Still available at 50% discount introductory price through RED PLANET BOOKS. After reading the helpful guide at the beginning of the...

DOCTOR WHO SERIES GUIDES: THE WILLIAM HARTNELL YEARS (2022) THE JON PERTWEE YEARS (2023) THE SYLVESTER McCOY YEARS (2024) In preparation:...

Gentle acoustic guitar and Georgia Lamb’s vocalisation starts off opening track ‘Mad, Magic and Fire’, before Barry Lamb takes the lead...

I wrote in December, 2023 of the lead-off single: choppy organ chords, soaring flights of guitar, strident drums and percussion in a...

Thanks to NICK SALOMAN for the opportunity to listen to another new release from his Blue Matter label. The album starts with ‘Stars in...

A review and interview with TIM HUNTER Can I ask you why you have released your latest album "Connecting with Faith" under the name...

With the same band on board as “The Scale” (see separate review), I looked forward to listening to another album three years on. Although...

The opener is impressive: a basic drum pattern (Adam Fairclough) grounding the opening title track into a groove as French chanteuse...

“A Haunting at Sea” is a different kind of album from Steven McCabe than his long-lived ELEGANT SIMPLICITY project. For a start, it is...

So prolific is Bill Nelson that “Powertron” has had to wait 8 years for release, but listening to it I have no idea why it has taken this...

I have reviewed Kevin Kastning’s music before on DISS. On this Kevin plays contra and subcontra guitars with 16, 24 and 36 strings. In...

Further to information regarding MARTIN C STRONG's "Great Rock Bible" please note that the introductory price is now £50 - that's around...

With remastering by Stephen W Tayler, the two CDs offer bonus tracks with alternative mixes and first/ second takes of some of the...

MARTIN C STRONG has sent a picture of the finished book so I can confirm that the long-awaited successor to his popular Great Rock...

In alphabetical order (maximum of 3 reissues per 10, all from 2024 & reviewed in 2024): please note genres are nearest approximations....

Janel Leppin has appeared on numerous albums encompassing various genres, and as a member of PRIESTS. She is joined on her latest...

Can it really be that long? I still remember getting CDs and promo packages with glossy photographs of the artists in the post. With...

Electronica, dream pop, shoegaze, darkwave, trip-hop, art rock, comparisons with THE CURE, Pinhdar have been creating quite a stir in...

There are two sides to Cristiano Varisco’s music: one as an acoustic guitar player, the other as an electric guitarist, and it proves...

John Battema (of EPHEMERAL SUN) has created four tracks of piano/ synth-based music statring with ‘The Sun Comforts the Night at Dawn’...