Latest articles by Neil Jeffries
The Dirty Knobs sound like old friends on Wreckless Abandon
Mike Campbell’s ridiculously named hobby band The Dirty Knobs step into the limelight on Wreckless Abandon
Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons refuse to relent on We’re The Bastards
It's episode two of a bastard family affair on Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons' We’re The Bastards
Reb Beach pleases the jazz-rock crowd on A View From The Inside
Reb Beach's A View From The Inside is an instrumental shred-fest from the former Winger and latterday Whitesnake guitarist
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown's Pressure is a true coming of age
Backed into a corner in the fourth round, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown come out fighting on Pressure
The Strange And True Story of Foreigner 4
Over budget, out of studio time, Mutt Lange and Mick Jones locking horns: so how did Foreigner 4 become the band's defining album?
Deep Purple's Whoosh!: confident, mature, and superb
And still they rise. With Bob Ezrin producing again on Whoosh!, Deep Purple have fun, stretch out and shine brighter
The Story Behind The Song: Mary Long by Deep Purple
A song with a lyric that merged Mary Whitehouse's infamous clean-up campaign with tensions caused by Ritchie Blackmore.
Vega: Grit Your Teeth - all the hallmarks of vintage Bon Jovi
Grit Your Teeth, that difficult sixth album from Vega: sometimes very different, sometimes the same, always good
The Story Behind The Song: Profession Of Violence by UFO
It's a UFO tradition for the hard rockers to feature a ballad on each album. So for 1981's The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent, Phil Mogg turned to the murderous Kray twins for inspiration.
Rory Gallagher's Check Shirt Wizard - a crackling addition to a rich live canon
A battered Strat. A check shirt. Rory Gallagher wore them both well, as a new live album recorded in 1977 shows
Ginger Wildheart: a guide to the best albums
The best of a man with many strings to his bow: brilliantly memorable hard rock with The Wildhearts, bleeding-heart confessionals under his own name, and plenty in between
Michael Monroe's One Man Gang: in any sane world, a hit record
Michael Monroe is back on a new label for solo album number nine, One Man Gang
Thunder's Greatest Hits: file next to Bad Company, Thin Lizzy and UFO
Thunder milk their 30th anniversary on The Greatest Hits and produce nothing but cream
The Wildhearts' Renaissance Men is dark, heavy... and triumphant
The Wildhearts' first album in 10 years, Renaissance Men, ticks all the right boxes – arriba!
Sammy Hagar: Danger Zone Collectors Edition album review
Ex-Montrose, pre-Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar seeks solo success
Def Leppard - Volume One album review
The first in a series of four boxed sets covering the band’s career to date: the Steve Clark years
Reef - Revelation album review
After the blink of an eye that lasted 18 years, Reef are back with their fifth album
Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water box set review
A bells-and-whistles box set of late Yes bassist’s solo album
Rick Parfitt – Over And Out review
Postumous first solo album from the late Status Quo guitarist is a fitting sign-off.
Michael Schenker Fest - Resurrection album review
Ace guitarist overshadowed in yet another second coming
Rush - A Farewell To Kings – 40th Anniversary album review
In which three Toronto longhairs become the only men ever to emerge stronger from a trip into a black hole...
