Feature: Marty's Musical Meltdown

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• Music Reviews: The Murder of My Sweet, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Winter in Eden, Teodor Tuff, Spider Rockets, Great White, Wig Wam

  The usual mix of heavy and hard rock, with lashings of catchiness.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 24, 2012

• Music Reviews: Metallica, Voodoo Highway, Empires of Eden, Burzum, Dominanz, and Loincloth

  An iffy EP, some power metal, and some weird stuff.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 15, 2012

• Music Reviews: Sweet, At Vance, Ancient VVisdom, Brand New Sin, Dark New Day, Job for a Cowboy and Stormwarrior

  Time for a new column, and this one will be a bit eclectic.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 30, 2012

• Music DVD and CD Reviews: Deep Purple, Jeff Healey, Unisonic, Freak Kitchen, Tyketto, Trixter, and Crazy Lixx

  Hard rock in many forms covered this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 24, 2012

• Music Reviews: Heidevolk, Lonewolf, Mekong Delta, Moonspell, Mystic Prophecy, & Prong

  It is time for releases from the heavier end of the rock spectrum.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 16, 2012

• Music Reviews: A Liquid Landscape, AtomA, A Whisper in the Noise, Frames, OSI, and Skyharbor

  A progtastic collection of rock/metal this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 09, 2012

• Music Review: Primal Rock Rebellion, Furyon, Jack Blades, Jeff Scott Soto, Pretty Maids, and Dark Suns

  Hard rock, meh rock, and some rather odd rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 30, 2012

• Music Reviews: Astral Doors, Steve Hogarth + Richard Barbieri, A Sound of Thunder, Huntress, Craaft and Joe Matera

  A mixed bag of rock and prog goodness.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 22, 2012

• Music DVD Review: En Vivo by Iron Maiden

  Yet another new Iron Maiden live DVD ... but annoyingly worth every penny.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 21, 2012

• Music Reviews: Axel Rudi Pell, Freedom Call, Running Wild, Barren Earth, Dark Empire, Kissin' Dynamite

  Power metal in all its forms this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 14, 2012

• Music Reviews: Lacuna Coil, Silent Opera, Xandria, Diabulus in Musica, Opera X, and Touchstone

  This column focuses on female-fronted rock releases, with a touch of prog and goth.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 06, 2012

• Music Reviews: Fair Warning, Mad Max, Sonic Station, Sunstorm, UFO, Orange Goblin, & Dark Forest

  This review contains a nice range of rock and heavy rock for the week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 28, 2012

• Music Reviews: Van Halen, Crashdiet, Nitrogods, Mr. Big, Xorigin, Michael Thompson Band, Toby Hitchcock, Molio/Martin, & Kill Devil Hill

  Here's a new look column with some great new music.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 17, 2012

• Music Reviews: The Scorpions, Lillian Axe, & Madison Rising

  A mixed bag from The Scorpions, Lillian Axe and up & comers Madison Rising.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 09, 2012

• Music DVD Reviews: Queen, Styx and The Doors

  A review of some classic rock music DVDs, starring Queen's Days of Our Lives, Styx's Grand Illusion/Pieces of Eight Live, and a Doors documentary..

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 04, 2012

• Music Reviews: Nightwish, Evanescence, Lyriel, Beyond the Bridge, Nucleus Torn, Opera Diabolicus

  It is time for another female-sung metal round-up. And the good ones aren't who you expect.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 21, 2012

• Music Reviews: Dragonland, Everygrey, Iron Metal, Primal Fear, Royal Hunt, & Virgin Steele

  Power metal to get you through the snowy wastes of winter.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 10, 2012

• Music Reviews: The Magnificent, Grand Illusion, Work of Art, Sons of Icarus, Riotgod, Wolfsbane

  2012 is upon us, along with all sorts of rock for your new year's pleasure.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 02, 2012

• Music Reviews: Rival Sons, Mark Spiro, Grand Design, Issa, Yes, and Beggars and Thieves

  This week features a live gig and some diverse hard rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Dec 23, 2011

• Music DVD and CD Reviews: Cynic, Ronnie James Dio, Paradise Inc., Slash, & Deep Purple

  From Cynic, to potential cynical cash-ins to a couple of cracking live recordings.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Dec 06, 2011