London-based guitarist / vocalist Jack J Hutchinson has been one of the busiest musicians out there during the COVID-19 pandemic, doing live streams, special edition recordings, cover versions (including an epic version of War Pigs) and released his last studio album – Who Feeds The Wolf – in Oct 2019, along with a “Live” album Who Feeds The Lockdown in 2020.

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Album Review : SCARLET REBELS – See Through Blue

January 2, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

SCARLET REBELS – See Through Blue
Released – 28 Jan 2022
Earache Records

I have been fortunate enough to get access to a whole host of albums in the past 18 months from the vibrant and booming rock scene in the UK in particular – whether NWOCR or otherwise, and as we roll into 2022, one of the first of the New Year releases has hit my in-box thanks to PK at TMR PR and Media.

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Album Review : Devil Electric – Godless

November 19, 2021 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

DEVIL ELECTRIC – Godless
Released – 12/11/21

Melbourne fuzz-rock band Devil Electric have just released their highly anticipated new album, Godless. The record is a collection of ideas and experiences that can simply be described as “the next evolution” of their sound. While keeping true to the band’s DNA, you’ll still find the heavy grooves and tones of 70’s inspired hard rock as Godless takes it one step further by peeling back to a rather more LoFi sound, a credit to producer Julian Schweitzer who worked with the band on the album.

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Album Review : L.A. GUNS – Checkered Past

November 9, 2021 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

L.A. GUNS – Checkered Past
Released – 12/11/21
Frontiers Music

Long running hard rockers L.A. Guns have announced the release of their new studio album, Checkered Past. Written and recorded while the world was still in the grips of the coronavirus pandemic, the new studio album sees Tracii Guns, Phil Lewis, and company continuing with the darker lyrical tone of the preceding studio albums, The Devil You Know and The Missing Peace, while incorporating their classic rock influences into the mix.

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Album Review : Groundbreaker – Soul To Soul

November 2, 2021 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

GROUNDBREAKER – Soul To Soul
Released – 12/11/21
Frontiers Music

I will never apologise for any inherent bias in a review, but I am happy to admit that Steve Overland has been able to do no wrong in my eyes, from the early days of Wildlife in 1980, through to FM who have been one my all-time favourite bands to the present day, and are still recording and playing live.

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Album Review : Smoking Martha – Universe

October 26, 2021 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

SMOKING MARTHA – UNIVERSE
Xelon Entertainment
Released – 3^rd December 2021

The rising diverse Brisbane alt-rock group Smoking Martha is set to release its new full-length studio album, Universe, this December via Xelon Entertainment. The official music video for the album’s second powerful single, Liquid Sunshine, is out now following the release of lead track, the fun and fiery Good Girls.

The Brisbanites have built up a strong cult following across the UK, Europe and Australia with their high energy performances.

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Album Review : The Screaming Jets – All For One (30th Anniversary)

October 24, 2021 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

SCREAMING JETS – ALL FOR ONE
(30^th Anniversary)

In 1990 five blokes from Newcastle called The Screaming Jets took the Aussie music scene by the scruff of the neck and gave a red-hot shake.

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