Raw Whirr

On The Raw is an instrumental band from Barcelona who flirts with Jazz, Rock, Electronic music and brings together them creating an unique sound and identity. Its members come from recognized bands in the panorama of Progressive Rock as Harvest, Dracma or Apple Smell Colour. This recent instrumental bet aims to experiment in different environments and deepen the search for new creative horizons.

Twice Mercury Prize nominated, 5 time Ivor Novello nominated and critically acclaimed, Everything Everything release their new studio album Raw Data Feel.

As vocalist/guitarist/songwriter/metal pioneer Chuck Schuldiner was fighting a battle against cancer that he would inevitably and unfortunately lose, Nuclear Blast – probably at least in part in a noble attempt to drum up some revenue for a man burdened with astounding medical bills – released the first live disc from the first name in death metal, Death…

Way-kool 4th studio disc by this bad-ass, killer blues/rock axeripper from NYC featuring 9 tracks - 56 mins. of mega-awesome, powerful, over the top, southern-fried blues-based, retro-70s, heavy guitar jammin' power trio riffage that will rock your world. Guitar Pete Brasino is a supreme six string Riff-master who goes for the throat with his axe and takes no prisoners with his tough, brutal, mind-blowing heavy guitar assault. Lock up your daughters, because Guitar Pete is in town and there is a serious "Raw Deal" goin' down. An incredible heavy guitar riff:monster that is Highly recommended to fans of Leslie West / Mountain, Hendrix, Trower, SRV ZZ Top, Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bonamassa & Zakk Wylde.

British band Raw Material recorded two albums between 1970-1971, and the second album from the band, "Time Is…" is a strong collection of mostly Proto-prog styled pieces with light psych, jazz and folk elements. Due to the inclusion of saxophone/flute player Mike Fletcher, fans of the sax dominated early King Crimson albums and Van der Graaf Generator will find much to appeal here, with bands such as Beggars Opera, Pink Floyd and Novalis also other possible little reference points. It's not an album that instantly impresses, instead one that gradually reveals the consistently strong instrumental and compositional skills of the band on repeated plays.

Just as the title implies, Raw is Bobby Rush at his most elemental: a man, his acoustic guitar, and his foot stamping out a beat on an amplified board. A little harmonica now and then, and a Dobro played with a bottleneck slide on the rollicking "Glad to Get You Back," but that's it for ornamentation. Although most of 13 songs are Rush originals, he also essays three standards, Larry Williams' early rock classic "Boney Maroney," Muddy Waters' "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl," and – fearlessly – "Howlin' Wolf" itself, which he slows down into a funereal dirge. Rush calls his music "folk funk," but in reality, Rush is the modern equivalent of the first country bluesmen, before the moves to Memphis and Chicago added full-band arrangements and electricity. But Rush isn't a hidebound traditionalist attempting to resurrect a past form for its own sake; Raw crackles with the energy of a musician who knows that he's working in the style that best suits his own personal gifts. This is a hundred times more listenable than yet another blues band plodding through a set of tenth-generation rewrites of "Sweet Home Chicago," and could well be the blues recording of 2007.