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Album Review: Trevor Rabin – Jacaranda

Trevor Rabin - Jacaranda Album Cover Art

Former Yes guitarist and film soundtrack composer Trevor Rabin releases his first solo record in over twenty years. Here’s our review.

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Album Review: Fastway – Eat Dog, Eat

Fastway - Eat Dog Eat Album Cover

Former Motorhead guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke returns with another Fastway album after a two-decade hiatus. He’s got a new line-up with producer/vocalist/bassist Tobey Jepson pulling triple duty, and drummer Matt Eldridge pounding the skins.

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Albums From The Milk Crate: Thin Lizzy – Life: Live

Thin Lizzy: Life: Live

In ancient times when music was considered a tangible possession, music lovers placed their prized vinyl albums in wooden or plastic milk crates. Guests could enter your living room, look through your albums, and find out who you are, and what you’re about. With this idea in mind, I present to you a series of…

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Album Review: Rodrigo Y Gabriela – Area 52

Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Area 52 Album Cover

Rodrigo Y Gabriela take some older material and re-imagined it with the help of a thirteen piece Cuban orchestra for a wider sonic vision.

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Albums From The Milk Crate: Yellowjackets

Yellowjackets Album Cover

In ancient times when music was considered a tangible possession, music lovers placed their prized vinyl albums in wooden or plastic milk crates. Guests could enter your living room, look through your albums, and find out who you are, and what you’re about. With this idea in mind, I present to you a series of…

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Album Review: Alcest – Les Voyages de l’Âme

Alcest – Les Voyages de l’Âme

In Les Voyages de l’Âme, Alcest marries these two approaches, alternating between dark and light in a way that befits his seemingly contradictory musical influences.

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Album Review: Oz Noy Twisted Blues Volume 1

Oz Noy - Twisted Blues Album Cover

Blues music is like a city with many neighborhoods, and guitarist Oz Noy has concocted a blues record incorporating the less traditional facets of the genre, and his own artistic sensibility.

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Album Review: Chris Brooks – The Axis Of All Things

Chris Brooks - The Axis Of All Things Album Cover

The Axis of All Things is easily exactly what it strives to be which is a great progressive rock/metal album for guitar enthusiasts. While I think it can be summed up easily like that I don’t think it to be an album so easy to overlook.

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Albums From The Milk Crate: Night Of The Living Dregs

Dixie Dregs - Night Of The Living Dregs Album Cover

The Dixie Dregs showed the world that there was more to fusion than Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, and Larry Coryell. They were the originators of avant-garde country music. Originally formed in 1970 with the name Dixie Grit, this Augusta, Georgia based ensemble fused southern rock with The Mahavisnu Orchestra, bluegrass, rock n’ roll, and Baroque classical styles.

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Top 10 Best Guitar Albums of 2011

Animals As Leaders - Weightless

It’s that time of the year again. You know what time I’m talking about. The end of the year. The time where top 10 lists of editors’ picks of albums, effects, and/or musicians start sprouting up like the hair on my neck whenever someone says “Soundtrack to Your Escape was a good album.” And why should we pass up on the chance to embrace such a gimmick?

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