Space September 2019

If it feels as if Honk treads familiar ground, it's because it does. Arriving seven years after the career-spanning Grrr! – a compilation available in a variety of iterations, all spanning from the earliest years to the 2010s – Honk focuses squarely on the music the Rolling Stones made after leaving London/Decca, a catalog that now resides with Abkco. In other words, its ground zero is "Brown Sugar," a staple that arrives just after "Start Me Up" kicks off the double-disc set. Such sequencing indicates how Honk bounces through the years, letting the '70s sit next to the '80s, finding space for latter-day songs that only showed up on previous greatest-hits albums (there have been five since 1984), and shining the spotlight on such excellent latter-day cuts as "Rough Justice."

As most of you know, the Italian Genesis magazine DUSK is run by journalist Mario Giammetti. What you probably didn't know - Mario also sings. Back in the Eighties, he formed a band called Algebra with some friends but it took them more than 10 years to record a proper album. Their debut album was Storia Di Un Iceberg and was released in 1994. Another album followed 15 years later, called JL. Steve and John Hackett guested on that record.

Chastity Belt’s energy is like a circuit, circling around the silly and the sincere. Tongue-in-cheek shit-shooting and existential rumination feed into each other infinitely.

Soviet Grail presents an extended and official reissue of the album 'I See Earth' by the cult and respected among the diggers, the Turkmen jazz-rock and fusion band Gunesh, under the direction of Oleg Kimovich Korolev.