Album Reviews

  Mississippi Blues gets a Shakedown Album review by Angela Madden   Turn up the volume on this one, Chris Russell wants to be heard. Shakedown was released in mid 2013, and is the second album from Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk; following on from their self-titled debut CD which was released just seven months prior […]

  Album review by Angela Madden   Cash Savage is slowly gaining due respect as a highly-regarded artist of her times. An “acclaimed jewel of dark country blues” as one previous reviewer has penned. Her sound is blues. Country. Gospel-esque at times. Dirty. Dark. In fact over-archingly dark.   Above all her music is full of […]

  Burn to Shine : Channelling the music of a golden era Album Review by Angela Madden   Burn Antares are a five-piece group based out of the Northern Beaches of Sydney. These young folks have been playing together for two and a half years, and the self-titled EP we are featuring this week is […]

  Channelling some seventies funk into modern-day Melbourne Album review by Angela Madden   ‘The Cactus Channel’ is a 10 piece Funk and Soul ensemble based out of Melbourne. These guys formed in high-school back in 2009, aged around 14yo, and, amazingly, the core 5 members of the group have stayed constant since that time. […]

  Beards prove a hair-raisingly good formula Album review by Angela Madden    You probably won’t believe me, but Novelty-Hair-Rockers ‘The Beards’ have just released their fourth album all about beards. Yes indeed, one topic yielding four albums. Theirlatest offering is simply titled ‘The Beard Album’ and was released on 9th May. The album name […]