Monthly Archives: February 2025

STATUS QUO Drill Into “Live!” For Deluxe Box Set

February 25, 2025

It may be a bad, bad, bad practice, milking their fans, but, a decade after STATUS QUO‘s “Live!” was expanded into a four-CD set, with two discs dedicated to this on-stage classic and other two given to previously unreleased shows … Continue reading →

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Interview with Derek Moore (NEKTAR)

February 25, 2025

There were a few English ensembles who formed in Germany and didn’t quite fit in the other music markets, leaving a scarce legacy of cult classics, yet NEKTAR beat the odds and not only made a name for themselves in … Continue reading →

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ANCHOR AND BURDEN – Afterglow

February 24, 2025

Iapetus 2024 Like the dust that settles all around, Berlin ensemble’s mini-album brings together alchemical elements of their rhyme and reason. It’s easy to assume the half-hour offering, appearing hot on the heels of the incendiary that slightly reformatted this … Continue reading →

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Bill Fay Passed Away

February 23, 2025

If, for some artists, “legend” is a common-place signifier, for Bill Fay it’s a plan-truth descriptor. Most people presumed the singer-songwriter dead when, after his two albums – the self-titled 1970 debut and the following year’s “Time Of The Last … Continue reading →

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Jon Camp’s Posthumous Mini-Album Prepared For Release

February 23, 2025

When writing about the great Jon Camp‘s untimely two and a half months, this scribe erroneously assumed that the former RENAISSANCE bass player didn’t succeed in coming up with a solo album, simply because he had no time – yet, … Continue reading →

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