24th January 2020 felt to be the “Metal Heroes do solo album” day of the year. Shortly after I had a look at Nightwish’s Marko Hietala’s solo debut in English language, one of my next albums to have a listen…
Brett Eldredge / Lauren Jenkins (24th January 2020, Cologne)
The first Sound of Nashville show of the year – it felt really good to be back close to the stage after the festive break. The lineup for the show on 24th January 2020 in Cologne’s Carlswerk Victoria was definitely…
Pet Shop Boys – Hotspot
Active since 1981, over 50 million records sold and a couple of massive hits that people still can sing on the streets – the Pet Shop Boys are legend of pop music history – the Guiness Book of Records even…
Vanessa Mai – Für Immer
While there were not too many country music releases on my intiial review list, there were some quite interesting new albums on 24th January 2020 of other genres. One of those is the sixth studio album or one of the…
Marko Hietala – Pyre Of The Black Heart
The majority of the music community likely knows Marko Hietala as the bassist of Nightwish. In 2019, he released his debut solo album Musta sydämen rovio. As Finnish is a rather cryptic language in major parts of the world, Hietala released an…
Karen McDawn – To The Moon And Back
Country music from Austria? Seems to be as special as the release date of the solo debut album of Austrian Karen McDawn: instead of being part of the Friday mainstream, she released her To The Moon And Back already on a…
Steve Moakler – Blue Jeans
After I finished reviewing the albums by Dustin Lynch and Little Big Town, I ran into several interesting new country music releases as of 17th January 2020. The one which fascinated me most is Blue Jeans by Steve Moakler, which I…
Cody Hibbard – Memory and A Dirt Road
I got quite a lot into the international – and especially the US – country music scene the last years, but there are still so many good artists I don’t know yet. While I was working on the floorball match…