SMALLTALK “PLUS!” CD & 2xLP ORDER NOW – CLICK HERE Lovelorn, conversation-like lyrics, guitars jangling over pounding rhythms, an idiosyncratic vocal style, and a healthy nod to any number of old-school indie-pop and post-punk acts; Smalltalk takes the finest aspects of Echo and the Bunnymen and the Cure’s less lethargic emotions and propels it thirty […]

SEASIDE CAVES DEBUT SELF-TITLED 10″ EP ORDER NOW – CLICK HERE Seaside Caves are a dreamy smear of sticky lipgloss across a sullen, shadowed face; hazy androgen neu-wave pop from the New Jersey shore. This is their debut EP. Five tracks of big 80s John Hughes pop choruses, melancholic vocals, weltschmerz synths, bleak chorused bass, glittering […]

Brainticket is scheduled to appear at 2013 SXSW Music Festival. More information to come.

December 7, 2012, Los Angeles – Cleopatra Records is sad to pass on the news that Hawkwind guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton has passed at the too-young age of 61. Huw had been bravely battling cancer for the past several years and died peacefully at home in England with his devoted wife Marion by his side.

Source: Muzikreviews.com By: Jim “The Ancient One” Lawson Rating: 4 Stars Curved Air, the British prog rock band, were formed back in the depths of time, well, 1970 to be exact. The original members came from mixed musical backgrounds and their sound was a mixture of prog rock, folk rock and fusion with classical elements. They were one of the first bands to feature a violin as a lead instrument. This album, AirWaves, is a remastered version of the 1995 […]

By: Ian D. Hall Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * Mix the industrial with a healthy dollop of some of the finest exponents of Progressive Rock, some genre crossing of dubstep and Heavy Metal and finally one of the megastars and iconic figures of Science Fiction film and television and you have the superb new Blackburner album Planet Earth Attack in all its grandiose and lavish glory. William Shatner, the one and only Captain Kirk from television’s […]

By: Greg Barbrick When I first heard that there was to be an album featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performing the music of Rush I had no idea what to expect. In the ‘70s, Rush recorded a number of extended pieces which definitely had potential to be adapted into the classical world. It is a different world today though, and the era of the 20-minute song seems very long ago and far away. Out of curiosity more than anything else, […]

By: Nick DeRiso The intrigue of compilations like this is when seemingly incongruent artists successfully combine, or when somebody turns a familiar tune inside out. Who Are You: An All Star Tribute to the Who — due October 2, 2012, from Cleopatra Records — offers its share of both. The set opens with John Wetton, who always sings like his life is in the balance, tearing into the 1982 Who track “Eminence Front.” He turns out to be a perfect […]

By: Greg Barbrick The Outlaws may not be as well remembered today as such Southern Rock luminaries as Lynyrd Skynyrd or The Allman Brothers, but they should be. If ever there were a music that belonged to the ‘70s (besides disco), it had to be Southern Rock. For this dyed-in-the-wool Yankee, Southern Rock was a revelation. The best bands incorporated a wild stylistic mix into their music, including country, blues, R & B, straight-ahead rock, and even jazz-like extended soloing. […]

By: David E. Gehlke A play on the band’s notorious “Born to Lose” credo, Live to Win is a lovingly-assembled book by Motorhead fanclub president Alan Burridge, who has been with Lemmy and crew since 1979. Pictures (vintage, revealing, exclusive, you name it) are in full supply here, making it a visual delight for those who are charmed by Lemmy and the various goons he’s trotted out since his fortuitous Hawkwind ouster in the mid-70’s. And judging by the cast […]