Feature: Marty's Musical Meltdown

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• Music Review: Cooper, Inc, Uriah Heep, 7 DayBinge, 16 Second Stare, Aetherius Oscurita

  From the nicest of mainstream hard rock to the blackest of black metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Nov 08, 2009

• Music Review: Duran Duran, Status Quo, Steve Morse Band, Joe Bonamassa, and House of Lords

  From pomp to blues to glossy pop rock... a typical week then.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 31, 2009

• Music Reviews: ZZ Top, Roxy Music, Winger, Lynch Mob, and Ike Reilly

  Roxy Music, ZZ Top and Winger tousle with a touch of rough & ready rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 23, 2009

• Music Reviews: Toto, The Company Band, Pelican, Mr Big, Black Cobra

  Instrumental metal to Mr Big and back to some quality heavy metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 15, 2009

• Music Reviews: Steve Comte & the Crazy Truth, While Heaven Wept, Forest Stream, Megadeth & Lynryd Skynyrd

  From sleaze rock through doomy metal to Southern-fried rock, that is a good week in rock reviewing as far as I am concerned.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 08, 2009

• Music Review: Little Feat, Rick Wakeman, Onslaught, Marduk, and De Magia Veterum

  This is your lot for the week, from pomp to the darkest of avant garde.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 01, 2009

• Music Review: The Kentucky Headhunters, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Nick Oliveri, and Jason Aldean

  Country rock, big band metal swing, and some acoustic metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 24, 2009

• Music Review: Tough, Harvestman, Shrinebuilder, A Storm of Light, and Rod Stewart

  Rod the Mod to Wino via a darkened forest path... yes it must be more CD reviews.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 12, 2009

• Music Review: Therion, Painkiller Hotel, and Gloriana

  Three chord wonders, through poptastic country rock, and ending up in operatic metal glory.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 08, 2009

• Music Reviews: Rory Gallagher, Gregg Rolie, Chuck Mosley, Janus & Dream Theater

  Some pop rock, some power prog, a bit of classy blues and some alright rap metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 30, 2009

• Music reviews: Circle of Fate, Machines of Grace, Theatre of Tragedy, Gary Moore & Beatallica

  Metal Beatles, to goth metal done right, to some tasty blues. It must be this week's Meltdown.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 22, 2009

• Music Reviews: Jason Aldean, Jethro Tull, Grief of War, U.D.O., and RAM

  Your lot for this week ranges from folk-rock to some traditional heavy metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 14, 2009

• Music Review: Ensiferum, Glorior Belli, Fools Game, and Axxis

  Viking metal mayhem, metal cheese from Germany, and some blues black metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 09, 2009

• Music Reviews: Lillian Axe, Saint Deamon, Saidian, Unholy, and Lion's Share

  A great selection of metal for this week ranging from the upbeat to the dark and moody.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 29, 2009

• Music Reviews: Set Your Goals, Evile, Inglorious Incarnation, Bloodbound, Covered Call

  From pop-punk to hard rock with some thrash in the hard middle. Not a bad collection this week

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 17, 2009

• Music Review: The 69 Eyes, Moonstone Project, Submission, Pathosray, Vision Divine

  Trashy death metal through AOR funk to some rather good progressive metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 09, 2009

• Music Review: Black Crowes, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Primal Fear, Dredg, and The Deer Hunter

  From pop prog to Germanic heavy metal with a touch of blues, it must be this week's review selection from Marty.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 29, 2009

• Music Review: Iron Maiden, Delain, Bill Leverty, Loaded, and Chickenfoot

  Southern roots rock, gothic symphonic metal, and a hard rock supergroup is just the start of this week's column.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 22, 2009

• Music Review: Animals as Leaders, Exilia, Testament, Ted Nugent, and Deep Purple

  Deep Purple and Ted Nugent are just some of the pleasures in this lot.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 15, 2009

• Music Review: BB King, White Wizzard, The Jokers, Tantric, and Native Window

  Party rock, some violin tinged AOR and a touch of the NWOBHM as done by a bunch of Yanks.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 04, 2009