Category Archives: Music

Heath Common, BEATSBOX E.P. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are poets and there are musicians, then there are lyricists of the highest value who toil away to conjure up seemingly out of mid-air the truth behind the meaning and whose purpose it seems is not to make the song just memorable, to one that gets inside the heart but to whom you cannot imagine having lived without. Into that fray lives many a genius but there is only one Heath Common and there can only be one man capable of bringing such assertive tales to life as he does in his new release BEATSBOX E.P.

Heath Common, BEATSBOX E.P. E.P. Review. full post

(374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Don Henley, Cass County. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The vibrant rich tones associated with the heartbeat of the Eagles has missed being played out as a solo performance, whilst the exuberance of the band has been seen and heard in Joe Walsh’s stunning 2012 album Analogue Man. The more thoughtful repose, the more natural sounding and gentle like feel that comes with many of the Eagles classic ballads has been strangely and sadly quiet before the massive and exhilarating tour that brought the group back where they belong and, until now, hushed into the dark spaces of memory of the post Eagles shows.

Don Henley, Cass County. Album Review. full post

(519 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Joel Hoekstra’s 13, Dying To Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When an album can grab the listener’s attention at four in the morning, when the dust of the day has settled upon layer upon layer and yet with gratifying force can shake it off like a volcano shedding years of pressure in one gigantic explosion and the sleep that you thought needed is replaced by the urge to rage, pound and live.

Joel Hoekstra’s 13, Dying To Live. Album Review. full post

(356 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado, Songs From The Road. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In music there is no such thing as a fluke, there is no such thing as a happy co-incidence and despite the many one hit wonders that have littered and worried for a short while both the album and single charts around the world, it still takes skill, dedication and talent to have got even that far let alone become good enough to be recorded live as from Songs From The Road.

Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado, Songs From The Road. Album Review. full post

(458 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Joe Bonamassa, Live At Radio City Music Hall. Album Reviews.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you’re going to go big, if you aim to go bigger than the Vienna Opera House then there really are only two places you can go. Either you spend a week putting the glitz and glamour into perspective at the Royal Albert Hall or you take on the history associated with New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Everything else in between is straddled between beautiful venue after interesting city or going all out and serenading 200,000 people at Rock In Rio; Radio City Hall is as big as it gets without going over the top.

Joe Bonamassa, Live At Radio City Music Hall. Album Reviews. full post

(507 words, 1 image, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Operation: Mindcrime, The Key. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Many people have an opinion on Geoff Tate, the siren with a voice of silk former lead vocalist of Queensryche, some wandering through the lands of the idyllic and the muse, some disdainful of his achievements, especially away from the band that he was such a big part of for virtually all his adult life and certainly in the album Frequency Unknown for which there appeared two Queensryche’s upon the glistening sands of Progressive Metal.

Operation: Mindcrime, The Key. Album Review. full post

(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Dan Wilson, All Love Is Blind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Without the feeling of adoration, the heaviness of fondness and the tenderness that comes when love rears its nostalgic head and winks with the satisfaction of a school girl crush that turns into a long lasting marriage, life is not worth a jot. It has no meaning and even if it is just once, a pure and magical once that the stomach feels the tight knot of weakness at never wanting to see someone else cry, then it proves beyond measure that Love is worth every spent tear.

Dan Wilson, All Love Is Blind. Album Review. full post

(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Entwine, Chaotic Nation. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is the gift that keeps on giving, the tight control of the Scandinavian fist on the world of Metal, a fist that hammers home with vigour and force, the intelligent and the now customary. A fist that when opened holds a flower of acceptance into a world of Nordic style myths and legends that are ripe for the adaption of music and the sense of passion that Metal, when performed well and with undulating, heaving heart, more than captures the listener’s attention, it holds it for ransom and smiles with a soft caress.

Entwine, Chaotic Nation. Album Review. full post

(331 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

The Tirith, Tales From The Tower. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Progressive Rock never truly went away, it might have lost its bearing for a while, it might have been mugged and left battered and bruised, bereft of its credentials by the doubters, haters and the advent of Punk in all its glorious shades giving it perhaps a giant kicking when the beast had lumbered on long past its first revolution. Progressive Rock never went away, despite it all and since 2000 has really been in a rich vein of form that has seen it out last time wise past both its original incarnation and the short but glimmering second coming spearheaded by the likes of Marillion.

The Tirith, Tales From The Tower. Album Review. full post

(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Michael Monroe, Blackout States. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You can’t beat a good old fashioned Rock record, it has the power to turn around a day in your favour, it has the ability to shine its magnificent torch into areas of conscious that often go unexplored and it breathes for the chance to take the soul on a journey of discovery. Above all, if the lyrics strike home with perfect clarity, it has the capacity within each layered song to shake the foundations of the house to the point where the neighbours either complain or bang on the door, carrying a keg of beer and wanting to join in the party.

Michael Monroe, Blackout States. Album Review. full post

(397 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)