Here are some reviews about "Drone" and "Shed Your Skin"! Interviews and more reviews coming soon, so keep checking the site for updates.

Michael Allison - THEGLOBALMUSE.COM

Johnny Young - The Rundown
Sound Quality: 5 stars
Production: 4 stars
Musicianship: 4 stars
Originality: 3 stars
Over All: 5 stars

Johnny Young's music reminds me of Monster Magnet and maybe even Alice in Chains or Soundgarden to some extent. The music is a heavy modern rock style with a ton of attitude and raw energy. I was drawn in by this music because of the intensity and passion that I felt. Though I can't say that I liked every song, I did like most of them. Some I simply loved. Songs like "Mud" gave me that Soundgarden familiarity, and "If I" was more of a Monster Magnet style. The lyrics on this album definitely stood out in my mind. The songwriting is very intelligent and well thought out. The vocal delivery is by far the most alluring feature on the album. Musicianship is excellent as well. The over all appeal of this album kept me listening all night long. Johnny Young delivers the goods in an inspirational, yet raw and vibrant fashion. Basically, it's just good damn music that was meant to be enjoyed. Who could ask for anything more?

FLAGPOLE 6/6/2001 ABC Pick

Brooklyn guitarist Johnny Young has built up a rather impressive musical resume in an unusually short time. Blind since 17, the multi-talented musician cut his teeth with former Rolling Stone guitarist Mick Taylor, playing keyboards and singing for the guitar legend's world tour. Since then, he's worked with a number of indie bands, both as a producer and performer, and won an Emmy for the music for "Guiding Light" in 1996. Soon after, Young took up the guitar and formed a self-named trio...releasing the debut Shed Your Skin in 1999. Johnny Young the man has proven to be a more-than-able string bender, garnering comparisons to '60s rock heroes Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix for both his instrumental prowess and his ability to craft well-written songs around his hot licks. Johnny Young the band creates a powerful, driving sound that borrows from both the heavy rock histrionics of the '80s and the melodic accessibility of post-grunge '90s rock.

Like former Alice In Chains frontman Jerry Cantrell, Young's songs aren't simply vehicles for his soloing, and the band's latest, Drone, is an excellent slab of darkly melodic hard rock that bashes together plenty of crunching riffs, a pulsing rhythm section and to-the-point lyrics with a dash of studio psychedelia to mix things up.

Muzikman@musicdish 3/2001

...This power trio stays at maximum warp drive, without any breaks. ...And it's unadulterated, unscathed rock and roll. ... It won't hurt, you will just want some more. With crunching authoritative chords on lead guitar, and with a wild and nasty rhythm section, Johnny Young will blast their way into your eardrums, and leave them ringing for hours. How else can I put this? This group kicks ass and takes no prisoners, it's as simple as that. Ah, rock and roll is poetic justice, isn't it?

ANTZONE - January 2001

THIS is the kind of rock it's always a pleasure to get in the mail. Melodic, hard, not heavy, not death, not wholly negative, just a Great Band playing the dark riffs of power guitar stuff ... I understand the magic of getting a huge sound out of only 4 people. Johnny Young does it one better. He's on vocals, guitar. Christo Strone does bass. Lex Dunbar bangs those damn drums. ...
The guitar work is top notch, and then up a notch more. If he were in the 60s, by now he'd be hailed as one of the greatest singer-guitarists, along with Clapton and Hendrix. After all, songs like 'Mud' bring out his black side more than usual, and with the typically blinding electric guitar intro, you the listener are kicked into a dynamite blast of guitar licks that doesn't stop. 12 songs....it's the EXCITEMENT that Johnny Young causes on that spot in between your ears that really shoots you up big time. With studio musician skill, he slides every ROCK song into the bar with that flaming guitar and shaggadelic vocal style like Eastwood controlling a western set.

Joe Wawyezniak -- Jersey Beat #63 - January 1999 on "Shed Your Skin"

JOHNNY YOUNG - Shed Your Skin (Menagerie Records, 440 Fifth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215)This potently primordial 12 track debut CD offers a blisteringly effective post-modem hard rock combination of 80's heavy metal's mighty caveman stomp and 90's alternative rock's carefully wrought melodic accessibility. Lead singer Johnny Young's gritty, raspy, soaring voice savagely tears its way through each hard-hitting song. The crunchy, power chord-ridden guitars, putty, bottom-heavy drums which never let up on the chunky, surging beats, and a thickly plodding bass create a powerful, pulverizing sonic thrust which thankfully eschews all-out abrasiveness in favor of a much more tautly harmonic and controlled approach to banging out a tune that gains considerable strength from its tightly focused intensity. The band's harshly down-to-earth, confrontational, unsentimental sensibility caps things off perfectly. A righteously dead-on serving of no-bullshit, straight-with-no-chaser rock'n'roll fury.

Dick Metcalf, aka Rotcod Zzaj -- Improvijazzation Nation November 1998

Little trio on this CD in from Brooklyn. This is a KEWL rawkin' thang. Young has been blind since age 17, but he hasn't let that get in his way at all! This music is FULL of punch & energy, & a sensitivity not often heard these days! Young's lead guitar/vox are thoroughly complimented by th' power driven bass by Christopher Strone & th' butt-kickin' drums of Emilio Vicini. If th' word "alternative" (when used to describe rock music that's supposed to be "different") has sorta' turned you off - think AGAIN! This is th' REAL thing! Second cut in, "One Call", is a fave, but none o' th' rest are slackerz', either! Strong lyrical bent, with real style, not jus' another punker with a case o' wannabe! Wanna' get yer' blood SURGING? GET THIS - it's MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED & gets th' PICK of this issue for "best rawker"! If yer' don't get another R&R album this year - you jus' GOTTA' have this one! Independence with GUTZ'!

Terry Allen

It's pretty obvious from the opening track "Change" on this album that here we have quite an undiscovered talent ready to move into the spotlight. A great slow start to the song slides brilliantly into a great bit of heavy riffage to get your attention, alternating between the soft & loud sounds.

The further you venture into the album, the more this style makes itself obvious, perhaps working an old theme, but with new feeling. "Mariner" is a perfect example, some cool heavy stuff right from the outset, as does my favourite track "Taste", which may be the heaviest thing here, verging on metal, but tending more towards hard rock.

Also interesting are "World Is Dead", "Had" & the closing track "Heaven's Gate", sort of a commentary on the religious cult of the same name, utilising a wicked grunging riff & a great chorus as well. A well rounded album that should appeal to a wide variety of fans of out & out rock.

Kere -- Worldwide Record Reviews - November 1998

I like the texture in the vocals! It's a good production. Johnny where did you ever find the model for the cd cover? Anyway, It's modern rock with a weaved style of lyrics and music. Straight forward to deep thought. Soft to hard. An interesting blend of classic to modern rock and roll. Go New York!