Cherry Red Records Archives

NWOBHM Thunder: Album Review

By Mike Ainscoe on 3rd August 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

A Cherry Red three-disc collection from The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal 1978-1986. A reminder of a classic period for rock music and of how difficult it was to say NWOBHM…

The Residents: Meat, Metal & Bone: Album Review

By Mike Ainscoe on 8th July 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

San Francisco’s The Residents offer up an album based on the works of long-lost bluesman Alvin ‘Dyin’ Dog’ Snow.

Surrender To The Rhythm – The London Pub Rock Scene of the 1970s: Album Review

By John Barlass on 7th July 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Cherry Red Records excel themselves with this new 3CD compilation of the sounds which, collectively, comprised the London Pub Rock scene of the mid-1970s.

Buzzcocks – Sell You Everything 1991-2014: Album Review

By Mike Ainscoe on 4th June 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

A shedload of albums, singles, rarities and unreleased music from the Buzzcocks archive. As usual, lovingly collated by the fine people at Cherry Red.

Strawbs – Heartbreak Hill / Burning For You: Album Review

By John Barlass on 26th May 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Strawbs fans can rejoice with the pairing of Heartbreak Hill and Burning For You in Remastered and Expanded forms.

Neil Innes – How Sweet To Be An Idiot: Album Review

By John Barlass on 15th April 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

A fitting tribute to the great and sadly missed Neil Innes. His 1973 debut album in expanded format.

Spirit – Tent Of Miracles: Album Review

By Howard King on 13th April 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Tent Of Miracles from 1990 finds the thirteenth album by Spirit reissued in an expanded format with a live show from Amsterdam as the added bonus.

Luke Haines & Peter Buck – Beat Poetry For Survivalists: Album Review

By Mike Ainscoe on 29th February 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Is anybody there? Former REM man Peter Buck and The Auteurs’ Luke Haines make a record that’s delightfully off kilter.

Nektar – The Other Side: Album Review

By Mike Ainscoe on 25th January 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Prog rock veterans Nektar return for a new decade with The Other Side that celebrates both their past and the present.

Glenn Hughes – Justified Man, The Studio Albums 1995-2003: Album Review

By Mike Ainscoe on 7th January 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

A monster set from a particularly prolific period for Glenn Hughes. To be fair, the voice of rock has never shied away from being anything less than active.

Be Bop Deluxe – Modern Music: Album Review

By Mike Ainscoe on 18th December 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Release Date: 29th November 2019 Label: Cherry Red Formats: 2CD, DL, special edition 4CD/DVD mega package Cherry Red are doing the Be Bop Deluxe catalogue a real service. After the excellent reissues of Sunburst Finish and Futurama, we get another impossible to resist offering of Modern Music. Modern […]