Status Quo reissues – Heavy Traffic and Riffs (UMC)

Credit where credit is due – Universal Music Group and its subsidiaries have been doing sterling work over the last few years, repackaging and reissuing Status Quo’s later catalogue to the world. Deluxe versions of all their albums from the mid-eighties have been making their way  steadily into the shops, and we’re now into the..

Status Quo – Quo’ing In: The Best Of the Noughties (earMusic)

I always approach any new Status Quo compilation with trepidation. It's a tough audience to deal with anyway, because for every die-hard, denim-clad, dedicated Quo fan, there is some nay-sayer holding their stripped-down basic boogie in derision. The band went through a period at the end of the last century, where their seriously hard-rocking credentials..

NEW STATUS QUO ALBUM OUT THIS FRIDAY. LISTEN TO SAMPLES.

British rock veterans Status Quo are releasing their 33rd studio album “Backbone” this Friday, September 6th, through earMUSIC/ EDEL. You can listen to samples of all 11 tracks included in the album via the link below. The 11-track record will be the band’s first without Rick Parfitt, who died on December 24, 2016, with all..