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4 days ago | 
geoffwilburmusic.com | Geoff Wilbur |Geoffrey Wilbur
Album Review: Juliet’s Not Dead – This World is Ours (TMR Records/Earache Digital Distribution)My most recent full-on album recommendation for melodic hard rock fans is Juliet’s Not Dead‘s This World is Ours. Powerfully soaring vocals, aggressive guitar shredding, and heavy beats support a collection of well-written, hook-laden hard rock songs.
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6 days ago | 
geoffwilburmusic.com | Geoff Wilbur |Geoffrey Wilbur
Album Review of Mark Muleman Massey: Been a Long, Long TimeMark “Muleman” Massey has a soulful blues voice that’s broad enough to hit all the notes and is relatively smooth for the most part, but Massey adds a grainy, gravelly texture to the vox whenever the songs get emotionally charged. In other words, the ideal voice for a bluesman. Pair that with song selection that suits his strengths, and the result is a top-shelf blues record like Been a Long, Long Time.
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1 week ago | 
geoffwilburmusic.com | Geoff Wilbur |Geoffrey Wilbur
The BackstoryIt’s hard to believe it’s been 8 years since I last saw and reviewed Martin and Kelly, one of the area’s most talented country bands. Well, many areas, actually. In addition to New England, Martin and Kelly spend a lot of time touring (here’s their 2025 concert schedule), frequently trekking out to the Mountain Time Zone (Colorado, Wyoming), occasionally hitting the Plains (there were Iowa gigs this year), and otherwise touring up and down the east coast from New England to Florida.
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1 week ago | 
geoffwilburmusic.com | Geoff Wilbur |Geoffrey Wilbur
EP Review of Adam Sherman: Nowhere But HereAdam Sherman‘s EP Nowhere But Here sounds like a modern collection from a pop singer-songwriter icon. Indeed, that kind of is Sherman, a veteran of the Boston music scene who led A&M recording artists Private Lightning and The Souls.
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1 week ago | 
geoffwilburmusic.com | Geoff Wilbur |Geoffrey Wilbur
Single Review of Neil Diamond: “Sweet Caroline (Two Friends Remix)” (Capitol/UMe)Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” is an iconic, timeless megahit. So who would mess with that? Well, apparently producer/DJ duo Two Friends (Matt Halper and Eli Sones) would. Yeah, yeah, settle down. This is the first-ever “official” remix of “Sweet Caroline,” as noted by this news release on the official Neil Diamond website. This may be the remix we never knew we needed.
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1 week ago | 
geoffwilburmusic.com | Geoff Wilbur |Geoffrey Wilbur
Single Review of Second City Sin: “Morose”Birmingham, England’s Second City Sin is a heavy rock band with a tuneful touch. The band – Tyler Quantrill (vocals, rhythm guitar), Chaz Carr (lead guitar), Neva Bevan (bass), and Jacob Lancaster (drums) – formed in March 2024, with its first single, “Under the Landslide,” dropping in August. “Morose,” the band’s second single, was a February 14th release, a date that fits both the song’s lyric and the song-driven imagery on the single’s cover art.
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1 week ago | 
geoffwilburmusic.com | Geoff Wilbur |Geoffrey Wilbur
Single Reviews: Soft Skies Inc – “Sooner or Later” and “Your Small Army”Soft Skies Inc reminds me of some of the more creative, rock-adjacent pop music I’ve enjoyed over the years. Brothers Ryan Rex (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards) and Martin Rex (drums, percussion, backing vocals, keyboards) each man multiple instruments on these songs.
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1 week ago | 
geoffwilburmusic.com | Geoff Wilbur |Geoffrey Wilbur
The BackstorySanctuary Arts Center, in a cool, repurposed church in Maynard, Massachusetts, was launched in 2019… just in time for the pandemic. I think I recall hearing about it at the time, but it really came into my consciousness earlier this year when I learned Blog favorite had a regular monthly gig there the first Thursday of each month. I haven’t made it out to one of Danielle’s shows yet, but I did finally have an opportunity to get to a Sanctuary gig yesterday.
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1 week ago | 
geoffwilburmusic.com | Geoff Wilbur |Geoffrey Wilbur
Single Review of The Outfit: “Hard On Me” (Pavement Entertainment)Not long ago, you read my review of Go, last year’s album from The Outfit. The Chicago rockers are back with a new single, “Hard On Me.” This is The Outfit’s first release with new lead singer Bill Wilson, and the band doesn’t miss a beat. Wilson’s voice is an ideal fit for a top-shelf ’80s-reminiscent hard rock outfit like The Outfit.
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2 weeks ago | 
geoffwilburmusic.com | Geoff Wilbur |Geoffrey Wilbur
Single Reviews of The Northern Line: “Lightning Strikes” and “Throw a Fist”Boston’s The Northern Line is Bilvox (vocals), Mike Ackley (keyboards), Pete Zeigler (lead guitar), Joshh Magee (bass), and McG (drums, backing vocals – formerly of The Luxury, an old favorite band I reviewed many years ago).
