DAMANEK – Making Shore (Album Review)
For whatever reason, the first two records by Damanek more or less flew under the radar. And that’s a shame, for they are well-worth the…
Author Mark Boardman
Mark Boardman
Mark Boardman's first concert was The Beatles at the Indiana State Fair in 1964. Since then, he's seen hundreds of bands and shows and accumulated way too many records, cassettes, CD's, Blue Rays, downloads, etc. He began reviewing music in the 1970s and has done so ever since. Mark also writes about the Old West and is pastor of a small United Methodist church in Indiana.
THRESHOLD – Dividing Lines (Album Review)
What did you do during the pandemic? If you’re the English prog-metal group Threshold, you plow right ahead with the next project. It turns out…
THRESHOLD’S Keyboardist/Composer RICHARD WEST Talks Recent Album “Dividing Lines”, Upcoming Projects, His Just Released Autobiography Book and More: “We Wrote the Best Songs We Could Come Up With, Without Thinking About Topping Our Previous Record”
For Threshold keyboardist and composer Richard West, the Covid-19 quarantines could have meant that he had too much time on his hands. No live gigs.…
KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD Talks 25th Anniversary Release of Landmark “Trouble Is” Album: ‘After a Quarter Century the Music is Still As Good As We Remembered, And We’ll Play it Live As Close to the Originals as Possible’
On December 2nd, the five-time-Grammy-nominated guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd will release ‘The Trouble Is…25,’ a top-to-bottom reinterpretation of his seminal album “Trouble Is…,” which struck…
Chagall Guevara – Halcyon Days (Album Review)
Let’s take the way-back machine to 1992. A Nashville band is on the cusp of making it big. They’ve had videos on MTV. They’ve gotten…
Melanie Mau & Martin Schnella – Invoke the Ghosts (Album Review)
There are certain artists whose works make me into a fanboy. I eagerly await each release. I listen to the new music over and over…
Ghost – Impera (Album Review)
Tobias Forge is a seer. A prophet. A diviner. I know. That’s quite a statement from a protestant pastor (that would be me) when talking…
Knight Area – D-Day II: The Final Chapter (Album Review)
Three years ago, the Dutch band Knight Area came out with a remarkable album called D-Day. It marked the 75th anniversary of that crucial action…
NICK D’VIRGILIO Tells How He, NEAL MORSE and ROSS JENNINGS Arranged Beautiful Music on “Troika” Album: We Trusted Our Voices Will Blend Well Together, and Months Went By Before We Listened to the Three Of Us Together in a Track”
Nick D’Virgilio is one of the most versatile musicians in rock. Drummer par excellence, who has handled sticks for Big Big Train, Spock’s Beard and…
Out of This World – Out of This World (Album Review)
Kee Marcello must be in a musical wayback machine. Or he has a sense of humor. His new band (and their self-titled album) is called…
