Jupiter Variation

Music, one of the strongest forms of artistic expression, has been throughout history the target of every oppressive religious or...

Spending my Saturday mornings crate digging around flea markets is one of my most relaxing activities. In the times of vinyl stock-market...

In what maybe small news for the "ordinary" people but pure pleasure for the record collector nerds, I was - thanks to some stock...

"Digging" through my record collection is one of my favourite recreation activities. Having a collection built in the last 30 years and...

Most rock stars have their audiences so cowed it’s nauseating. What blessed justice it would be if all rock stars had to contend with...

I really dislike cliché categorisations of artists and music to "trendy" genres. I do not consider myself a professional music writer or...

Back in the early 2000s it was the period when Mathcore was the "Toast of the Town" and during that time I was purchasing, mainly via...

I bought this album back in 2003 (that is more than 10 years after its original release) mainly driven by my newly (at that time)...

Ever since I made the post about the debut album of Carmen Maki, I felt the urge to "complete" it by writing about the first two albums...

Greek Punks 1985 (Photo Credits : Giorgos Tourkovassilis) The usual perception about "music taste" in Greece is that it is a country...

Some of this week's most exciting news were about the upcoming official re-release (by Relapse Records) of G.I.S.M.s classic 1983 album...

This is an obscure, even though not (anymore) rare album by a band whose activity is difficult to be tracked on the internet (this is to...

"The first Whitesnake Album", "The Bolin/Coverdale Album", "Not a Real Deep Purple Album" are some of the titles that Come Taste the Band...

In one of my previous blogposts I was referring to the way I "consume" printed media nowadays and especially to my appreciation for...

It was my adoration for extreme and technical genres -like mathcore- that lead me to explore Jazz. Improvisation, creativity and freedom...

This is an album behind which lies a tragic and unfair story, a story which also shows how greedy and exploitative the music industry...

Wire magazine has placed Illuminations amongst its '100 Albums that Set the World on Fire While No-One was Listening'. Steve Hackett of...

The post about Carmen Maki, served as an inspiration to present one more female Asian artist that created music which "defied" the...

It has been (and still is) a very busy period and one of my little personal relaxation/decompression rituals is my Saturday night...

The post about OXZ provided me the idea to explore deeper the "Japanese" part of my collection and I think that there is no better way to...