If you're looking for proof that rock has kept rolling throughout 2023, you've come to the right place. Six months into the year and there's no shortage of doozies.
There's been new collections from big hitters like Foo Fighters and Metallica. New favourites from old favourites like Jethro Tull, Rival Sons, The Damned and Iggy Pop. Youthful exuberance from Arielle, Those Damn Crows and Babymetal. Wisdom from Lucinda Williams and Taj Mahal. Unexpected Album Of The Year contenders from DeWolff, Avenged Sevenfold and Ian Hunter. Crown Lands made the best Rush album not made by Rush, Extreme roared back into action, and Def Leppard got themselves an orchestra. It's been great.
So here they are: the young bucks and the old stagers, the guitar wranglers and the prog noodlers, the blues greats and the mysterious religious types. All life is here, and it sounds good.
