January 5th, 2009 by Gerard McGarry. Tags: Kings Of Leon, Queen, The Black Keys
Well…2008 is over, and almost a week later, here I am with my first post of the year.
I find this time of year is like a musical wasteland. You’ve got the remnants of 2008’s single releases still littering up the charts, and the promise of some new music over the coming weeks. Soon, the BBC will release their predictions for the hottest acts of the year in their Sound of 2009 poll. That’ll take some of the guesswork out of who to watch this year.
As for me, what have I been listening to over Christmas? Well, a very kind publicist sent me The Black Keys’ Attack And Release album, which has been on constant rotation for me lately. I really must sit down and do a proper review of it for you, because it’s excellent. Not the most immediate album in the world, but persevere with it and you’ll be rewarded.
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August 24th, 2008 by Gerard McGarry. Tags: 2008, Queen
Otherwise known as ‘the drummer and guitarist from Queen hooking up with the vocalist from Free’.
There’s good news and bad news with this new single from Queen (+ Paul Rodgers). The good news is that it’s got some heavy riff-laden brilliance attached to it.
Brian May’s guitar work shows that he’s still got the chops (not the lamb chops – the guitar ones), and Paul Rodgers brings a powerful, bluesy voice to proceedings. OK, he’s never going to throw on a canary yellow jacket and give us Freddie MK2.
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July 31st, 2008 by Gerard McGarry. Tags: 2008, Paul Rodgers, Queen
Just when you thought they’d cashed in on the Queen name enough, Brian May and Roger Taylor (along with not-quite-Freddy frontman Paul Rodgers) are squeezing a few quid more out of fans desperate to hear a bit more Queen.
The new album – the first since their Made In Heaven album in 1995 – is to be called The Cosmos Rocks. Looking back to when we first talked about the possibility of a new album in November last year, we were obviously pretty excited.
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November 30th, 2007 by Gerard McGarry. Tags: AIDS, Nelson Mandela, Paul Rodgers, Queen
I read over on Billboard this morning that the collaborative venture that is Queen + Paul Rodgers will be releasing their first single together. Called Say It’s Not True, the song is a Roger Taylor composition.
While Taylor performed the song acoustically during the band’s tour, it has been re-recorded with vocals shared by all three members – Paul Rodgers, Brian May and Taylor himself.
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