Julian Cope rediscovers melody on mischievous 37th solo album Friar Tuck
Sarcasm and actual tunes as one of rock’s true one-offs resurfaces
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Mark Tremonti finds a way to expand his palette on The End Will Show Us How
The End Will Show Us How is the sixth album from Creed/Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti's side-project
Asia upset the prog purists and delight their bank managers on freakishly successful debut album
Featuring members of Yes, ELP and King Crimson, Asia were billed as a prog rock supergroup but kept it concise, to enormous success
The Temperance Movement don't reinvent the wheel on A Deeper Cut, but they do keep it spinning
A Deeper Cut was the last album The Temperance Movement made before parting ways with now-returned frontman Phil Campbell
Keel struggle for greatness on 1986 album The Final Frontier
With Gene Simmons in the production chair, Keel conjure up a small batch of decent headbangers and not much else
Still Barking is 20 CDs of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band comedy genius, but it may baffle younger folk
A weighty celebration of Monty Python-preceding trad/psych satirists
Iron Maiden successfully embrace synthesisers on Somewhere In Time
Released between two major metal milestones, Somewhere In Time is something of an underrated fan favourite
"I don't know how much time I have left": Disney+ documentary Elton John: Never Too Late finds Reg in reflective rather than acerbic form
Elton John muses on his life, streaming now
Neil Young's haunting On the Beach is bleak, stoned and bleary
Shakey gets the blues on this limited edition 50th anniversary vinyl reissue
Were Detective the 1970s Greta Van Fleet?
Michael Des Barres leads Detective through an album that owes much to their Led Zeppelin paymasters
Friends of the late, great Mark Lanegan - including Josh Homme, Dave Gahan, Chrissie Hynde and Bobby Gillespie - assemble in London for an emotional celebration of a truly singular talent
On what would have been Mark Lanegan's 60th birthday, friends and peers salute a much-missed musical maverick
Tom Waits' The Heart Of A Saturday Night still sounds smoky on anniversary coloured vinyl
Be-bop, beat and ballads
True believers DeWolff express their love of music on Muscle Shoals
Soul power: Dutch rockersDeWolff tap into the musical ley lines on tenth studio album
Temple Of The Dog's eulogy for a fallen friend still shines
Rooted in tragedy, Temple Of The Dog's 10 original tracks are a kind of catharsis through music
Sweet's early classics shine bright on the irresistible Isolation Boulevard
Glam royalty Sweet buff up their crown jewels
The stars shine on Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 collection
Two nights, four CDs, one six-string feast
Crippled Black Phoenix revisit the past on The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature
The 20th album from Underground linchpins Crippled Black Phoenix comes with a second disc of covers
SKAM make the great leap forward on fourth album From The Depths
English trio SKAM find an intensity of their own on From The Depths
A 'new wave knees-up': Squeeze, live at The Roundhouse, London
Squeeze celebrate 50 years at The Roundhouse, London
