In the before times, I enjoyed a band called Airbourne. I’m pretty sure they were Australian, and they sounded remarkably like AC/DC. Highly recommended. So, on the list of available albums, I saw Airborn‘s Lizard Secrets Part 3: Utopia (Fighter Records) and figured I’d give it a shot. Very glad I did. This Italian group delivers a Power Metal tour de force. Bonus, the vocals pitch up in a range most of us can reach.
Van Halen’s eighties classic “Panama” was heard in a Superbowl 59 TV commercial touting the 2025 line of Dodge RAM Trucks. The track comes from the bands’ iconic hit album 1984 (Warner Brothers) Themed on the fable “Goldilocks and The Three Bears” actor Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick, Twisters) drives three different trucks while the anthemic song plays! Watch the commercial below. Continue reading
Success came quickly and early for UK indie pop quartet Bastille, topping the album charts in their home territory with their 2013 debut. Top 5 accomplishments followed for each subsequent album; a run the band is looking to continue with their fourth album, Give Me The Future (EMI), a release that arrives with a fair dose of expectation. Predecessor, Doom Days, critically, didn’t hit the heights of the band’s first two full-length outings, but the lead-off singles from …Future gave assurance that all was back on track.