by Derric Miller Staff Writer The gents of D’Ercole have played together for quite a while, combining their efforts on Phil Vincent’s solo efforts as well as the band Tragik. In this incarnation, D’Ercole, you’ll get a decidely more polished and less current-sounding [...]
by Alex Barbieri Staff Writer Imagine yourself back in high school. A friend gives you an unknown band’s demo tape in the hall. On the bus ride home, you pop it into your Walkman and are blown away by what you hear. The group quickly becomes your favorite new band. Fast-forward to 2010. For many [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer What Lies Beneath is the third solo album from well-known Finnish singer-songwriter Tarja Turunen. Perhaps best known outside of Finland as the operatic front person of symphonic metal masters Nightwish from 1996 to 2005, Tarja continues to rightfully gain following as a [...]
by Derric Miller Staff Writer “We believe in plastic surgery! The only way you can be what you want to be,” sings Eric De Van, lead singer of the remarkable new band, De Van, on the track “Plastic Surgery.” Their debut, Planet Botox, is at once cutting, bleak, excessively honest and above [...]
by Mike Debbage Guest Writer How many tribute albums are out there? And how many of those are covering the material of the Beatles? In the last year alone former Jellyfish guitarist Jason Falkner and New Age pianist David Lanz have already done their facelift on the infamous musical catalog of [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer Smokin’ hot blues rock Texas-style! That’s the best description for Black Bone Child’s release Alligator. Hailing from Austin, the quartet known as Black Bone Child continues to impress. These guys do blues rock, blues rock, and more blues rock, so don’t expect [...]
by Trevor Portz Staff Writer Though they have yet to fully conquer the states, Lordi have certainly had a fair bit of success overseas, most memorably after winning Eurovision in 2006. Of course, winning a TV music contest isn’t necessarily the key to pop longevity. Then again, neither is [...]
by Derric Miller Staff Writer Fenrik Lane is one of the first releases from the brand new label, MelodicRockRecords. If you frequent www.melodicrock.com, you know that label head Andrew McNeice earmarked Fenrick Lane as one of the label’s first releases based on the band’s uber-polished Melodic [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer What if Britney Spears did metal? What if Avril Lavigne dropped the teenage angst bit? What if Lady Gaga focused on her music rather than image? What if Amy Lee wrote a happy song? You might get something like Scandinavian bombshell Issa’s debut release Sign Of Angels [...]
by Derric Miller Staff Writer Singer/songwriter/guitarist Marco Ferreira, the extremely prolific mind behind Goodbye Thrill, is back at it again. His solo album Working Overtime and then the recent release of the band that bears his name (Ferreira’s Better Run) didn’t keep him busy enough to [...]
