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STEVE ROSEN's BOOK ABOUT EDDIE VAN HALEN
Music journalist and Guitar World magazine correspondent STEVEN ROSEN's book about his long friendship with EDDIE VAN HALEN has been...
Mar 4, 20241 min read
PENNY GRENNAN – NO RELATION (2023) (Penny Grennan Music/ Bandcamp)
This is English singer songwriter, guitar, ukelele and banjo player Penny Greenman’s first album. The style ranges from folk to bluegrass...
Feb 19, 20241 min read
INSIDE OUT: EINAR SOLBERG’s acoustic rendition of LEPRUS’s “The Congregation”
Just Einar on vocal on piano: pure bliss. Only two tracks available on BANDCAMP at the moment, but can be pre-ordered as digital download...
Feb 7, 20241 min read
PAKT – LIVE IN COLUMBUS and LIVE IN PHILADELPHIA (2023) (Moon June)
Back in the twilight zone, the improvisational quartet of Percy Jones on bass, Alex Skolnick on guitars, Tim Motzer on guitar and...
Feb 5, 20242 min read
DIMENSIONS-IN-SOUND-AND-SPACE DIGEST - ARCHIVE 2023
To search our website please click on the month at the left-hand side OR the general categories along the top: Doctor Who/ Film & TV/...
Jan 30, 20244 min read
DISS DIGEST – NAVIGATING THE SITE
For the convenience of newcomers to the site and those wishing to explore if further, Phil compiled a ‘digest’ listing everything on the...
Jan 30, 20241 min read
PAKT - NO STEPS TO TRACE (2024) (Moon June Records) (2024) (2 x CD and 2 x LP) (release date - February 15th)
Welshman Percy Jones has a long history as a widely admired and innovative bass player, most famously with BRAND X (1974-1980 and...
Jan 30, 20243 min read
KEVIN KASTNING/ SOHEIL PEYGHAMBARI – THE SECOND REALM (2024) (Greydisc)
An international enterprise involving: Kevin Kastning on 36-string double contraguitar (which he invented), 24-string double...
Jan 30, 20242 min read
NEWS OF RECORD FAIRS IN SCOTLAND (February, 2024)
I got a message from the fair organiser Andrew Naylor thanking customers for turning up in (yet more) adverse weather conditions for the...
Jan 30, 20242 min read
FJALL – FROM THE ROUGH HILL (Discus) (2023)
Turn the lights low (or off) and play this intriguing album late at night and a quite unique atmosphere is created. The twin drumming of...
Jan 15, 20241 min read
THE BOY AND THE HERON (2023/24)
I couldn’t miss the chance of a new Miyazaki film; the famed writer and director is now in his eighties and keeps coming out of...
Jan 15, 20241 min read
TIM HUNTER - EBOROCKEM (2023)
One-man musician and historian Tim Hunter’s latest concept album concerns four significant figures in the history of York: firstly,...
Jan 15, 20241 min read


REMEMBER LONG LIVE VINYL MAGAZINE?
A lavishly produced and erudite magazine (Anthem Publishing) LONG LIVE VINYL announced in August, 2020 that “after more than 40 print...
Jan 15, 20243 min read
DIMENSIONS-IN-SOUND-AND-SPACE ARCHIVE 2023
To search our website please click on the month at the left-hand side OR the general categories along the top: Doctor Who/ Film & TV/...
Dec 28, 20234 min read
NEWS FROM HIRO KAWAHARA (HERETIC)
Visitors to this site may recall my review of a compilation of Hiro Kawahara AKA Heretic’s works on Cuneiform Records. Hiro has contacted...
Dec 28, 20231 min read
DOCTOR WHO – WILD BLUE YONDER (2023): regeneration or degradation?
The second of three planned anniversary specials starring the Fourteenth Doctor sees the show get back to some basics, but there’s still...
Dec 12, 20232 min read
KRAAN – ZOUP (2023) and PORTA WESTFALICA (1975/2023)
Quite by chance I came upon a new Kraan record released on 24th November; I had no idea they were still around, but HELMUT HATTLER...
Dec 2, 20231 min read
THE WORST OF DOCTOR WHO – WHAT IS THE TRUTH?
Now that the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who has come and gone, fans are looking to the specials which are due to broadcast over the...
Dec 2, 20233 min read
DOCTOR WHO “THE STAR BEAST” – 26th November, 2023: AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
I couldn’t disagree more with one newspaper that drooled over this latest mishmash that Doctor Who has sadly become. An alien spaceship...
Dec 2, 20231 min read
SPOTIFY’S RELEASE RADAR TOP 10
Although, as those who know me know, I prefer physical product, especially vinyl, which is getting rather expensive these days! However,...
Nov 21, 20232 min read
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