Robert Plant Ploughs Folk Tradition On Long-Overdue Record

July 16, 2025

Never a stranger to an inspired cover, Robert Plant has been sporadically raiding other writers’ repertoire since “Dreamland” was out back in 2002, with both his albums with Alison Krauss – 2007’s “Raising Sand” and “Raise The Roof” from 2021 – based on borrowed material. As of the veteran’s solo offerings, his last interpretational collection was 2010’s “Band Of Joy” – and Percy’s forthcoming platter is going to pick up where that one left off, rather than from his last one, “Carry Fire” from 2017.

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STICK MEN Put Out Stop-Gap EP

July 15, 2025

Given how busy they are, hardly anybody expected new album from STICK MEN – even though it’s about time Markus Reuter, Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto followed up 2016’s "Prog Noir" with a full-length release. And they will, this fall, but what’s scheduled for August 8th is an EP that pick up where "Tentacles" left off back in 2022.

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Dave Cousins Passed Away

July 13, 2025

Dave Cousins, one of the greatest English singers-songwriters, has died today, aged 85. Not that it was unexpected but it hurts just the same. Charming and stubborn in equal measure, David is mostly known as the founder and leader of STRAWBS, yet his role in the establishment of independent radio in the UK should not be underestimated either. Both of these aspects would boil down to Cousins’ personality, though, and his deep understanding of human nature.

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Eric Andersen Brings “Blue River” Alive

July 13, 2025

Over the course of his six-decade-long career, Eric Andersen has released quite a few concert recordings, yet those felt as conceptual as any front-of-audience set can be, while the one he’s issuing on July 25th is different. Documenting the veteran singer-songwriting Japanese show from 2012, when the veteran was celebrating the 40th anniversary of his “Blue River album, it features nine of ten tracks which comprised that record and adds five more cuts to the classic’s context.

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Entire Oeuvre Of English NIRVANA Receives Box Set Treatment

July 11, 2025

The fact that they wrote the first rock-opera, released as “The Story Of Simon Simopath” back in 1967, and were splashed with paint on television by Salvador Dali, should have won Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos, collectively known as NIRVANA, a lot of accolades, yet the popularity of certain American band whom they successfully sued brough this British duo a different sort of attention. Lately, though, the veterans of psychedelia have been receiving their due, not only via the reissues of the little ensemble’s classic albums but also though a recent various-artists tribute. And now the time came for the group’s entire output, and more, to get corralled into a single package.

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