Johnny Cash starts with Johnny 99, the title track of his 1983 album released just a year after Springsteen's Nebraska, with his own distinctive drawl and guitar twang, demonstrating that the Boss's songs have all the necessary country ingredients. The more traditional Travis Tritt then employs an arsenal of cliches on Tougher Than The Rest. .... [Steve Earle] delivers a brooding, almost menacing live version of State Trooper. [Jul 2025, p.86]

‘NEVER ENOUGH’ covers a massive expanse whilst also maintaining the core of Turnstile we fell in love with on ‘Pressure To Succeed’. And succeed they have.

It's tip-top stuff. [Jul 2025, p.81]

Their alt.rock energy remains, but their overwrought nu-metal bombast is dialled down. [Jul 2025, p.74]

One of the band's most reflective releases (here she works toward acceptance of the fragility of her body while also reasserting its many strengths) but also one of their most defiant. [Jul 2025, p.78]

Unatoned isn't the best Machine Head alum, but it's a top-tier one for sure. [Jun 2025, p.75]

On sturdy, soulful vocals, Richard Watts is again Trower's mouthpiece for these well-observed songs (his concerns include culture wars and the clock's now-deafening tick). But the truest expression comes from the guitarist's extended freeform solos. [Jun 2025, p.77]

Anything goes, and dizzyingly does. .... Taste that? It's fresh air. [Jun 2025, p.71]

The woman's on fire. [Jun 2025, p.70]

Delicious. [Jun 2025, p.75]

Its shorter, pacier tracks up the dynamism, making for a pummelling - if somewhat relentless - experience as deep-strata hardcore tracks like Detroit and Blackage shift gears into more ponderous interludes. [Jun 2025, p.72]

Buzz is in full-on demented rock-god mode (Victory Of The Pyramids), a full-throttle sludge trash that out-Hawkwinds even the mighty Hawkwind themselves. [Jun 2025, p.71]

Thematically it’s a steady path, although musically Dream Into It is fairly erratic and offers quite a disjointed listening experience as it jumps from style to style. [Jun 2025, p.70]

Hawkwind sit in 2025 alongside the kosmische likes of Berlin’s Arcane Allies, making similar forays into space. It’s all good – and this is certainly good. [Jun 2025, p.74]

It’s enchanting rock’n’roll that might well tempt you into selling your soul – if only for one night of sweet soft-metal abandon. [Jun 2025, p.72]

Stronger melodies, more powerful performances, now an emphatic lead [Maiah Wynne], it's as if she's finally decided to step out of her famed compatriots' shadow and taken centre stage. The band have expanded musically, too. [May 2025, p.74]

They've crafted their most focused, direct and unburdened collection yet. [May 2025, p.74]

Six albums in, The Horrors sound fresher than ever. [May 2025, p.75]

The result is varied, strange and engaging. [May 2025, p.75]

Same edgy, post-punk, anything-could-happen-next discomfort about them [as 90s band Compulsion]. Which is nice. [May 2025, p.79]

Their hearts are in the right place, but their percussion needs pumping. [May 2025, p.79]

A wonderful return. [May 2025, p.79]

An album preoccupied lyrically with past, present and future is matched by music that is sleek, chromium-plated, retro-futurist. [May 2025, p.73]

Charming result. [May 2025, p.74]

Unexpected diversions into country honk (Cold Hearted Woman, Hot On My Tail) and cinematic balladry (Weekend In Rome) may also raise eyebrows among diehards. But when the storm clouds clear, the band's innate pop sensibilities shine as brightly as ever. [Apr 2025, p.76]

While this largely live covers set doesn't necessarily flex the Welsh guitarist's creative muscles, it confirms him as a musician who has the genre under his fingernails. [Mar 2025, p.75]

Curious Ruminant will not sate anybody’s desire for a tub-thumping Tull album, but Anderson seems to be beyond that now. Instead his mind is overflowing with lyrical tangents and still capable of dispensing hooks, and he’s entering the final stages in fine fettle. [Apr 2025, p.70]

A bit mad, but utterly compelling. [Apr 2025, p.77]