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. […]
Amidst covid-19 craziness Chip Z’Nuff’s Enuff Z’Nuff release ‘Brainwashed Generation’ the follow up to 2018’s well received ‘Diamond Boy’ which sees bass player and vocalist Chip Z’Nuff deliver another dose of the band’s patented […]
Recorded at the same time as their last album ‘Under the Sun’ the four songs here shouldn’t be thought as the tracks that didn’t make the cut, but rather those that didn’t feel quite […]
Alison Solo is a British-Canadian Singer, Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She was born in London, England and emigrated to Ontario, Canada at the age of three. Alison self financed and recorded her first album, ‘Sakaita’, […]
Dokken’s last studio album featuring the original line up ‘Shadowlife’ came out in 1997, of course pretty much since that date we’ve been wanting something new from them. We’ve had some nibbles recently with […]
Some chiming, synths and a brooding build up introduce us via ‘Salvation’ to the new album by Dennis Stratton’s ‘Lionheart’ – what follows is a very melodic build to ‘Thine is the Kingdom’ a […]
“They coulda been huge if they’d been from America!” is an accusation that we leveled at a few bands from the UK and Europe back in the day when Stateside they were busily ‘polishing up’ […]
Mitch Perry has been working alongside some of the world’s most renowned musicians for over 25 years now. He has toured with the The Sweet, Michael Schenker Group, Lita Ford, David Lee Roth and […]
I don’t think I’ve been this impressed by a debut album since The Darkness ‘Permission To Land’, The Struts ‘Everybody Wants’ or even The Strokes ‘Is This It’. Three very different albums of course, […]
If you want an eclectic listen then add Chip & The Charge Ups to your listening list, with a release date smack bang in the middle of the pandemic their latest full length offering ‘Lightning […]
Jeremy Harry Harris, the voice of Perth Rock band ‘Stone Circle’ is back after a lengthy absence with an album that you can feel the love coming off of it. It’s 14 tracks of music […]
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