Review: Cardinal Black – Midnight At The Valencia Thirty Tigers (May 23rd, 2025) Reviewer – Chris O’Connor I have been waiting anxiously for the release of this album, having become a huge fan of Cardinal Black over the last couple of years. If you are unaware of this stunning act, they are actually homegrown, hailing […]
Review: The Commoners – Live In The UK Gypsy Soul Records (May 16th, 2025) Reviewer – Chris O’Connor Hailing out of Toronto, in case you are unaware, The Commoners are: Chris Medhurst (lead vocals/guitar), Ross Hays Citrullo (guitar), Miles Evans-Branagh (keyboards), Ben Spiller (bass guitar), and Adam Cannon (drums) If you imagine a heady fusion […]
Review: Danny Veras – Can’t Stop The Rock The Rock Company (April 23rd, 2025) Reviewer – Chris O’Connor Let’s talk about Danny Veras. A gifted vocalist born in Brazil, raised across Spain and France, and now calling Florida home, Danny Veras is a name Melodic Rock fans should already know. Since teaming up with genre legend Paul Sabu in 2012, […]
Review: Danny Veras – Can’t Stop The Rock Rock Company (April 23rd, 2025) Reviewer – Chris O’Connor Let’s talk about Danny Veras. A gifted vocalist born in Brazil, raised across Spain and France, and now calling Florida home, Danny Veras is a name Melodic Rock fans should already know. Since teaming up with genre legend […]
Review: Mark Morton – Without The Pain Snakefarm Music Group (April 11th 2025) Reviewer – Chris O’Connor For those unfamiliar with the name, Mark Morton is best known as the guitarist and founding member of Virginian metal titans Lamb Of God. Admittedly, as someone who’s never quite connected with that band’s brand of extreme metal—despite […]
Revenant – Best Medicine (EP) Revenant (April 11th 2025) Reviewer: Chris O’Connor So it came to pass, in the third decade of the twenty-first century, that the most quintessentially American of musical genres firmly took root in the United Kingdom. A wave of outstanding acts emerged, blazing their own trails—and among the brightest is the […]
Review: Rush – RUSH 50 (Anniversary Super Deluxe) Mercury/Anthem (March 21st 2025) Reviewer – Chris O’Connor Rush has long been revered as one of the most innovative and technically gifted rock bands of all time, and with the release of ‘RUSH 50‘, fans are treated to an expansive retrospective that captures the full scope of […]
Review: Riverside – Live ID. InsideOutMusic (January 24th 2025) Reviewer – Chris O’Connor Okay, first of all, it’s confession time … until picking up this absolutely brilliant ‘live’ album, somehow, although I knew the name Riverside, I’d simply never actually heard them – and that’s been my loss. Just in case you are also unaware, […]
Review: The Comancheros – A Decade In The Mirror Rottweiler Records (March 22nd 2025) Reviewer – Chris O’Connor For years, I’ve been a devoted fan of The Comancheros, frequently spinning their tracks on my radio shows. So, when the opportunity arose to review their latest release, I jumped at the chance. Hailing from Missouri—the “Show […]
Review: Alien – When Yesterday Comes Around Pride & Joy Music (March 21st, 2025) Reviewer: Chris O’Connor Sweden’s Alien has long stood as one of the finest torchbearers of AOR, delivering anthemic, emotionally charged melodic rock with unwavering finesse. With ‘When Yesterday Comes Around’, the band proves once again why they are revered within the […]
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