When bands lose a member, especially an iconic member and especially a vocalist, passions can run high with fans when that member is replaced. Think of AC/DC’s (second) vocalist Bon Scott and jis replacement Brian […]
The second show of the Red Hot Summer Tour (Series One) rolled into Perth’s Swan Valley with a 10,000 sell-out crowd eager to see the star studded line-up perform in the natural amphitheatre of Sandalford’s […]
To anyone who grew up in the UK in the seventies with an interest in Rock music Status Quo were legends. Maybe the most ‘British’ of all bands of that era the sound they made […]
Back in 2011 one of our favourite bands Thunder who had been on hiatus since the Farewell Tour in 2009 announced two shows, we got in to talk to Danny as fast as we could… […]
This year I’m going to have a bitch each month about things that bother me and let’s start January with something close to the heart of every Rock fan – why your favorite bands aren’t […]
This year 2019, we’ll be digging back into The Rockpit archives as we celebrate our tenth Anniversary and looking at some of the great interviews, the best conversations and the ‘if onlys’ – this week […]
Cool name for a first album eh? The Lockhearts have been on The Rockpit’s radar since they dropped their first EP back in 2014 and followed it up with the wonderful double EP ‘Tales From […]
When I first read the title of the first Greta Van Fleet album I thought I could see the writing on the wall for Rock’s latest saviours – ‘the sound of Led Zeppelin with an […]
Imagine you’re suddenly the coolest band in the World. Imagine that all the hard work over the last 9 years has got you to a point where not only every major Rock act that matters […]
There’s a lot of talk about the UK’s Collateral at the moment and this their debut EP – “4 Shots” is the first chance those of us outside of the UK have has to see […]
One one hand being signed to Frontiers gives you a slot with a Rock label who are slowly buying up all our memories from the last thirty years and adding a few new ones along […]
Thunder will release their brand new studio album ‘Please Remain Seated’ on 18 January 2019 through BMG. The album, released as the band enter their third decade, is a collection of radically reworked versions of […]
Formed 50 years ago in 1968 by the legendary line-up of Dan McCafferty, Manny Charlton, Pete Agnew and Darrell Sweet, a line-up that endured till 1990 (occasionally adding a second guitarist or keys) Nazareth were […]
Start off with a killer song and keep the party going till the last note of the very last track appears to have been Vega’s ‘raison d’être’ going into album number five ‘Only Human’ and […]
If you’ve followed Melbourne’s The Radio Sun over the last five years you’ll have witnessed a band who aren’t afraid of hard work – playing stages around the world and still making the time to […]
The UK’s obsession with Blackberry Smoke has always been a fascination for me, not that I’m not a fan of the band, just that it’s not the sort of music that traditionally the UK’s rock […]
Formed last millennium and with a line-up that’s changed more than most over the years Uriah Heep in 2018 is still a must for lovers of Classic Rock. If you’re uncertain or wonder how that […]
Sulo has to be one of the most prolific artists out there these days clocking in an average of 5 releases a year in either solo mode or as part of other projects, and as […]
It has been a while since Lizzy Borden’s last studio outing – 11 years in fact (since the wonderful Appointment With Death), and during that time the band has continued to tour and been through […]
You know sometimes when a vocalist’s voice just doesn’t click with you. Well this is one of those albums for me sadly and Peter Ellis’ voice joins Geddy Lee, Ozzy and Klaus Meine on my […]
Back in the day way before the internet the US was full of Radio Rock bands that never ever seemed to look outside the Country, let alone tour. Fast-forward a few years to the eighties […]
Toronto, Canada – November 23, 2018 – A new musical built around legendary band FOREIGNER’s peerless catalogue of hit songs will make its world premiere this winter in Toronto. FOREIGNER recently celebrated its 40th anniversary of rocking […]
Sometimes you read press releases from bands who don’t have English as their first language and have a chuckle at some of the wording but there’s no excuse really from an agency getting it wrong, […]
As pet hate’s go a few seconds of music passed off as a track is right up there, so the 48 seconds of ‘atmospheric keys’ that make up ‘Delusion’ are aptly titled. Look if these […]
Ten years and five albums isn’t a bad return for any band these days let alone an AOR band from Melbourne Australia,but over the last decade White Widow have proved that it doesn’t matter where […]
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