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BEST OF 2023 – Sparky (Writer) You can find the Collective List as well as all our Best of 2023 content including contributors’ individual lists, podcasts and radio DJ shows here: CGCM’s Best of 2023 (Year in Review) Another year has gone by in the blink of an eye and now is the time the decide whether it’s been…
GRAHAM “SPARKY” SPARK 🇬🇧 (website writer): sparky@cgcmrockradio.com Graham “Sparky” Spark, one of CGCM Radio/Podcast‘s resident wordsmiths (fancy talk for ‘writer’), comes to us from the UK (United Kingdom, not the University of Kentucky). Having grown up with rock and metal, Graham would use his paper route money to buy Twisted Sister and Queen albums. You…
You can find the Collective List as well as all our Best of 2022 content including contributors’ individual lists, podcasts and radio DJ shows here: CGCM’s Best of 2022 (Year in Review) BEST OF 2022 – Sparky (Writer) 🇬🇧 For the past few years, this end-of-year review has begun with me bemoaning what a shit year we’ve all had….
You can find the Collective List as well as all our Best of 2021 content including contributors’ individual lists, podcasts and radio DJ shows here: CGCM’s Best of 2021 (Year in Review) BEST OF 2021 SPARKY 🇬🇧 (Radio DJ/Writer/Photographer/Contributor) We entered 2021 with great optimism expecting the terrible 2020 to be well and truly behind us. How wrong we were….
This year CGCM decided to include EP (previously they were excluded from Top Ten Albums). Live albums and re-records were still disqualified, new music only for Best of Year. We also instigated a (highly complex🤣 – 1 point for 10th place through to 10 points for 1st place) rating system throughout all individual lists to…
Welcome to the CGCM Podcast/Website. We are a group of music passionate folks from around the world. Although we began in Canada with only the podcast co-hosts, we now realize an entire team of staff from Canada, UK, USA and Sweden! Follow us at our website and/or social media for all our podcasts, album/concert reviews,…
Canadian four-piece Freeways have been on the scene for 10 years now, and their sophomore full-length album is a pure hard rock joy. Hailing from Brampton, Ontario, the band has been a solid unit since 2014 with only one member change in that time. Freeways are: Dominic Innocente (guitars), Jacob Montgomery (guitars and vocals), Amarjot…
Vnter? When this Vnter EP first appeared across my desk at CGCM Towers I didn’t fancy it, mainly because I didn’t – and still don’t – know how the name is pronounced. I know it’s “de rigeur” in music these days to miss out the odd vowel, but it makes no sense to me. I’m…
Fox and Chicken Sunflower Fox and The Chicken Leg has got to be one of the craziest names I’ve come across, but fortunately that is not the main talking point of this tremendous new record. Borne out of the shitstorm that was Covid-19 when musicians could not work, lead singer Kaity Heart asked her best…
Premier The UK’s premier AOR outfit Lionheart have made a triumphant return to the scene with their fabulous new offering, The Grace of a Dragonfly. It’s been a long and winding road for the band since their formation in the early 80s, which included a 30-year hiatus from 1986. Since they reformed in 2016 they…