Night Ranger: Somewhere in California

Sep 20,2011
No real surprises here. If you like Night Ranger, you’ll love it. If you don’t, this probably won’t change your mind. The fact remains, though, that Brad Gillis and Joel Hoekstra dish out massive, high-gain rhythms and More...

Various Artists Guitar Masters Vol 3 amp 4 Les Paul Dedication

Sep 1,2010
Though this album starts out with Les Paul and his Trio doing “Why Do I Love You,” it’s really a collection of instrumental tunes by a cadre of great players, including Jeff Beck, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Vai, Chris Poland, More...

Bang Data Maldito Carnaval

Sep 1,2010
People who know Dave Lopez’s guitar work from his old band Flipsyde will find a lot to dig about his playing in Bang Data. Lopez provides his take on rock, Latin, flamenco, and reggae guitar with catchy hooks and cool More...

Percy Jones Scott McGill Ritchie DeCarlo Percy Jones Scott McGill Ritchie DeCarlo

Sep 1,2010
Guitarist Scott McGill rips, roars, soars, and shreds like crazy on this entirely fearless and exquisitely intense fusion masterpiece. Backed by legendary fretless bassist Percy Jones (Brand X, Eno, Soft Machine) and More...

Dweezil Zappa The Return of the Son Of

Sep 1,2010
This 2-CD set features live performances that were recorded over the last two years. The band sounds tight and inspired on these classic Frank Zappa tunes, which include “Zomby Woof,” “The Torture Never Stops,” “Montana,” More...

Ozzy Osbourne Scream

Sep 1,2010
Ozzy’s done it again. He’s partnered with another badass guitarist to follow in the footsteps of Randy Rhoads and Zakk Wylde. This time it’s Gus G who dishes out big riffs and great solos. His jaw-dropping licks in “Let More...

Erdem Helvacioglu amp Per Boysen Sub City 2064

Sep 1,2010
Turkey’s Helvacioglu (electric guitar, GuitarViol) and Sweden’s Boysen (flute, sax, EWI, fretless and dropped-B electrics) masterfully employ looping and sophisticated electronics to craft uncommonly deep, intelligent, and More...

Jeff Healy Last Call

Sep 1,2010
This final collection of trio and solo jazz/swing tunes highlights the affection and connection that Healy had for a variety of musical styles. His guitar playing and vocals—along with occasional trumpet outings—on such More...

Rusty Anderson Born on Earth

Oct 1,2010
From the fuzz-soaked title track to the lilting “Where Would We Go?” to the stratospheric-sounding instrumental “Intro,” Anderson creates a vast expanse of sonic textures and melodic and lyrical diversity on his second solo More...

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Couldnt Stand the Weather—Legacy Edition

Oct 1,2010
It is still amazing to hear how energized and vital SRV’s first platinumselling album sounds. Disc 1 contains all of the original songs, plus 11 studio outtakes, three of which have never been released. Disc 2 is More...

Henry Kaiser, A Little Stroke of Light (with audio)

May 4,2011
This 70 minute-long piece of music resulted from what was supposed to be ten minutes of entirely unplanned improvisation. Playing a Trans-Trem-equipped Kline guitar with Alembic pickups into an Old World Audio 1960 compressor, a More...

Sir Clive & the Raging Cartographers, Guitar Safari

Mar 6,2011
On this adventurous disc, guitarist/bassist Pete Prown, drummer Phil Robertson, and organist “Count d’Farfiso” dish up 11 tracks of raging “surf” music that is, um, all over the map, sounding like combinations of the B-52s, More...

Razl, Microscopic

Jan 24,2012
On this follow up to 2008’s excellent Rotonova, Spanish guitarist Raúl Huelves (a.k.a. Razl) leads a power trio featuring bassist extraordinaire Bryan Beller and deep-pocket drummer Pepe Acebal—with cameos from guitarist Will More...

Rez Abbasi’s Invocation, Suno Suno

Jan 24,2012
On his eighth release, the Pakistani-American jazz composer and guitarist further consolidates his cross-continental amalgam of musical styles, this time more fully assimilating the Sufi devotional music known as qawwali—though More...

Steinar Gregertsen Standing Next to a Mountain A Tribute to the Music of Jimi Hendrix

Feb 25,2011
Covering Hendrix tunes— let alone recording an entire album of them—is risky business. Yet in this case, the superb musicianship, sublime tones, and superlative arrangements justify the effort. Gregertsen’s lap-steel and More...

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