Single and EP Reviews

Welcome back Robert Jon & The Wreck, currently on tour supporting Blackberry Smoke, release a brand new single ‘Help Yourself’ on Joe Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records. Formed in Orange County, California, 2011, the song has a trademark straight from the heart lead vocal from Robert Jon Burrison, over laid back Southern …

Welcome back Scarborough, North Yorkshire based band This House We Built, and what a return as it takes some bravado, not to just attempt a song of this magnitude, but to put a twist on the John Farnham 1986 classic ‘You’re The Voice’, but to emerge with heads held high. …

Farnham based skate rockers, Kit Trigg have just released a very impressive four track EP, ‘Goin For Glory’, via Earache Digital Distribution. These tracks show great promise, point proven by the title track of the EP. An attention grabbing main riff drives this feelgood headbanger along, punctuated by shout em …

Welcome back Takeaway Thieves, who formed five years ago in Blackpool, recently releasing a new single ‘Sundance’, playing their biggest gig so far this weekend at Planet RockStock, Trecco Bay Holiday Park, Porthcawl, on Sunday, December 3rd which surely should have them singing, “Oh we do like to be beside …

Leaf Band UK, recommended to me by a friend, Julian Lloyd who saw the Stoke-On -Trent quartet recently at the Underground in Stoke, return with a recently released single, ‘Get Back On My Feet Again’. Pronouncing themselves as “A real rock band – No backing tracks allowed!”. Forming in 1992, …

My first hearing of The Rods was from their self titled album in 1980, followed up by Wild Dogs in 1982, two essential purchases of mine back then, but are the band still relevant almost forty five years later? Hell yeah they are, as they unleash a brand new single …

2024 looks like it’ll be off to a great start, as Joanne Shaw Taylor releases a new single, ‘Wild Love’, taken from a forthcoming studio, released by Joe Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records. She states, “I love this track, I wanted it to be dark and sexy. I think with the boy’s …

Beginning in 2011, Orange County, California rockers Robert Jon & The Wreck flex their muscles for their latest single ‘Hold On’. They proclaim,” It’s a powerful, classic rock track that hits close to the heart for touring musicians like us, pondering how long we can hold on to this life …

Welcome back These Wicked Rivers, as they unleash ‘Force Of Nature’, brand new single taken from a forthcoming album of the same name on March 1st 2024, via Fat Earth Records, and judging by the potency of the single, the album will be a must buy! The Derbyshire based five …

Wounded Cross return from the wastelands to unleash their latest single ‘Monument Of Bones’ to tackle the subject of our environment and focusing on climate change, asking, “What will be left of our planet if we continue down the path we’re on?” It’s the first single taken from an upcoming …

Welcome back to the lonesome cowboy on the trail, Troy Redfern, with his latest single ‘Getaway’, not to be confused with Troy Tempest from 60’s TV programme Stingray, although he does whip up a storm for four fiery minutes of hurricane damaging ferocity. Beginning with a guitar tone so dirty …

Photo credit : Laura Schneider. Songs don’t really get more touching as this as Elles Bailey releases ‘Mumma & Me’, a brand new release from Elles’ brand – new EP, due for release in early Spring 2024. She croons sublimely over soothing keyboard nuances, wringing every last drop of emotion …

Welcome back Joanne Shaw Taylor with her brand new single ‘Black Magic’, second single taken from a forthcoming studio album to be released by Joe Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records in 2024. Joanne proclaims, “I originally wrote the music for my album ‘Nobody’s Fool’, intending for it to be an instrumental called …

Montreal rockers The Damn Truth are back to blow your speakers and your minds with their brand new video single ‘I Just Gotta Let You Know’ to coincide with current UK dates supporting Glenn Hughes as well as headlining dates of their own. These four fiery minutes of the song …

Let’s welcome back The Midwich Affair who return as erm, erm, The Midwich Affair who have dropped their covers band gigs in return for original songs and judging by the strength of their first collaboration, ‘There’s Something In The Beat’ on Friday 13th October 2023, proves to be a lucky …

So just when I thought ‘Between Lune & Eden’ was the heaviest song that Vanitas have released, they prove me wrong by unleashing their latest single ‘Secrets’. The Birmingham based five piece band have certainly raised the heavy bar higher with an overwhelming rush of adrenaline fuelled metal, describing it …

It seems apt that ‘The Weekend’, debut single from Crewe based band ‘Chasing The Fall’ is released on Wednesday today, which is of course hump day and almost the weekend so we can rock out after a hard week! They’ve changed their band name from Mankind Arise recently and now …

Yeehaw pardners, it’s time to get the moonshine out and rejoice for the release of ‘Lover On The Side’ from Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton taken from their critically acclaimed album ‘Death Wish Blues’. The single and music video are ahead of the duo’s “Death Wish Blues” October 2023 UK …

Welcome back Felix Rabin who has just released a new single ‘As She Comes’, taken from a forthcoming EP to be released early 2024 via Damp Music. It’s blues but with a bite that flows along with a feelgood vibe. Vocals by Felix swoop and soar over snappy snare work, …

If you like your guitars raw and raging then look no further than Philip Sayce as he releases his first new music for three years, a single called “Oh That Witches Brew”, taken from a forthcoming studio album The Wolves Are Coming on his own record label Atomic Gemini on …