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“High Road”, the new album from Night Ranger arrived in my in-box the same day as the new Tesla album. Both albums get released in the UK by Frontiers today – Friday 6th June – ahead of their North American release on 10th June. As Tesla just happens to be my favourite band, their album kinda hogged the limelight a bit. However, as I’ve had a chance over the last few days to listen to “High Road” a bit more I have to admit I’ve been pleasantly surprised and would highly recommend checking out this album.
Romantic Rebel is a band from Chicago that I checked out following a tweet from Bobaflex who they are supporting on a tour in the USA. Bobaflex is a band that I really like, so I reckoned anyone supporting them would be worth investigating. It didn’t take much time to make the decision to buy Romantic Rebel’s self-titled debut album from Amazon (and their earlier single “Dirty Love Song” (which doesn’t appear on the album) from iTunes. Normally I’ll only write recommendations for albums that have been sent into Rock Radio NI rather than ones that I have bought. However, I do make exceptions when there are great albums by lesser known bands that I reckon are worth giving a shout out to. “Romantic Rebel” was released through Pavement Entertainment on 29th April
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