RELEASE YEAR: 2024BAND URL: https://tobyjepsonofficial.com/ Renowned songwriter, screenwriter, record producer, and radio host Toby Jepson is as talented as they come, but as much as I admire his work with Wayward Sons, it is rather refreshing to once again hear same brand-new solo compositions of his. “Look Out!” marks the first musical chapter of a…
RELEASE YEAR: 2024BAND URL: https://www.facebook.com/TremendousMusic/ The Birmingham-based glam rock outfit known as Tremendous released the rather impressive and well-written Relentless four years ago and garnered a lot of positive reviews and praise from fans and members of the press for that delightfully catchy piece of work. This stripped-down, singer-songwriter-esque acoustic EP is something completely different to the…
RELEASE YEAR: 2024BAND URL: https://www.facebook.com/HumanZooOfficial This is my first encounter with the German hard rockers known as Human Zoo and let me tell you right off the bat that I am wildly impressed with these guys and what they offer. We are off to a cracking good start with the bombastic and punchy album opener…
RELEASE YEAR: 2023BAND URL: https://omnibuspress.com/products/whatever-happened-to-slade-when-the-whole-world-went-crazee Whatever Happened to Slade? by Daryl Easlea is undoubtedly one of the most enthusiastic, warm-hearted, and passionate books on any band out there that I have come across for quite some time. This one basically reads like a love letter to not only one of the greatest yet most underrated…
RELEASE YEAR: 2023 BAND URL: https://www.heatsweden.com/ Yes, this is just what the good hard rock doctor ordered for a dismal day at work – a brand-new and sparkling remix of the excellent Freedom Rock, i.e., the second full-length LP by Swedish legends H.E.A.T, which originally came out in 2010. It should come as no surprise…
RELEASE YEAR: 2023 BAND URL: https://www.facebook.com/MikeTrampOfficial/ Renowned Danish guitarist/vocalist Mike Tramp recently released this wicked 12-track offering via Frontiers Records, and as the title of the record signifies, this one is rather special in that it sees Tramp interpreting (or rather re-imagining, I suppose) the songs of glam metal outfit White Lion, i. e. his former…
RELEASE YEAR: 2023 BAND URL: https://omnibuspress.com/collections/coming-soon/products/bowie-odyssey-73-published-on-25th-may-2023 The three previous entries in the Bowie Odyssey series impressed me greatly with 71 and 72 in particular leaving their mark on me due to them being flawlessly written excursions into a rich and evocative literary universe unlike anything else out there. In other words, those two masterpieces were an…
RELEASE YEAR: 2023 BAND URL: https://www.facebook.com/L.A.GunsOfficial/ Renowned glam metal rockers L.A. Guns have enjoyed some rather productive years and a bit of a renaissance lately, and this gritty 2023 effort of theirs shows that there is still a lot of mileage left in the tank. Although not as hard-hitting and thrilling as its predecessor titled Checkered…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://omnibuspress.com/products/glam-when-superstars-ruled-the-world-1970-74-published-on-7th-july-2022 What a lovely and evocative delight this colorful and captivating piece on the birth and creative peaks of glam rock is. Filled to the brim with pictures of bands, concert posters, album adverts, fan club newsletters, badges, and single and album covers, author Mark Paytress has composed a most impressive…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://www.starcircus.co.uk/ The marvelous outfit known as Star Circus, which hails from London, is the real fucking deal and delivers a scorching slab of fist-pumping, arena-sized rock loaded with more hooks than you and I deserve. Oh, you want superb melodies, massive riffs, crashing drums, and raunchy vocals too? Fret not as…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022BAND URL: https://facebook.com/officialwildnite/ Wildnite is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and aspiring hard rock outfits to have come out of Norway for quite some time, and these skilled dudes sure know what it means to write stadium-sized tunes with infectious riffs, sharp hooks, and awesome choruses to them. Their latest effort, which…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://omnibuspress.com/ Following the publication of last year’s “Bowie Odyssey 71”, yours truly had been eagerly awaiting its follow-up, and what a treat it now is to be able to tell you that we are dealing with a sparkling new literary gem here. Simon Goddard’s story is an engrossing account of Bowie’s…
