Soundchecks Music Review

Channeling power through simplicity can be a hazardous affair. For example, Gary Numan’s 1979 effort The Pleasure Principle, aside from the pop aesthetics found on the track Cars, aptly demonstrated […]

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On the cover, they’re silhouetted like three guitar-totin’ Charlie’s Angels. Inside, they form a Blues Caravan of performers, each with their own solo back-catalogues, playing together live in the […]

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Extraordinarily talented singer-songwriters Catherine (lead guitar) and Susan Hay (bass guitar) are twin sisters with Louise Brooks’ style hairdos. Their younger brother Alex is the drummer. Surprisingly, they’re […]

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We all know the story, how Paul McCartney intended Please Please Me as a maudlin Roy Orbison-inspired ballad, but how George Martin thought differently. He got them to speed it […]

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When you flip the CD from the jewel-case it reveals the wrinkled white contours of a human brain. Is this some kind of metaphor? Not quite. There’s an […]

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Those of you familiar with Agonia Records know well that this label releases nothing but the bone grinding sounds of extremity. So, it comes as no surprise that […]

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Alessandra Belloni is a very busy woman. She is a singer, percussionist, dancer, actress (she had a part in the Francis Ford Coppola movie The Godfather Part II), the […]

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What an interesting way to subvert your listener’s expectations: start your album with one of the weaker tracks. Fire starts of like a mid-1970s’ rock track with fine, gentle musicianship, […]

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Produced and (mostly) written by Paul Simon, with ‘sonic landscape’ contributions from Brian Eno, and featuring veteran Steve Gadd on drums, this is Simon’s first album since You’re The […]

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Because I know nothing, I found a review somewhere and, having read that this was a sort of Sinatra, Roxy Music kind of thing, I thought, that’s for […]

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