It’s hard to get a take on 5ive Years Gone from opening track ‘Mary Jane’, it’s understated hard rock with a nice groove and nice melodies, and a little Classic Rock flavour, it’s pretty […]
Hate For Sale, The Pretenders’ eleventh studio album, is the first album to be recorded with the now longest-standing touring line-up of the group and the first to be written collaboratively by Chrissie Hynde […]
Formed in 2016, the quartet delivers relentless, memorable performances at the jet engine decibels of a Boeing 747. Consisting of vocalist Reed Alton, guitarist Shaddy Elsaghir, bassist Duncan McCartney, and drummer Keaton Byfield, the […]
Wales has some pretty canny Hard Rock bands in 2020 and here’s another you’ll have to add to that list – Raider whose debut EP ‘Tokyo’ is out now. If you hanker after the […]
The Answer have to be one of my very favourite Rock bands to come out of Belfast, and over the years they’ve made some wonderful music, the best of which you feel is yet to […]
Janet Gardner & Justin James are back mid coronavirus with their aptly-named third album ‘Synergy’ out on August 7th. They do say the third time’s a charm, but in truth so were the first […]
Ask me who my favorite song-writer is and it’s a very short list, but I think over the years Donnie Vie is consistently at that summit. The music he has made of the years just […]
TOKYO MOTOR FIST, the band featuring Trixter guitarist Steve Brown and Danger Danger vocalist Ted Poley released its sophomore album ‘Lions’, on July 10 via Frontiers Music, and what an album it is! We caught […]
Back in the very first days of the Rockpit I remember listening to a bunch of albums I’d just bought on a trip to the US. One of the very best was ‘Strip Rock Roll’ […]
Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts was due to be the opening act for Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe stadium tour last month before it was postponed to 2021, however, despite this, Tuk is […]
It seems like only the other day that the debut from Tokyo Motor Fist dropped – the band that features Danger Danger singer Ted Poley and Trixter’s guitarist/producer Steve Brown together with bassist Greg Smith […]
The press release for this one actually starts out “For fans of Motionless Def Leppard, H.E.A.T., Reckless Love” Now really what does that mean? What is a Motionless Def Leppard? and if there’s just a […]
With three albums already behind them SAP (Scott Allen Project) returns with an new seven track instrumental EP that bursts with Progressive Metal soundscapes and is bolstered by a guest appearance by Derek Sherinian […]
I don’t usually review a lot of what you might call Metal – sticking largely to Hard Rock and Blues but every now and again I hear a band that really grabs me, like […]
One of my favorite bands of the 00’s – Endeverafter released one great album in 2007 on Razor & Tie – ‘Kiss or Kill’ after their first full length recording ‘Ashes of Sin’ had […]
As a rule we don’t normally review releases that are past six months old, but there’s always an exception. This though has to be the oldest release we’ve committed to print though as it […]
Southern Rock has always stood the test of time and Ron Keel and co are keeping that alive on their latest release South X South Dakota – a collection of 11 tracks of some of […]
Back in 2009 the late great Luther Allison had a live CD and DVD collection released posthumously by his label Ruf. Allison died on August 12, 1997, just five days before his 58th birthday, and […]
Synchronize is a verb meaning to make two or more objects or actions happen in the same moment. Outside the United States it is spelled properly – synchronise. I wonder then why a UK band […]
I love the relentless bassy drive and guitar wail of opener ‘It’s All Gone Wrong’ which if I’m honest is the first ever song I can remember listening to by Savoy Brown, a band […]
Chip Z’Nuff and Enuff Z’Nuff were over in Australia for the first time ever earlier in the year before Covid-19 changed the game for live music globally. Getting home was a close call – they […]
Lionheart are just about to release their new album ‘The Reality of Miracles’ and it is something rather special. The band which is made up of Iron Maiden’s first guitarist Dennis Stratton, Steve Mann (Michael […]
New Jersey born singer Fiona’s first two albums were the sensational self titled debut album in 1985 and the equally impressive ‘Beyond the Pale’ in 1986. Two more great collections followed with ‘Heart Like […]
There are two ways you can look at the new EP by Radio Sun’s Stevie Janevski and Danny Cecati (ex Pegazus & Eyefear) the first is that it’s simply bloody good homegrown Hard Rock […]
Homegrown Melodic Rock doesn’t get a lot better than this. A month ago I’d never heard of Adelaide’s Sonic Divide who have just released their second album ‘The Other Side’. Today I’m a firm fan. […]
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