With cover art that looks suspiciously like the doors of Saint Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral, in Midtown Manhattan New York, (great place to visit if we can ever get back to the US again) Graham […]
Saturday saw Perth’s BOY GIRL launch their new single ‘Twitchin’ in Your Sleep’ at Badlands with an impressive line-up of Perth bands in support. It was a solid reminder if you needed it not […]
Plastic Tears – Anthems For Misfits is an album you need to hear! It’s one of those albums that if you ‘get it’ then it will become completely addictive. Musically the rock band from […]
I’m guessing that most reader’s will know of The Treatment from Cambridge in the UK – a band who play good old fashioned hard rock full of energy and passion. Their new album ‘Waiting for […]
I’ve been listening to music made by Mark Knight since I was in my teens (and to be fair he wasn’t that much older). I saw Bang Tango tour the UK in 1992 when […]
My love for these guys started back in 1989 when I heard the original Swedish pressing of their classic debut “Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride” in 1989 (a far superior album to the rejigged US release […]
The Quill’s ninth studio album hits the streets on the 26th March, and with every release I wonder more and more whey this Swedish Hard Rock institution isn’t a name everyone out there knows! […]
Sweet has been around all my life. One of the first bands I heard as a kid growing up in the 70’s in the days of just three TV channels and not many more […]
April 9th sees the release of The Treatment’s 5th album since the glorious 2011 debut ‘This Might Hurt’ and first since 2019’s ‘Power Crazy’ and it’s a storming way to raise the finger to […]
Does it get any better than old school hard rock and heavy metal? The free, don’t give a shit, riff and roar that I loved as a kid and love still. The sound of […]
Founded in Örebro, Sweden, Backwood Spirit has been together since 2014. Formed by guitarist and songwriter Kent Engström they produced my album of the year back in 2017 when they released their debut on […]
I get a lot of classic era Rush in the first few spins of Greta Van Fleet’s new long-player ‘The Battle at Garden’s Gate’ – not just in Josh Kiszka’s vocals which seemed to […]
I’ve been listening to music made by Mark Knight since I was in my teens (and to be fair he wasn’t that much older). I saw Bang Tango tour the UK in 1992 when […]
“The true spirt of rock n’ roll is a relentless pursuit that consumes me on a daily basis. Chasing after it, making this record was a race well run” – Ricky Warwick. If you’ve followed Ricky’s […]
30 years after their first album Slammin’ Gladys release sophomore album, the cunningly titled ‘Two’ on Feb. 12th almost 30 years after debut record. It’s an interesting proposition isn’t it – a band you’ve only […]
We open with lilting guitars that seem to herald an 80’s alt rock introduction before strummed guitar washes in with a persistent vocal that cajoles and questions. This isn’t staple ‘verse-chorus-repeat’ fare this is […]
Midnite City have to be one of the best live acts around at the moment so it must be doubly cutting for them that they won’t immediately be able to support their new album […]
Five years ago now Joel Hoekstra released the first Joel Hoekstra 13 record ‘Dying to Live’. At the time he’d been in Whitesnake just a year, replacing Doug Aldrich for a year after a 7 […]
It’s been a while since Magnum brought out The Valley Of Tears – The Ballads, “a compilation that focused on the British rock act’s quiet, more otherworldly and dreamy side.” 3 years later the […]
It’s been over three long years since we were rocking to ‘Once Upon A Time’ Black Diamond’s last full-length release and listening to his new one plus the pandemic stopping us all in out […]
Who doesn’t love s bit of Blues to kick off the year? Chicago-based slide guitar virtuoso and singer-songwriter, Joanna Connor, who is best known as one of the reigning Queens of blues rock guitar, […]
Jeff Pilson and George Lynch are of course former Dokken bandmates and have played together in various other ventures over the years most recently and notably in ‘T&N’ and ‘The End Machine’ – the latter […]
You don’t often meet people with the level of enthusiasm and drive as Steelheart Mili Matijevic, the man with the golden voice seems t have a million things on the go these days but it’s […]
I have no doubt that ‘Retransmission’ is W.E.T.’s best album to date. Big call I know, but when you hear it I know you’ll know what I mean. Indeed I’d actually go as far to […]
It’s been a crazy 2020 without live music and one of the bands that had big plans for touring before Covid struck were the latest incarnation of The Dead Daisies. Those plans currently have been […]
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