This is an interesting one at the start of the year – the impressive pipes of Animal Drives’ Dino Jelusic plus the guitar of George Lynch creating Hard Rock in the style of vintage Rainbow […]
I love the days after putting out the Best of the year lists when I get deluged with comments and e-mails telling me what I’ve missed. the truth is that The Rockpit gets sent about […]
There’s a rich psychedelic swirl that sells around the opening track ‘Sooner or Later’ and a stomp and groove to ‘Gimme Something’ that give High Water II the most satisfying of openings. This is […]
It’s hard to compare apples with oranges let alone bananas so this year we’re not even going to try. This year our ‘Best of’ lists will feature Hard Rock, Metal and Blues categories picked by […]
Sometimes we get a little time at the end of interviews to cover off some of the questions readers have sent in, or simply just to ask a few random questions we’d not normally ask […]
The February 2020 release makes me feel like an insider having already lived with this album for a few weeks now a good 120 days before the release that has already been preceded by […]
When talking about Adelaide’s The Babes I once said… “Some bands have that indefinable ‘something’ – an attitude and a belief that both transcends the music they make and also helps define it. The Babes […]
Revolution Saints have returned with their third album and when you listen to opening track ‘When The Heartache is Gone’ you’d be forgiven for thinking that Revolution Saints had turned into Journey so strong […]
It’s hard to sit here in the same year as an album is released and contemplate if it will be one of the greats, but seven years in the making and many gigs and many […]
2016’s ‘Bovonic Empire’ was a great release from Buffalo Crows, but turning this one over in the hands from the artwork you’d be pushed to realise that ‘Picnic at Buffalo Rock’ is by that […]
Get ready for a seventeen song time-capsule. Texan Rockers Randee Lee, Razar King and Gary Priest have unearthed some old recordings from 40 years ago that are finally seeing the light of day on […]
Every band these days needs to grab your attention fast and Kings County’s rather short bio is bith unusual and intriguing… “Originally from Long Island, NY, Orlando, FL-based KINGS COUNTY creates hard-hitting rock n’ roll […]
Now there’s Stoner Rock and there’s Stoner Rock and Orange County’s Albatross Overdrive may well leave the sting of desert sands in the nostrils but they do so much more too. Three albums in ‘Ascendant’ […]
Some bands just evoke a place and a time and to me Heavy Pettin’ always reminds me of the early days of my lifelong love affair with Rock and Roll when I first started […]
Formed in 1982 Melbourne’s The Dirty Rats finally got off the mark with their debut album release last year and now they’re back with a second in quick succession. If you expected the ensuing decades […]
2019 has seen a huge number of great live albums released and this is really one of the best all year. After last years Alcatrazz reunion that resulted in the live release ‘Parole Denied – […]
Let’s face it there have been very few classic Christmas songs and even fewer classic Christmas song collections in the rock arena over the years. Can I just spoil all that humbug by saying […]
For those that were around at the end of the 80’s in the UK when Pop ruled the airwaves and Hair Metal was a continent away (and Grunge still over the horizon), there was a […]
Horsehead is a name that any Australian Rocker around in the 90’s will know and love. Formed in 1991 by Scott Kingman and Cameron McKenzie on guitars, Andy McLean on vocals, Mick Vallance on bass […]
The day is here – one of the biggest dates of the year sees Perth’s own Maverick Firebird, Elephant Orgy and The Terror Adaptors at the Sewing Room for a night of searing rock and […]
I’ve always been a great fan of Glover’s voice but this is the sort of territory I love him inhabiting – nice guitar-driven hard rock courtesy of Stevie D. From opener ‘Your Time Has Run […]
If you want some good old fashioned Hard Rock with lashings of early 80’s flavour then this is something you might want to have a listen to. Sweden’s Steelwings are unapologetically retro from openers ‘My […]
‘Blood & Irony,’ a song co-written with Black Star Riders Ricky Warwick, that opens Anchor Lane’s first long-player is a song that leaves a lot of doors open. It’s laid back, built on a repetitive […]
Mötley Crüe have been in the news lately, you might have seen them. You know that band that could never, ever tour again because they’d signed a ‘cessation of touring agreement’ saying just that. […]
To me there’s nothing quite like a nice slab of Sleazy Rock and Roll, the sort of music that injects a bit of fun back into those dark nights post-grunge. The music that was the […]
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