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MUSIC REVIEW MARCH 2010 Music Reviews You Can Use
If you think finding good NEW music is about as impossible as finding a well paved road in
After all the radio only plays the same old Led Zeppelin and Stones songs, a bunch of oldies and a zillion new songs meant just for marketing pimple cream to kids, so I’d see why you might think that it’s over and there’s nothing good anymore for you.
GOOD NEWS! There still is great new music out there for people who like new music even if they are over 40, and it doesn’t mean having to buy a re-mastered classic that you’ve already owned 4 times!
Fact is the media just doesn’t make it easy for people like us to find this music unless we seek it out. That’s what this page is about, here you will find suggestions and reviews for new music that we feel people with good taste (like you) will enjoy. Just because we have grey hair (if any at all) doesn’t mean will still can’t crank it up and rock out!
REED & DICKINSON- TONIGHT WE RIDE
TGIF MUSIC 2010
Here we have a Detroit super group made up of Alto Reed (Silver Bullet Band), Steve Dickinson (actually from Canada, Stampeders and Jeff Healy), Bobby East (Kid Rock), Jeff Fowlkes (Robert Bradley, Kid Rock & Uncle Kracker) and guests Jimmy McCarty, Johnny Bee Bedanjek, Jimmie Bones and Ty Stone. A pretty impressive list of veteran rockers to say the least!
Tonight We Ride is a quality blue collar effort for those who enjoy a more mature
Yes, it’s kinda dated but that isn’t a bad thing, there’s nothing wrong with the rock sound from a few years back as long as it rocks and "Tonight We Ride" does just that. Check out “Guilty” and “Wild As A Hurricane”, heck., check out the whole album while your at it, ten bucks well spent. ~ M Himes
JOHNNY CASH-AMERICAN VI: AIN'T NO GRAVE
AMERICAN RECORDS 2010
The Man in Black and the man with the beard (Rick Rubin) release the sixth and final album from the famous “American” series of acclaimed, stripped down, honest and brutally human recordings of the legendary Johnny Cash.
I love this stuff but I don’t always like the feelings this truly beautiful, open and raw music brings out in me. It can bring you to tears how open and real Johnny can be knowing he is dying and putting it all out plain and simple about as human as I’ve ever heard a man be on a recording. Powerful stuff from an amazing talent, it just doesn’t get any more deep and moving than this. You’d have to be dead yourself not to feel the emotions that are served up on this album. Thank you Johnny for the feelings you bring out in me and the music you’ve given all of us over your career, God Bless! ~ M Himes
RADIO MOSCOW-BRAIN CYCLES
ALIVE RECORDS 2009
Story, Iowa is smack dab in the middle of the state, population of just over 3,000 and a couple of the residents there make up the group Radio Moscow. I doubt that many rock greats have even been anywhere near the city but that certainly didn’t stop Parker Griggs and Zach Anderson the duo who make up Radio Moscow from rocking like rock legends.
This is their second album and it picks up right where they left off giving us 10 songs of non stop driving rock the way rock was intended to be. Call it psychedelic rock or classic rock style, call it straight ahead Zeppelin like with a tad of Hendrix with no gimmicks or over production, call it whatever this album simply rocks!
You wouldn’t know this record came out in 2009, it sounds like a recently discovered classic from the era of real peddle to the medal guitar rock and is certainly well worth a try. In fact I recommend both of their releases.
Rock lives on with Radio Moscow! ~ M Himes
JET-SHAKA ROCK
REAL HORROR SHOW RECORDS 2009
A couple of years ago Jet was all the rage, rocking the airwaves and countless TV commercials as they seemed like the next best thing from down under since AC/DC or the vegemite sandwich.
Call it the media hype curse or maybe even arrogant egotistical self explosion but their next release “Shine On” was AWOL. It was like they had a disease and no one touched the record and if you gave it a listen you’d understand why, it was dark and lifeless and simply burnt out, maybe that was it they were simply burnt out?
So “Shaka Rock” comes out on a new label and although it doesn’t get the attention or acclaim as the classic “Get Here” record, they finally get back to their sound and energy. Jet is a good rock band with a garage sound, simple hooks and nice melodies, everything rock needs to bend my ear. I had the pleasure to see them a few years ago, about 3 months before “Get Born” was released, at the Knitting Factory and they grabbed me instantly, a great live band I thought with sounds from AC/DC to the Rolling Stones. I could do without there slower songs but the effort here is solid and well worth a listen. It doesn’t capture the magic of “Get Born” but is still a very solid effort, welcome back Jet!
THE RUMP SHAKERS-URBAN DECAY
FUNKY D RECORDS 2009
Urban Decay is loaded with some good quality bare bones, don’t give a shit, blues rock gems with twisted and fun lyrics brought to you by a tight but free band that makes you want to put the top down on your 1975 Bonneville and take a rocking road trip as suggested in the song “Boogie Through The Night”.
Toss in some Canned Heat with the Black Keys and some Howlin’ Wolf all with a
