Now we have here an absolute delight for AOR fans: UK based act FIRST LIGHT and their debut album ”Gravity”.
FIRST LIGHT was formed by two musicians with a long story in the British rock scene, guitarist / songwriter Dave Hardman and bass player Carl Sharples, joined by ex FM keyboardist Didge Digital who drops washes of retro synths, drummer Andy Jakeman, and American vocalist Warren Passaro which vocal color brings to mind Kevin Chalfant and Steve Perry.
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Genre: Power Pop
Year: 2023
Country: Various
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Genre: Hard Rock | | Pop Rock | Soft Rock | Country Rock | AOR | Classic rock
Country of artist (group): USA [Seattle, Canada, Vancouver]
Year of publication: 1976 - 2016
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Release year: 2023
Genre: Progressive Rock / Symphonic Prog
Country: USA
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This team founded in 1983 drummer Carmine Eppays previously played with "Vanilla Fudge" and Rod Stewart. Together with guitarist Earl Slick (John Lennon, David Bowie), he recorded a number of tracks, and then invited vocalist Mark Freeh order to complete the work. More»

To be released next October, ”Secrets” is the debut album from ModX, the AOR project founded by Swedish musician Peter Eriksson, originally the frontman of the band Modesty in the late Eighties who gave us the really good Lite AOR album ‘Pieces Of Modesty’ back in 1989.
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With the upcoming ModX album – the project of Swedish singer / songwriter Peter Ericson, it’s cool to revisit the LP from his ’80s band MODESTY. While Ericson is a music industry busy man and has been involved into many bands, MODESTY and their 1989’s album ”Pieces Of Modesty” was his major label release, a big success in Europe especially Scandinavia. More»

Genre: Melodic Rock / AOR
Disc (release) country: Australia
Publication year: 2022 (1981)
Publisher (label): MelodicRock Classics
Country of the performer (group): US
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Genre: Melodic Rock / AOR
Disc (release) country of origin: US
Publication year: 2023
Publisher (label): Cargo Records
Country of artist (group): US
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Genre: Soft Rock / AOR
Disk (release) country: US
Year of publication: 2020 (1993)
Publisher (label): Girder Records
Country of the performer (group): US
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Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Disk (release) country: Japan
Publication year: 2023
Publisher (label): Avalon
Country of the performer (group): US
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As requested, here’s the pristine remastered reissue of one of the best female-fronted AOR / melodic hard rock albums from the early ’90s: FIGHTER’s “The Waiting“, including as bonus tracks their very hard to find, early 4-track demo EP with two exclusive songs.

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As part of the really good PETRA iconic albums remastered reissue series done by Girder Records, here’s the 1986 Dino and John Elefante produced “Back to the Street“. These limited run melodic hard rock classics are back in remastered deluxe editions on both vinyl and CD so fans can rediscover just what made these albums so pivotal in the history of US CCM melodic hard rock, as well as introduce them to those who may have missed these iconic releases the first time around.

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