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"One of the last genuine bluesmen out there – he is a legend and should be revered as such": Strong Persuader by Robert Cray - Album Of The Week Club review
Robert Cray's 1986 album Strong Persuader album took blues to the masses and sold more than two million copies in the US
"A full-scale solo stormer: a 90s grunge record made by a marauding horde of evil mutants": Mick Mars has made a would-be classic with The Other Side Of Mars
Former Mötley Crüe man Mick Mars' debut solo album The Other Side Of Mars is as dangerous as a black mamba in your pants
"A low- wattage washout, as if recorded by an Ace imposter": Ace Frehley fails to spark on 10,000 Volts
Ace Frehley's eighth solo album 10,000 Volts in a word: Shocking
"Wakeman's genius-level playing and careful modernising have given the music legitimate new life": Rick Wakeman reinvents his past on Live At The Palladium 2023
Live At The Palladium 2023 is a four CD set that revisits Rick Wakeman's classic solo works and Yes
"I wish you could feel what I feel, it's magical": Idles feel the love at joyous homecoming show in Bristol
Idles may have traded aggression and abrasion for melody and mindfulness on new album Tangk, but they're still a thrillingly liberating force of nature live
"As many recycled Led Zeppelin riffs as Kingdom Come or '80s Whitesnake with an even stronger whiff of cheese": Emotions In Motion by Billy Squier - Album Of The Week Club review
Buoyed by the success of breakthrough album Don’t Say No, Billy Squier teamed up once again with Queen producer Reinhold Mack to create 10 tracks of state of the art, radio-friendly pop rock
"His thirtieth studio album outside of Genesis, it's as wide-ranging as the catalogue that precedes it": Steve Hackett voyages to multiple ports on The Circus And The Nightwhale
Prog maestro and former Genesis man Steve Hackett extends his catalogue on wide-ranging solo album The Circus And The Nightwhale
"Listen to a tune, and three minutes later you're whistling the damn melody and mangling the lyrics": Blackberry Smoke's songwriting shines on Be Right Here
Blackberry Smoke's eighth album Be Right Here delivers stomp, soul, country, and rock and roll in equal measure
"Imagine, if you will, a long-lost UFO concept album about a seance gone awry": The Unexpected Guest by Demon - Album Of The Week Club review
The NWOBHM was a broad church, and Demon's second album The Unexpected Guest was more melodic than most
"The results rock with dynamic, dramatic vigour": The Pineapple Thief turn to concise structures on It Leads To This
Prog-leaning art rockers The Pineapple Thief self-edit in style on punchy 15th album It Leads To This
"Like Lee Hazelwood sleepwalking through a guest spot with The Cure circa Faith": The Telescopes' Growing Eyes Becoming String
Growing Eyes Becoming String is the 16th album from psychedelic shoegaze veterans The Telescopes
"Like a heavier Styx or a lighter Uriah Heep, but dressed like the Bee Gees": Angel by Angel - Album Of The Week Club review
Discovered by Gene Simmons and sold as a more wholesome alternative to Kiss, Angel's stage show was equally theatrical, but their music was a mix of pomp and prog
"The sonics are out of this world, as deep and resonant as Phil Mogg’s tonsils at the top of their game": The Deluxe Edition of UFO's Lights Out comes with vivacious and vital extras
UFO's sixth album Lights Out gets the traditional deluxe makeover, just don't believe the hype
"A record full of sprawling guitar solos, textual acoustics and steady drums": J Mascis finds new ways to express himself on What Do We Do Now
What Do We Do Now is beautiful, as we've come to expect from the Dinosaur Jr mainman
"There's a whiff of 'things were better in the 90s' along with the incense, but infectious tunes save the day": Kula Shaker's Natural Magick
Once again into the mystic, my friends, with the seventh album from psychedelic Britrockers Kula Shaker
"Tentative shavings from things we already own": Why the 50th anniversary edition of Band On The Run isn't essential, even if the original album is
Paul McCartney's mega-selling third post-Beatles album Band On The Run gets thoroughly de-belled and de-whistled
Dense, layered and pulsing with melody, Florence Black's Bed Of Nails is a remarkable album
Raucous yet soulful second album Bed Of Nails makes good on debut promise from Welsh rockers Florence Black
"It’s a rare chance to witness history being made, and it is a sight to behold." Steve Harris brings British Lion to London's Cart & Horses, the birthplace of Iron Maiden, for an emotional homecoming show
Steve Harris' British Lion take over the Cart & Horses for a triumphant show in London
