Albums
Albums From The Milk Crate: Yellowjackets
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
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
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
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
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
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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Albums From The Milk Crate: Saga – Worlds Apart
Oscar Jordan takes a look at Saga's album - Worlds Apart, released in October of 1981.
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Albums From The Milk Crate: Disturbing The Peace
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 articles about guitar records from the past titled: Albums From The Milk Crate.
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Album Review: The Michael Williams Band – Fire Red
Michael Williams. He comes from Texas, plays gritty guitar, sings like a chain smoker, and belts the kind of blues that would make his late father, blues singer Larry “Junior Medlow” Williams proud. His second album is called Fire Red and it’s saturated with the kind of burning gut level stuff that has been missing from blues music for a long time.
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Album Review: Derek Sherinian – Oceana
Oceana is keyboard wizard Derek Sherinian’s seventh solo record and as usual it’s chock full of intense rock and fusion goodness. Guitar virtuoso guests are all over this record, and it does not disappoint.
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