John McLaughlin Delivers Another Report From Montreux

May 19, 2025

Even though sometimes there are decade-long gaps in his discography, John McLaughlin always keeps his listeners on their toes, because each new entry in the long list of the British legend’s records shines a new light on the art of fusion. His last studio album being 2021’s “Liberation Time” which captured the essence of the pandemic, and a concert one “Live in San Francisco” from three years prior to that, it’s about time Mahavishnu John delivered something new – and on August 8th, McLaughlin will.

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GOLDEN EARRING Flipped Their “Switch” For Its Golden Jubilee

May 18, 2025

It might not have been as glorified as “Moontan” whence “Radar Love” emerged to make GOLDEN EARRING an international proposition, but “Switch” – the Dutch veterans’ tenth longplay, released in 1975 – housed another bona fide classic, a future B-side for IRON MAIDEN who covered “Kill Me (Ce Soir)” in 1990. However, dismissing the rest of the album, very much progressive and funky at the same time, would be nigh on criminal, as each of the platter’s tracks is precious, especially when assessed as part of the whole record. And now this record has been expanded within the ensemble’s reissue programme.

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FIREFALL Reconfigure Classics For Second Covers Album

May 17, 2025

While their fans eagerly wait for a follow-up to 2020’s "Comet" that consisted, for the most part, of original material, FIREFALL seem to be in for the long game with exploring the ensemble’s kindred spirits’ creative cache. Looks like their 2023 album “Friends & Family” proved to be successful enough to warrant a sequel in which more of perennials get covered, although with a smaller quotient of pieces hailing from the ’70s, the band’s own halcyon days.

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Duffy Power’s Forgotten, ARGENT-Backed Album Up For Discovery

May 16, 2025

The least successful of Larry Parnes’ protégés, whose list included such luminaries as Billy Fury and Georgie Fame, it was for lack of luck rather than for lack of talent that Duffy Power didn’t deliver hit after hit, which is why the British artist reached the ’70s without riches but with a lot of respect from his peers. Signed to CBS for an album release, what the singer could put out back in 1971 was quite impressive: a record laid down in the company of ARGENT – and produced by Rod Argent and another former Zombie, Chris White, who co-penned “Hell Hound” for their elder friend – and also featuring PENTANGLE rhythm section, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox, as well as one and only Ollie Halsall on guitar. Only the platter remained untitled and unissued for decades – until now.

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STEELEYE SPAN Explore Conflict On First Studio Platter In Six Years

May 15, 2025

Galleons and planes in a single context may scream of steampunk, yet it’s all par for the course where STEELEYE SPAN are concerned, since a lot of their works is rooted in the merging of folk material with contemporary rock arrangements. Still, the veterans’ forthcoming album – the band’s first full-length studio offering after 2019’s jubilee-marking “Est’d 1969” – should take this stylistic marriage further. Titled “Conflict” and comprised of a dozen numbers, the record that’s to be out on May 23rd will pick up where four fresh cuts on 2023’s “The Green Man Collection” left off.

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