Category Archives: CD Review

CD Review Paul Simon Stranger To Stranger Concord Records 2016 Producers: Paul Simon and Roy Halee Review: Dave Leary ✰✰✰✰ If there were a Mount Rushmore of American songwriters, Paul Simon would have to be on it. This is his … Continue reading →

CD Review Cheap Trick Bang, Zoom, Crazy…Hello Big Machine Records 2016 Produced By: Julian Raymond & Cheap Trick ✰✰✰½ Review: Joseph Suto Upon first listen to Cheap Trick’s seventeenth studio release, one thing is certain, this ageless band are showing … Continue reading →

CD Review Gwen Stefani This Is What The Truth Feels Like Interscope Records 2016 Review: Joseph Suto ✰✰✰ It was no doubt surprising that it has been 10 years since The Sweet Escape, Gwen Stefani’s last solo album was released. … Continue reading →

CD Review Brandy Clark Big Day In A Small Town Warner/ Slate Creek 2016 ✰✰✰✰✰ Review: Thom Jennings   Singer-songwriter Brandy Clark’s follow up to her Grammy nominated debut album 12 Stories arrives June 10. The concept album Big Day … Continue reading →

CD Review Megadeth Dystopia 2016 T-Boy Records/UMe ✰✰✰✰½ Review: Robert Winans Megadeth’s Dystopia album is a huge step forward from their last album. Their previous work Super Collider was thought by most to be largely an audio audacity, and wondered … Continue reading →

CD Review Def Leppard Def Leppard Mailboat Records 2015 Review: Joseph Suto ✰✰✰✰½ Def Leppard have dropped their first album in some seven years, marking their biggest gap ever between studio releases. The self-titled release is the band’s first since … Continue reading →