folk rock

Ralph Towner has died at the age of 85! Towner was an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. Among other things, he mastered the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, trumpet…

Terry Sullivan, drummer of Renaissance's classic 1970s lineup, has died. The news was confirmed by Renaissance singer Annie Haslam, who is now the only surviving member of the band's classic seventies lineup. You can check out the full…

Jethro TullTrieste / Politeama Rossetti / ItalyTuesday, 13 Feb 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:10 PM Jethro Tull, the iconic British prog-rock pioneers who last June — for the first time in 23 years — honoured us with their third visit to…

Acts: Lost Society / Solstafir / AmorphisConcert date: Tuesday, 1 November 2023Location: Zagreb / Boogaloo / Croatia And that day finally came — after several years, Zagreb's Boogaloo found its way back onto our concert-going…

Robert Plant & Saving Grace (ft. Suzi Dian)Thursday, 24 August 2023Portorož / Avditorij / Slovenia Robert Plant is one of the essential voices in the story of rock music. His colossal vocal stamp on that story is impossible to…

Chris JaggerSunday, 23 Apr. 2023, from 8 p.m. onwardsIzola / Hangar bar / Slovenia Chris Jagger, the younger brother of the musician known to at least the entire solar galaxy, is his famous sibling's polar opposite. He's a living…

Performers: Leprous / Monuments / KalandraVenue: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 Leprous, those brilliant prog-metal oddballs, returned to Ljubljana on the last day of February this year to play…

Label: Legend RecordsRelease date: 1. 4. 2022Production: Darren WhartonAlbum length: 41.59 minGenre: AOR/hard rockRating: 8.0/10 Dare are by now Irish AOR legends, and hard rock (and, to a degree, folk rock) legends too. Their 1988…

Label: Insideout Music Release date: January 28, 2022 Production: Ian Anderson Album length: 46.45 min Genre: Progressive Rock / Folk Rock Rating: 8.0/10 After nineteen years of total studio silence, the prog rock champions Jethro Tull…

Label: PivecRelease date: June 18, 2021Production: Jernej KržičAlbum length: 51.42 minGenre: Art RockRating: 9.5/10Buy the album! If we're counting right, "Kužne pesmi" is the ninth album from Katalena, by now rather legendary…

Five years have flown by in a flash. Five years since we lost one of the greatest musical visionaries in the history of rock 'n' roll – the brilliant mind of David Bowie. Fifty years ago this November, the man put out his third studio…

Label: Kscope RecordsRelease date: November 13, 2020Production: Mariusz DudaAlbum length: 39.50 min. (regular album) / 36.37 min. (bonus album)Genre: Progressive Rock / Folk RockRating: 9.0/10 The fact that Mariusz Duda, the…

“Shuffle and Go” is yet another vivid proof that Fairport Convention age like fine wine: the older they get, the better they sound, especially when it comes to songwriting maturity and consistency.

Even though "Full House" was made during a transitional period, with Fairport Convention constantly struggling to pin down a stable line-up, it was yet another British folk rock classic, almost on a par with "Liege & Lief" in quality.

“Liege & Lief” is the cornerstone of the British folk rock scene and an album that every lover of good music should own, even if folk rock isn't one of their favorite genres. With it, Fairport Convention made their most important and…

Location: Cerkno / Star plac / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 11 July 2020 After a blunt dose of that brave new world reality — the one we sink deeper into day by day, with no salvation in sight until the final catharsis (that is, the…

With “Please to See the King”, Steeleye Span made their first folk-rock classic and one of the most eventful albums of their long career, proving they didn't need a drummer to do it.

“Dream Hunting” is a very solid, mostly ambient, 'still-life' and personal folk/pop rock album that mainly reflects Ziblat's versatility as a songwriter and his genre-free approach.

"A Beard of Stars," the most interesting record of Bolan's psychedelic folk era, was already starting to show signs, through its gradual 'electrification,' that a big stylistic shift was on the way.

“Svetilnik” is an album you need to spend real time with, because it's packed with vivid arranging and sonic fullness. Although it's blessed with big musical appeal, Čedahuči pulled quite a few sonic-experiment moves on it, which for the…

"Welcome to the vivid, one-of-a-kind, timeless and utterly unique mantra of seven wonderful bards, who will move you, wake you and stir you up when you meet them together on the night of “Prvi krajec”."

Even though "Unhalfbricking" was born in a grueling, traumatic stretch for the English folk rock titans, it turned out to be one of their finest achievements and gave them fresh energy to carry on with their career.

On their solid debut, Steeleye Span were still learning the ropes of British folk rock and slowly shaping their own recognizable sound.

"The album is wildly bold and varied in its ideas. The opening, more subtly pitched Jesenska already signals that it comes across a touch more serious, let's call it more focused and concise in how it hones its arrangements, compared to the…

With "What We Did On Our Holidays," Fairport Convention, thanks above all to Sandy Denny, slowly stepped into their classic and still most beloved creative era, right in the middle of a gradual sonic transition.

A jam-packed Dom sportova hall in Zagreb got a helping of eternal Jethro Tull classics, with a well-executed show and a nicely stitched-together setlist, but it never quite hit the peaks.

"Katalena needed an artistic about-face after their previous album, and with that move they've once again delivered a one-of-a-kind record that is, head to toe, 100% Katalena"

Location: Ljubljana / SiTi Teater / SloveniaDate: Thursday, May 12, 2016 Katalena, probably the go-to band in Slovenia when the talk turns to reworking Slovenian folk music (on a thousand and one tunes), is marking 15 years of…

Label: Mercury RecordsRelease date: November 4, 1970 (US) / April 10, 1971 (UK)Producer: Tony ViscontiAlbum length: 40:29 minGenre: Hard Rock / Folk Rock / Glam RockRating: 8.5/10This review is dedicated to the memory of David Bowie…

Label: PhilipsRelease date: 11/14/1969Production: Tony Visconti & Gus Dudgeon (Space Oddity)Album length: 45.13 minGenre: Psychadelic Rock / Folk RockRating: 8.0/10 Bowie's self-titled second solo album, reissued in 1972 for the…

Label: PivecRelease year: 2015Production: Blaž Celarec & Marko TurelAlbum length: 35.24 minGenre: Folk / Rock Time flies! Four years have gone by since the album Noč čarovnic came out.. It feels like it was yesterday. And now…

"A four-piece outfit with, as of today (and I hope I'm counting right), two studio albums under their belt played a show on March 22, 2014, at Rimska ulica 2 in Ljubljana, in the Salon za Eno glasbo. At the end of this November, that show…

Location: Postojna / Kulturni dom / SloveniaDate: Sunday, 01.09.2013 Katalena closing out Postojna's "Zmaj ma mlade" festival delivered the high point of this year's lineup. This is a top-notch band with a long track record and a…

Location: Ljubljana / SiTi Teater / SloveniaDate: 25.01.2013 When the talk turns to musical experimentation that you hurl into the century-old template of recognizable tunes from the Slovenian folk music landscape, you'll struggle…

"Fairport Convention's debut was a colorful grab bag of more or less successful folk and folk rock standards with precious few originals, but every take on the American source material was at least solid, and the first signs that a key band…

" "Benefit" is not only better produced, it's a far more mature album than its predecessor. It's where the band finally shaped its signature identity. "

Label: Island RecordsRelease date: 7/25/1969Production: Terry Ellis & Ian AndersonAlbum length: 37.48 minGenre: Folk Rock / Blues Rock / Heavy Rock / JazzRating: 8.0/10 After the bluesy start of "This Was" (1968), Jethro Tull…

"Even though Jethro Tull only showed their true musical direction and full potential on later albums, "This Was" is a thoroughly likable "progressive blues" record that shines above all in its remarkable originality."