A special digi-pak presentation with an album and film of the Godfather of Garage, rocker Jesse Hector.
Collecting together all Jesse’s recordings made during the 1990’s , originally released across a spread of singles and various artist compilations, we present a garage rock album of resounding energy, attack and timeless quality. (more…)
Put Your Love in Me: Love Songs for the Apocalypse is the first greatest hits album released by punk/metal band The Plasmatics in 2002. (more…)
Salem Hill should be well known to visitors of this site. We’ve reviewed a great many of their albums and all but one have received a DPRP recommendation. Yet still I’m amazed when I have my proggy (and not at all nerdy) conversations with progressive rock aficionados just how few people have heard of them, let alone actually heard them. (more…)
Robin Beck (born November 7, 1954, Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer. She topped the singles chart in the UK in 1988, and Germany in 1989 with her single “First Time”, which had come to the public’s attention via its use in a Coca-Cola commercial. Other well known songs are “Save Up All Your Tears”, “In My Heart to Stay”, “Tears In the Rain” and “Close To You”. (more…)
Collection Best Video.Ratt (stylized as RΔTГ) is an American rock band that had significant commercial success in the 1980s, with their albums having been certified as gold, platinum, and multi-platinum by the RIAA. (more…)
Michael Schenker has appeared on quite a few live recordings over the years — tops undoubtedly being UFO’s Strangers in the Night and MSG’s One Night at Budokan. But 2008 saw an archival multi-disc set of live/vintage Schenker, Mad Axeman Live, and while it may not scale the same heights as the UFO album (which is considered one of the top live hard rock/metal releases of all time), it is probably the best live solo Schenker release yet. (more…)
Actually, this isn’t a return. Buzz has been doing stellar work for Bette Midler for years, although this has never garnered him the praise he earned with Paul Buttefield, Stevie Wonder, the Rascals (!) and Full Moon compatriot Neil Larsen. What this CD does allow is for Buzz to return his guitar work front and center, and the result is something that will stir both hips and ears, simultaneously. (more…)
Beg Borrow & Steal: Lauralei Combs (vocals); Jack Johnson (guitars, background vocals); Bradley Hallen (bass); Eddie Bettinelli (drums, percussion).Additional personnel: Jeffery (CJ) Vanston (keyboards); Jeff Scott Soto, Devon Meade, Diana Grasselli, Niki Haris, Jean Marie McClain, John Fiore (background vocals).Recorded at The Music Grinder Studios, Hollywood, California. (more…)
The band’s third album, Alibi, was recorded in the Netherlands, produced by Jaap Eggermont, manager of the Golden Earring. The album failed to enter the charts, and not long after, the lead singer, Heerink, left the band. Demos with the new lead singer, Peter Struyk (a.k.a. Peter Stuyk, Peter Strikes, Peter Strykes and Peter William Strykes), were not well received by Atlantic.[citation needed]
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Smooth west coast music from Norway. On “Brazilian Night” the vocalist Victor Brooks and musicians from Lava and other great Norwegian studio musicians are featured at the album. (more…)