Robin Trower Reports From The States On Concert Platter

October 31, 2025

While a lot of octogenarian artists would love to rest on their laurels, Robin Trower has been on a roll lately, the veteran’s recent streak of creativity almost making his reissue programme pale in comparison with albums like "Come And Find Me" from earlier in the year. What the veteran didn’t do for a long time, though, was issuing non-archival records originating from the stage, but finally he decided to deliver a follow-up to “RT@RO.08” which saw the light of day back in 2009. Trower’s trek across the States in the summer of 2025 proved to be so successful that quite a few performances were preserved for posterity.

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Bobby Callender Revisits His “Rainbow” On Stage

October 30, 2025

Although it wasn’t customary for black artists to cross over to lysergically influenced side of things in the late ’60s and early ’70s, there were successful attempts to do so, as THE TENPTATIONS’ “Psychedelic Shack” suggested rather convincingly. However, nobody achieved what would be dubbed “proto-prog” as impressively as Bobby Callender whose three platters, first and foremost “Rainbow” from 1968, are considered stone-cold classics in cult circles. He didn’t seem to release anything after 1972’s “Le Musée De L’Impressionnisme” and all but disappeared from public eye – and yet the veteran returned two years ago to perform his debut live, and now this recording is ready to be out.

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THE GIFT Channel The Spirit Of Shakespeare On Album Number Five

October 29, 2025

British proggers THE GIFT aren’t strangers to long pauses in their discography, yet while it’s easy to chalk up an eight-year gap between the band’s 2006 debut “Awake & Dreaming” and that record’s follow-up “Land Of Shadows” to the latter being a proverbially difficult second album, the slightly shorter wait for the group’s fifth platter, a successor to 2019’s “Antenna” should be attributed to other factors. The new offering is titled “Seven Seasons” and scheduled for release on November 21st.

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Interview with Andy Curran

October 28, 2025

The world “tireless” doesn’t cover Andy Curran’s work ethic, yet there’s nothing surprising about the Canadian musician’s approach to his art; the same can’t be said, however, about the stylistic scope of his endeavors over the course of the last four decades. At first glance, there’s no common denominator between such different, in stylistic terms, entities as CONEY HATCH and ENVY OF NONE, but with Andy in one of both bands’ driver seats, they do share DNA, and following the curve of Curran’s career, which included a few other projects, is an interesting undertaking.

That was exactly what we embarked upon in the lobby of one of Toronto’s buildings where the veteran visited a radio station to promote the latest offerings from the two ensembles, the reissue of the former’s debut album and the release of the latter’s fresh single, although our chat embraced more than this.

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Luther Grosvenor Issues Fifth Solo Offering

October 27, 2025

As former guitarist with such outstanding ensembles as SPOOKY TOOTH and MOTT THE HOOPLE, as well as supergroup WIDOWMAKER, Luther Grosvenor seemed to possess a lot of gravitas, even though his solo career has brought forth a mere handful of albums. But if the veteran’s first, “Under Open Skies” from 1971, remains a focal point for many of his fans, Luther’s further opuses, such as "If You Dare" from 2011, are criminally ignored – and not surprisingly, given how sparse Grosvenor’s release schedule is. What’s surprising is the fact that he has just followed last year’s “Another Journey” with a fresh work.

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