Louis Cennamo Publishes Memoir

December 14, 2025

Given his stunning technique – those fluid and melodic runs that reverberate with the listener’s very psyche – and talents as composer, why Louis Cennamo‘s name is rarely mentioned within the bassists’ ranks remains a mystery. Not that the British musician ever played in obscure ensembles, what with his resume including THE DIMENSIONS, where he shared the space with Rod Stewart, RENAISSANCE, which he co-founded and rejoined when this collective became ILLUSION, and, though briefly, COLOSSEUM. So it’s about time the veteran shed a light on such an enigma.

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Alan Vega’s Eponymous Record Gets Expanded

December 13, 2025

2026 will mark the tenth anniversary of Alan Vega‘s passing and the 45th anniversary of his self-titled solo debut, a marvelous psychobilly affair the American artist issued around the time his band’s SUICIDE released their sophomore effort “Suicide: Alan Vega And Martin Rev” that only goes to show how much material this musician had on his hands. Surprisingly, Alan’s minimalistic longplay produced a hit, when “Jukebox Babe” dented the charts in France, and proved to be rather influential, what with “Bye Bye Bayou” getting covered by MERCURY REV almost three decades later. No wonder, then, in the platter deserving a deluxe edition – even though what’s to see the light of day on January 23rd isn’t really deluxe, apart from packaging, as there’s just a bunch of demos added to the freshly remastered album.

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STRAY Celebrate Their Debut’s Anniversary With Concert Record

December 11, 2025

For a band whose first longplay was released 55 years ago, STRAY don’t have enough live albums in their discography, so another such release has always been more than welcome, especially if its predecessor was released more than a decade ago. That’s why the very recent appearance of a follow-up to 2014’s "Live In Japan 2013" feels so timely, and not for nothing the cover of “One For The Road” looks so similar to the minimalistic artwork of the British ensemble’s debut platter.

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Rhino Records Founders Reissue Album Of Their Own Band

December 10, 2025

There’s no shortage of record labels created by musicians, yet only few of those enterprises proved to become what we call majors. And while, in this regard, it’s A&M and Reprise first come to mind, with, respectively, Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra as masterminds, the venerated Rhino came from that stock, too, brought to life by Harold Bronson and Richard Foos. Once upon a time, the two used to be members of the ensemble called MOGAN DAVID AND HIS WINOS, alongside Paul Rappaport, the future fixture at Columbia, and Jonathan Kellerman, a bestselling author on the bloom. The band emerged in 1969 and went to release a series of single and an album, in 1973, titled “Savage Young Winos” and long unavailable, before fizzling out in 1975. Five decades later, they decided to look back, though, and dust off the old platter.

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Entire Output Of IAN GILLAN BAND Gets Boxed Together

December 9, 2025

It might seem like a no-brainer to former DEEP PURPLE members to pursue a hard rock route after they were out of the ensemble’s fold, yet some of them were quite willing to experiment. Of course, those who first spring to mind in this regard are Jon Lord and Ian Paice – before joining David Coverdale in WHITESNAKE, the two had an interesting combo with Tony Ashton – but Ian Gillan found some pleasure in going out of a limb too. The singer would find solid success with GILLAN in the late ’70s, only that collective followed another of his endeavors, IAN GILLAN BAND, a jazz-rock outfit with a legacy of three studio albums and assorted concert and outtakes releases, mostly issued via the now-defunct Angel Air label. All of those records now are to be gathered into a comprehensive box set and see the light of day on February 27th, 2026.

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