Paul McCartney has released his 17th solo album and today we have a guest review by Scott Erickson, a professional musician from Central Pennsylvania. Please visit Scott’s website for more info. ~ I’ve listened to Egypt Station a couple of times now, and I’m pretty confident that this is where I stand on the album … Read more
Modern Rock Review’s Choice 5 for June 2018 highlights North American artists Beyond the Grey, Nick Black, The Divided Line, Fox and Coyote and Heyoka’s Mirror. The Motor Car and the Weather Balloon by Ben Brookes On his debut LP, UK native Ben Brookes draws from a plethera of classic rock influences ranging from The … Read more
Buy Black Holes and Revelations An album packed with a smorgasbord of sonic styles and arrangements, Black Holes and Revelations originally sounds very modern and electronic, but deceptively finds its way to some fundamental rock and roll structure. This fourth studio album by Muse, saw the band taking a more active role in production duties … Read more
Buy Kid A Radiohead abandoned the three-guitar, “anthemic” rock style of their hugely successful 1990’s albums with an experimental, electronic approach on 2000’s Kid A. Drawing from wide influences ranging from classical to jazz to Brit pop, the group reached their highest level of critical acclaim and, thanks to some shrewd and original marketing techniques, … Read more
Modern Rock Review’s Choice 5 for October 2017 features music from around the world including Barock Project, Curse of Lono, Matt Hannah, Nescora, and Abraham Sarache. The Gardner by Abraham Sarache The Gardner is a progressive rock concept album by Dutch musician Abraham Sarache. The album is notable for its use of unique sounds … Read more
Modern Rock Review’s Choice 5 for September 2017 features hard rock groups from around the world including Beware of Darkness, Blue Healer, Headzero, Kaleido, and Smokey Fingers. Are You Real? by Beware of Darkness California’s Beware of Darkness provides good, crisp rock n’ roll which is heavy enough (and vulgar enough) to almost border … Read more
British prog rock composer and performer Steven Wilson has been busy producing and releasing new material over the past 24 months. In early 2015, Wilson released his Hand. Cannot. Erase., his popular and critically acclaimed concept album, which soon earned Wilson the title of “King of Prog Rock”. Later in 2015 came Transience, a double … Read more
After making strides towards top quality material in the late 1990s, Paul McCartney reached the apex of his later career with the solid double LP, Driving Rain, in 2001. Here, one will certainly find plenty of musical diversity, both stylistically and tonally as the album spans from extremely polished to nearly improvised and each track … Read more
Our August Choice 5 looks at an interesting mix of diverse new rock from artists worldwide. Verisimilitude by Embassy of Silence Embassy of Silence is a female-fronted hard rock group from Finland on a mission to create and perform beautiful metal/rock with a strongly progressive vibe. Their LP Verisimilitude features the entertaining and multi-styled “Shame, … Read more