Monthly Archive: September 2015

Great 8/10 review of JAMES LEG “Below The Belt” from The BLUES

Cranked punk-blues from Texan keyboard anarchist. Anybody who hasn’t heard James Leg or his pre-solo caterwauling grooves with Black Diamond Heavies should a) feel downright ashamed and b) give this gloriously dishevelled long-player a blast. Below The Belt cranks out filthy, overdriven punk-rock blues with Leg’s Fender Rhodes sounding like a thousand instruments at once. […]

★★★★ ALL MUSIC gives 4 stars to DATURA4 “Demon Blues”

Australians are a people who traditionally prefer their rock & roll hearty and full-bodied, and Datura4, a new combo featuring several veterans of the Aussie rock scene, certainly seem to bear this out. On their debut album, 2015’s Demon Blues, Datura4 reel off a broad range of stylistic influences that almost entirely reach back to […]

PRIMA DONNA announces European dates for October

Photography by Bob Gruen European tour dates : 07/10/2015 Essen, Freakshow DE 08/10/2015 Berlin, Wild at heart DE 09/10/2015 Nieder-Ohmen, BiFi’s DE 10/10/2015 Stuttgart, Goldmarks DE 11/10/2015 Bern, Reitschule/ Rössli CH 12/10/2015 Besancon, Bar de L’U FR 14/10/2015 Bilbao, Satelite ES 15/10/2015 Madrid, Wurlitzer Ballroom ES 16/10/2015 Baeza (Jaén), Cafe Teatro Central ES 17/10/2015 Estepona, […]

Nice ABC (Australia) review of DATURA4 “Demon Blues”

Demon Blues is really a template for this band’s expansive live shows, which are proof enough that great rock dwells where experience and expertise meet inspiration. Australia’s west coast is still producing the most excellent bands and there’s nothing tame about this one, Datura4 show you can have your cream and eat it too. This […]

JAMES LEG’s “Below The Belt” reviewed in NO DEPRESSION

James Leg Gladly Hits Below The Belt by Sad Songs Keep the Devil Away September 2, 2015 The baritone beast that is James Leg (aka John Wesley Myers of the Black Diamond Heavies) is back with an eternally powerful offering of hypnotic, distortion gospel-blues and cement-hearted rock-n-soul. Working his trademark Fender Rhodes piano into a […]