THE ROLLING STONES Skip A Year With “Black And Blue” Deluxe

September 24, 2025

While reportedly working on new music, THE ROLLING STONES apparently decided to resume the stream of their archival releases which, somehow, come in spurts, especially when it concerns concert documents, but even the pace of the band’s reissue programme is quite puzzling. With the deluxe edition of “Goat Head Soup” emerging out of nowhere in 2020, the ensemble’s fans were hoping for a similar treatment of “Exile On Main St.” two years later or “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll” in 2024, yet the veterans seemed reluctant to jump on the 50th anniversary bandwagon – until now that they announced, six months before the actual five-decade date of the album’s arrival, the “Black And Blue” box set, scheduled for November 14th.

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THIN LIZZY Round Up Their 1974-1975 Output Into Box Set

September 24, 2025

1974 and 1975 were watershed years for THIN LIZZY who transformed from the trio of their initial phase into a fearsome foursome with signature twin-guitar sound that, between the band’s “Nightlife” and “Fighting” albums, shifted towards hard rock. In 2024, the quartet’s heavier incarnation has been anthologized in the "1976" box set – which marked a change from the one-longplay-focused approach of "Vagabonds Of The Western World" collection – and it will be followed on November 21st by “74-75” that includes seven CDs.

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Jan Schelhaas Issues His Jam With Phil Lynott

September 23, 2025

THIN LIZZY’s “Nightlife” album is yet to see a deluxe edition, and when it does it will hardly include a piece that Jan Schelhaas, the British keyboard player most famous for his stints with CARAVAN and CAMEL, has posted on his Bandcamp: a cut laid down with Phil Lynott which would become the title track of the aforementioned album. Jan was credited with playing organ on “Mama Nature Said” and “The Hero And The Madman” on the “Vagabonds Of The Western World” LP – the platter already turned into a box set – but not a lot of people know he stayed a while longer with the Irish group.

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Interview with Jimmy Helms

September 23, 2025

What Jimmy Helms has been doing for many years seems nigh on impossible. His name might be familiar to a lot of listeners, yet quite a few of them can see and admire the entire roadmap of the veteran’s musical adventures. The listeners associating the worldwide-famous singer with LONDONBEAT, a band Jimmy still fronts, are hardly aware of his prog-rock-related credentials, and those who heard Helms in such projects as “The Butterfly Ball” would not be sure whether it was Jimmy or his namesake that took a soul classic “Gonna Make You An Offer” to the charts. But a sample spin of his recordings will convince everyone: there’s only one, and only, Jimmy Helms.

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John Halsey Of THE RUTLES And PATTO Puts Out Solo Debut

September 21, 2025

With all the talk about SPINAL TAP, many people tend to forget – or don’t know it in the first place – that this combo had been preceded by THE RUTLES whose onscreen line-up featured a couple bona fide musicians. One of them, cast in the role of Barry Wom, was “Admiral” John Halsey, a drummer with solid credentials as a member of TIMEBOX and PATTO and credits on Lou Reed’s “Transformer” and a few other notable records. The veteran couldn’t boast of solo releases, though – until now.

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