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Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and a day later in the United States through Columbia Records, as their first album for the label. Based on material composed by Pink Floyd while performing in Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded in numerous sessions throughout 1975 at EMI Studios in London.As the […]

BluesWave Radio is proud to announce a special interview with David Bennett Cohen, the acclaimed musician best known as an original member of Country Joe and the Fish and for his later work with The Blues Project. The interview will air on Monday, April 6, 2026, at 11:00 pm EEST and again on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at 1:00 pm EEST on “The Flower Power Hour with Ken and MJ.”For […]

Robben Ford’s Two Shades of Blue is a late-career statement that feels both refined and exploratory—a record where a veteran artist leans into his strengths while still pushing stylistic boundaries.The album has been widely described as sophisticated, tasteful, and stylistically fluid, blending blues with jazz, funk, and soul in Ford’s signature way.It’s not a radical reinvention—but it doesn’t need to be. Instead, it showcases a musician who has fully internalized […]

Tripping The Live Fantastic is Paul McCartney's first official solo live album and the first release of live material from the 1976 Wings Over America live set. Recorded during Paul McCartney's World Tour (1989–1990), it was released in early November 1990 as a triple LP, double cassette and double CD. Tripping the Live Fantastic peaked at number 17 in the UK and number 26 in the US. An abridged version […]

Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues is widely seen as a bold, self-defined artistic statement—arguably Birchwood’s most personal and stylistically expansive album to date. It blends blues, funk, soul, and psychedelic rock into a modern hybrid that pushes beyond traditional blues boundaries.This is his first fully self-produced album, giving him complete control over the sound and direction.Birchwood’s signature “electric swamp funkin’ blues” style comes through strongly—mixing gritty blues roots with groove-heavy funk […]

In 1970, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released one of the most highly anticipated second albums in music history, following in the footsteps of Beatles and Band, which lived up to its expectations and reached number 1 on the charts. The achievement is even more astonishing, given the fact that the band spent only 800 hours together to record Deja Vu, and it would be fair to say that they […]

Jean-Michel Jarre gave a series of five concerts in Beijing and Shanghai in 1981, marking the first time a modern Western musical artist had performed in communist China. Mao let him do the concerts because, according to Jarre's biography, he liked the color of his eyes more than anything else. Recognizing the historical significance of the whole undertaking and the milestone it represented in Jarre's career, a double live album […]

With Number 3 Monkey, Neal Black & The Healers deliver a blues-rock record that feels road-tested, lived-in, and fully connected to the roots that shaped Neal Black’s sound. The album brings together twelve tracks, ten of them Neal Black originals, alongside two classic blues covers — Skip James’ “Devil Got My Woman” and Robert Wilkins’ “No Way To Get Along.” Recorded during a break in the band’s latest European tour, […]

Belgian rhythm & blues outfit The Dibs return with Just For You, a vibrant new album released in March 2026 on Naked Records. Built on deep grooves, soulful vocals, Hammond heat, blues guitar grit and a fully organic band sound, the record captures everything that makes The Dibs stand out: rhythm & blues at heart, but open to soul, funk, jazz, gospel, country touches and blues-rock energy. The album runs […]

Banquet is the fourth album by German progressive rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1974, where Lucifer's Friend finally combined the many different elements of their sound (prog, soul, jazz, hard rock) into a coherent and completely distinct style.This time, the main focus of the album is on epic progressive songs with complex orchestrations that go through a variety of surprising and ambitious changes in their orchestrations.The opening track, "Spanish […]

One Step Beyond is the 1979 debut album by British ska-pop group Madness. It was ranked 90th among the 100 greatest albums of all time in a 2005 poll conducted by British television channel Channel 4.The album, which was recorded and remixed in about three weeks, reached number two and remained in the UK album charts for over a year.It was the first album by producers Clive Langer and Alan […]

Orléans Passion – Discover the Beautiful Side of Life Through a Personal Lens Orléans Passion is a heartfelt personal blog created by Jeff, a lifelong resident of Orléans, France. Born and raised in this historic city, Jeff uses the blog as a joyful space to share his passions — from photos and videos to music and reflections inspired by life around him. Embracing “the beautiful side of things,” Jeff takes […]

The Golden Wire is the third solo album by Police guitarist Andy Summers, recorded in November and December 1988 and released in 1989.Andy Summers is a wonderful and demanding stylist, composer and guitar virtuoso. Summers remained very productive after the Police disbanded in the mid-1980s, making a series of distinctive solo albums, and successful films such as Down And Out In Beverly Hills. His solo musical development has been sporadic […]

All Directions is the 15th album by the Temptations, released in 1972 by Motown Records, produced by Norman Whitfield.The LP contains the group's No. 1 hit, "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone", a twelve-minute track that Whitfield produced, as well as its first single release, Undisputed Truth. "Papa" won three Grammy Awards in 1973:Best R&B Vocal Performance by the group, Best R&B Instrumental Performance by the group, which was on the […]

Easter is the third studio album by the Patti Smith Group, released in March 1978 by Arista Records. It was produced by Jimmy Iovine and is considered the group's commercial breakthrough, due to the huge success of the single, "Because The Night", co-written by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith, which reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 5 in the United Kingdom.It is the first album released […]