Fifty years after Larry Mullen Jr. pinned a note to the board at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin asking for musicians to form a band, U2 are marking the anniversary with Carnaval de Luz, their 16th studio album and first album of new material in nine years. It arrives November 13, 2026 on Island … Read more
Fuel Release Their 7th Studio Album and First with New Vocalist Fuel has released their seventh studio album, Pendulum. It is the group’s first album in five years since the 2021 release Anomaly as well as their first with vocalist Aaron Scott, who joined Fuel in 2022. Scott got the gig after he famously performed … Read more
Fuel has released their seventh studio album, Pendulum. It is the group’s first album in five years since the 2021 release Anomaly as well as their first with vocalist Aaron Scott, who joined Fuel in 2022. Scott got the gig after he famously performed the group’s classic “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)” on the popular television … Read more
This article was originally published at Keystone Rock Review on May 17, 2020 Western Pennsylvania artist Donnie Iris is a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter who had a long and successful career with groups The Jaggerz, Wild Cherry and as a solo artist fronting the group Donnie Iris and the Cruisers. Combined, he has been … Read more
Northumberland, PA is home to a state of the art multi-media center anchored by a studio with a classic design. 8 Days a Week (8DAWs) is owned and operated by Paul Smith, a top notch musician and engineer who was previously a member of The Badlees and co-founder of Saturation Acres Recording studio. The physical … Read more
Buy Anthem of the Peaceful Army This album review is provided by Merry Mercurial, a writer of fiction, essays, reviews, and the “highly subjective” music blog “The Music According to Merry” With a tambourine, train-howl moans, and that first “Woooooah-mama” from “Highway Tune” on their Black Smoke Rising EP, Greta Van Fleet essentially cannonballed … Read more
Is arena rock dying out? Arena rock enjoyed huge popularity in the 1970s and 1980s and dominated with songs that held immense power, which was described in our previous article ‘Song Power’ as an elusive quality that cannot just simply be replicated. However, arena rock has now largely fallen by the wayside, as pop and … Read more
Piano aficionado Victor Wainwright, Jr. has made his mark as a boogie-woogie style performer and songwriter with a style that fuses rock, blues and just a touch of jazz. One of the two current groups that Wainwright currently tours with nationally and internationally is called The Train, Formed in 2017, the groups released their debut … Read more
This album review is provided by J.D. Cook, a writer of fiction, essays, reviews and the managing editor of the website New Pulp Tales. Find out more about Mr. Cook at JeremiahDylanCook.com. While the internet age has given the world many new problems, access to independent music is not one of them. It’s a fabulous … Read more