Paul Draper Restyles MANSUN Classics In Acoustic Way

December 27, 2025

It’s been thirty years since MANSUN formed, and although this British ensemble wrapped up their activities in 2003, the band’s songs are still fondly remembered by a lot of listeners, let alone by Paul Draper who used to front the collective. Surprisingly, the singer-songwriter’s subsequent career yielded not too many records – his discography numbers only a couple studio longplays, 2017’s “Spooky Action” and “Cult Leader Tactics” from 2022, two concert albums, three EPs and quite a few singles – so the project the veteran’s ready to release on February 20th must come as a pleasant offering for his fans.

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Gavin Sutherland Silently Releases “Friday Rain”

December 26, 2025

It’s one of the great injustices: ignoring an excellent artist who might have lost erstwhile popularity yet retained all the brilliance of the talent which made him a hitmaker in the first place. Unfortunately, that’s what happened to Gavin Sutherland of THE SUTHERLAND BROTHERS fame. The veteran doesn’t seem to really mind, however, and a month ago, without much ado, he followed last year’s "A Fragile World" with another album one can also access on the British musician’s Bandcamp.

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Jah Wobble Returns To Post-Punk

December 25, 2025

The venerated master of deep resonance, Jah Wobble has been experimenting with sounds for years, yet he rarely looked back at, let alone deploy, his post-punk origins, and even the veteran’s return to the past with "Metal Box - Rebuilt In Dub" didn’t fully reflect his roots. However, after working on a weekly basis in a music community project in Merton, with his old collaborator, former SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES guitarist Jon Klein, and coming up with lyrics while on transport – as Jah did on "The Bus Routes Of South London" – Wobble composed an entire past-soaked record, with Klein being very instrumental on it.

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Definitive Book On Jon Lord Ready For Publication

December 24, 2025

The ultimate rock keyboard player, Jon Lord‘s work with DEEP PURPLE and WHITESNAKE, let alone with THE ARTWOODS and PAL, is loved, admired even, yet it’s not scrutinized enough, despite a couple of volumes on the late musician adorning the aficionados’ shelves. But there’s another one, on the way, that might change this situation: penned by Ovais Naqvi, titled “Before We Forget – A Work in Eight Movements” and set to be out in February.

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THE FLOWER KINGS Release A Report From The Road

December 23, 2025

For a band with a three-decade history THE FLOWER KINGS, who are ever so often on tour, don’t have a proportionate number of concert albums, their first recording from the stage dating back to 2000, when “Alive On Planet Earth” brought the Swedes’ natural sound to those who could not attend their shows, and their last, “Live In Europe 2023” from 2024, divided from the previous one, “Tour Kaputt” from 2011 by a long gap. This is why it seems quite celebratory that the veterans are ready to release a new one soon.

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