May 2021

Even after a heart attack Ton Scherpenzeel still feels like KAYAK

4. May 2021

Ton Scherpenzeel can't let it go. The 68-year-old is a musician through and through, neither Corona nor a heart attack, which he suffered in October 2019, stops him. For 49 years now (with a long break between 1981 and 1999) he has been the boss of Kayak, arguably the most important Dutch prog rock band besides Focus. Whereas: he would disagree with the last sentence, because he says: "We could play a concert exclusively with prog music, yes. But we are not a prog band. That would only be half the truth."

Older and healthier, RYLEY WALKER finds himself on "Course In Fable"

4. May 2021

Ryley Walker

Unwrapping an album by Ryley Walker is always a bit like freeing a Christmas present from its wrapping paper. If you like Walker, you know you can't be disappointed, and yet it's always completely open what exactly is waiting inside the wrapping. Currently Ryley has two new albums under his belt, the song album "Course In Fable" on his own new label Husky Pants and a drone album with Chicago permanent innovator David Grubbs.

With "A Secret To Hide" POVERTY'S NO CRIME start into their anniversary year

4. May 2021

Poverty’s No Crime

Poverty's No Crime are rich. Rich in experience, after all, the band has existed for 30 years, 20 of which were completed in the current line-up alone. Rich in creativity, with "A Secret To Hide" the number of released albums rises to eight. And rich in musical competence, their melodic progressive metal has maintained an amazing qualitative and stylistic consistency over all this time.

Even Corona can't shake the newcomers of IVY GOLD on their debut

4. May 2021

Ivy Gold

"We didn't actually plan to make an album, and certainly not to make it this big," says singer Manou, still seeming a bit baffled when it comes to why and how the rather private project with husband Sebastian Eder, ex-guitarist of prog-metallers Avalon, eventually turned into a band with a remarkable line-up and the debut "Six Dusty Winds". "We started writing together and eventually these ten, twelve songs were ready. Which we also wanted to record, but more or less just for us. Sebastian then pre-produced the songs.

CAMERON GRAVES brings jazz rock and thrash metal to a common denominator on "Seven"

4. May 2021

Cameron Graves

Nine o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles. Cameron Graves has not yet practiced the piano, but he has already completed his daily martial arts program. He especially appreciates the meditative aspect of Xingyiquan and reports that his mentor Stanley Clarke is also a big martial arts fan.

Even after a heart attack Ton Scherpenzeel still feels like KAYAK

Older and healthier, RYLEY WALKER finds himself on "Course In Fable"

With "A Secret To Hide" POVERTY'S NO CRIME start into their anniversary year

Even Corona can't shake the newcomers of IVY GOLD on their debut

CAMERON GRAVES brings jazz rock and thrash metal to a common denominator on "Seven"

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