Scorpions: World Wide Live - Album Of The Week Club review
Recorded in The US, France and Germany, Scorpions' second live album World Wide Live showcased the band at their pyramid-building, fearsomely well-drilled peak
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His Lordship: volatile punk’n’roll with amphetamine-eyed grunt
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Shinedown paint a bleak, chilling picture of the future on Planet Zero
A concept album about social media, cancel culture, and growing toxic intolerance? Step right this way!
Steely Dan: Can't Buy A Thrill - Album Of The Week Club review
Steely Dan's Can't Buy A Thrill was the debut album from two of music's great smart-asses, or as one reviewer puts it, "Yacht rock captained by two cranky eggheads"
Porcupine Tree's gorgeous comeback album is an elegant and accomplished treasure
Closure/Continuation is the much delayed eleventh album from progressive figureheads Porcupine Tree
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The solo side of Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie celebrated with a solid but flawed collection
Black Stone Cherry join the ranks of the Royal Albert Hall legends
Black Stone Cherry's Live From The Royal Albert Hall… Y’all is a momentary suspension of real life in favour of incendiary live performance
Supersonic Blues Machine are the sound of modern blues in the ascendant
Littered with special guests, Voodoo Nation by Supersonic Blues Machine sets the modern blues bar ever higher
Canadian post-hardcore kings Alexisonfire have made a comeback album to be proud of
It's 13 years since Alexisonfire released Old Crows / Young Cardinals, but new album Otherness is a grand return
Brian Jonestown Massacre: still frayed, still imperfect, still out on their own
Anton Newcombe and Brian Jonestown Massacre return with another set of down-and-dirty rock’n’roll
If you like deep-thinking Canadian art-rock, then Motherhood might be for you
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Petrol Girls' Baby is an exhilarating, incandescent rebel yell of an album
Austria-based British agitpunks Petrol Girls sharpen their hooks on third album Baby
Red Hot Chili Peppers get the funk back to basics in Manchester
What happened at John Frusciante's first UK show with Red Hot Chili Peppers in almost 15 years
Ecstatic, chaotic, intoxicating: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis reclaims the King. But is it too good to be true?
Thought Elvis was a bloated old hack in a rhinestone-studded jumpsuit? Witness Elvis 2.0: the barrier-smashing revolutionary they tried to cancel…
Ghost at Hellfest: more menacing and seductive than ever, despite the early finish
Even with his voice failing, Tobias Forge managed to conjure up a triumphant headline set at Hellfest 2022
Nine Inch Nails at the Eden Project: what happened when Trent and co played the world's biggest greenhouse
With heatwaves, thunderstorms and sunset rainbows, NIN's return to the UK was an epic of blockbuster proportions
Santana: Abraxas - Album Of The Week Club review
Fusing Afro-Latin rhythms and West Coast rock more more successfully than previously, Santana's Abraxas was also the soundtrack to at least two European back-packing adventures
The Smile have just released the best Radiohead album in over a decade
Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood stay close to home with mighty new jazz-rock trio The Smile
