Richly steeped in the music of New Orleans, the blues and more, Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse today release their brand-new, 8-track, second album ‘Good Times End Times’ The band fuses together the formidable talents […]
Newcomer Lola Colette started out the night with a slow song working into a more upbeat set. She has a very good voice, and the songs are solid. Although she lost me with her […]
Elton John said goodbye last night to Minnesota one last time with show number 201 0f the tour. He reminisced about all the different times that he had played in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul metro area. […]
The combination of Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram and producer Tom Hambridge worked wonderfully well last time around on the debut so why change want ain’t broke? They team up again on ‘662’ and whilst there’s […]
As soon as I heard Jo and Paul’s latest album ‘Everybody Rains on My Parade’ I knew I had to talk to them, but after publishing the first review of the record they beat […]
Quarto Valley Records releases “Lone Star Blues”, the third single off the upcoming new album “Brother Johnny,” an all-star tribute to Johnny Winter organized by his brother Edgar Winter. “Lone Star Blues” features Edgar Winter […]
The wait is over and BLUES PILLS finally return to stages all over Europe. The tour includes some of the biggest festivals from Donington’s legendary Download, to the massive Hellfest and the alternative rock twins Southside / Hurricane in Germany, as well as selected […]
Australian prog metal trailblazers Caligula’s Horse are back for their first headline tour of Australia in three years with the Rise Radiant tour! The band will be performing as yet unheard material from their fifth […]
Hell In The Club are one of the most exciting bands of the modern hard rock movement, These guys started out as a side project formed by members of power metal bands Elvenking and Secret […]
First up was a newer band Dead Poets Society. They are an energetic four piece that had some great original music. The crowd showed up early and seemed to be in to them. The bass […]
The Finnish cello-rock quartet Apocalyptica have once again partnered up with some of the biggest names in rock music to deliver their new single “I’ll Get Through It”. The song, written for the band by American award-winning songwriter Diane […]
Thunder have shared the second taste of their upcoming new album ‘Dopamine’, out 29th April on BMG – a slab of optimistic arena-rock, ‘Dancing In The Sunshine’. The band have also shared a lyric video […]
Jane Lee Hooker announce bi-coastal record release shows celebrating their new studio album, Rollin’, available on April 29, 2022. Jane Lee Hooker’s music is a blend of rock ‘n’ roll, blues, punk, R&B and soul, […]
The Dead Daisies kick off their summer in style with a massive pan European jaunt that’s set to radiate some heat. The first string of dates are a combination of arena and amphitheatre shows with […]
With the majority of compositions here written by the team of drummer John Hahn and guitarist/producer Will Kimbrough who supply 7 of the twelve tracks there’s a lovely thread of storytelling running through this record […]
Sydney based guitar-slinger and tight blues outfit Greg Nunan & The General Jacksons release ‘Be Like Water’, the second single from their forthcoming album ‘This Is A Recording’ on Friday March 25th 2022. “Most people […]
Joe Bonamassa called Chris Cain his favourite Blues player on the scene today “with the voice of B.B. King and the chops of Albert King” – it’s a huge statement but one that has you […]
Oz rock ‘n’ rollers SkinInc. have released “It Saved My Soul” on 18 March – their second single to be released this year, following the band’s two-decade hiatus. SkinInc. is a heavy rock band […]
A large part of what got me reacquainted with the Blues when this website began wasn’t the old timers out there still going strong or the young guns blazing away, it was these guys […]
As someone who thought that Love/Hate’s 1990 debut ‘Blackout in the Red Room’ was one of the best and most intriguing releases to come out of L.A. in the late eighties/early nineties and had a […]
Twenty years after their last release ‘Illusion’ a new record from Germany’s Jester’s Tears lands at Rockpit HQ a year and a half after its release and with an apology from Australia Post that […]
Last night was the opening night of the 2022 Knotfest Tour. I have never attended the Fargodome before, but I have to say I was really impressed. It is very well laid out and […]
This month marks one full year since the debut album from Chez Kane stormed the scene, An album that ended up in the top of many lists of the best releases from last year which […]
Back in the eighties the good people of the printed press got excited by a new band from Leeds named Rose of Avalanche “More conceptually magnificent than the Ramones, more noisily beauteous than an hour […]
Perth’s Electric State have been playing live shows over the past few years to great responses, appearing in the wonderfully pre-pandemic days of 2019 before we all found out a lot about what is […]
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