John Lennon’s New York Concert In The Pipeline

February 13, 2025

Even though it would be only logical if the recent reissue of John Lennon‘s "Mind Games" was followed by an expanded edition of his next album, “Walls And Bridges” from 1974, one can ignore the glaring omission from this archival program of the late Beatle’s 1972 output. But if the allure of “Some Time In New York City” is rather limited, the listeners’ interest to “Live In New York City” – which, although recorded soon after that longplay, saw the light only in 1986 – remains undiminished. And chances are the legendary concert will be out quite soon – as suggested by the planned arrival of an EP of the same origin on Record Store Day.

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Tribute To Peter Banks’ EMPIRE Gets A Second Chapter

February 13, 2025

A few months ago, when the news arrived of Mark Murdock launching another project, EMPIRE IN RUINS, to continue what he started as a drummer of Peter Banks’ EMPIRE and his own THE NEW EMPIRE, it seemed like a one-off endeavor, its “Mark V” title suggesting simply that and nothing more. However, February 12th saw the release of its follow-up, “Mark VI: Lament Of The Colossus” – available digitally – where Murdock plays all the instruments on his pieces, apart from guitars which are handled by Mark’s regular collaborator Fernando Perdomo.

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SMALL FACES Finally Expand “The Autumn Stone”

February 12, 2025

Some projects take ages to come to fruition, but the endeavor of having SMALL FACES‘ “The Autumn Stone” issued as a remastered and expanded edition might be the strangest of them all. Strangest – because remastering doesn’t take nine years to do and because expanding what originally was a compilation shouldn’t take a lot of conceptual thinking. Yet that’s happened: the news of such a release – planned as a two-CD mediabook then – first appeared as a blurb on “The Autumn Stone / Me You And Us Too” single which saw the light of day on Record Store Day back in 2016, and there was even a test pressing of the album before it got indefinitely delayed – until now.

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Report Of WARHORSE Reunion Is Released

February 11, 2025

They may have released only two studio longplay and often unfairly remembered only thanks to being founded by former DEEP PURPLE bassist Nick Simper and the presence in their ranks of Ashley Holy, the future singer with Rick Wakeman‘s ensemble, but WARHORSE were a rather impressive collective whose sort of heavy prog dated yet didn’t become boring. This band existed between 1970 and 1974 and gathered again twice, in 1985 and 2005… or so the group’s official history used to state.

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Bobby Rush And Kenny Wayne Shepherd Bridge Ages On Joint Album

February 9, 2025

Blues might be a product of a single man’s lonesomeness, yet sometimes a collaboration emerges that focuses on synergy between two musicians, and that’s exactly how it’s panning out to be on a forthcoming album by artists from different generations. Separated by a whopping forty-four years, Bobby Rush and Kenny Wayne Shepherd have a lot in common though, and this “a lot” is mostly what they play.

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