To many people the BulletBoys were just another band that formed part of that MTV, big hair, Sunset Strip scene of the late eighties and there was one song that stood above all others: ‘Smooth […]
I’ve seen so many great L.A. Guns shows over the years starting out on their very first tour of the UK and catching pretty much every early UK visit after that (The Skid Row, L.A. […]
If you’ve not heard of Tax the Heat then you’re missing out as they have to be one of the most exciting ‘new’ Rock bands in the UK at the moment. we caught up […]
THE DEAD DAISIES released their new Album “BURN IT DOWN” via Spitfire Music / SPV on Friday, April 6th, 2018. Their 2018 WORLD TOUR is also set to Bring the Heat to a Town near you!! […]
I well remember the very day that I purchased ‘Beast From the East’ on vinyl from my local record store in 1988 and spinning it relentlessly till I wore it out. The band had just […]
“BURN IT DOWN” out today via Spitfire Music / SPV!! | 2018 WORLD TOUR kicks off with a sold-out show on Sunday in Glasgow!! “At the end of the day…this is one of the best […]
There’s a showiness and jauntiness to the lead guitar on opening track ‘No Mercy’ that clearly says we’re not in 1988 anymore. The thrust is still there, that wonderfully spiky riff, that raw aggression but […]
THE DEAD DAISIES release their new Album “BURN IT DOWN” via Spitfire Music / SPV on Friday, April 6th, 2018 as well as a 2018 WORLD TOUR which will Bring the Heat to a Town […]
BulletBoys kick off their latest release with a rather cool little number called ‘Apocalypto’ that starts out with a funky little verse and bursts into a fiery rocker with every chorus. It works well and […]
As live albums go this one is a keeper, and as someone who has seen the show live it’s a damned fine representation of what John and his band do onstage. For those of you […]
Now if you were to ask me about some of the best debut albums of the 80’s I’d have a pretty long list and a pretty varied one, but vying for position in the upper […]
Earlier this year ‘Josh Todd and the Conflict’ debuted with ‘Year of the Tiger’ now here we are a few months later with another famous frontman using the same title for his debut solo album. […]
On March 13, 2018, Mark Knight & the Unsung Heroes released what I think is quite probably Mark’s finest album to date “Don’t Kill the Cat”. It’s an album that he’s been building to since […]
After a false start a couple of years back now John Waite is finally headed down-under for the very first time. He’s one of the artists I’ve always wanted to see but have rarely been […]
If you’re a modern day Melodic Rock fan then it doesn’t get much better than W.E.T. the band that combines the talents of Eclipse’s Erik Martensson (Nordic Union, Ammunition), vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (Sons of […]
Rose Tattoo are for many including myself ‘the’ great Aussie Rock band. Sure AC/DC made it bigger and burned brighter but the Tatts kept it dirtier, grittier and had the real passion and fury […]
Over the last five years the Dead Daisies have produced three damn good studio albums, a rather tasty live album and now their fourth album ‘Burn It Down’ is about to drop. It’s an album […]
Mark: Hi, Glenn, how are you? I must admit to being a long term fan of Squeeze, takes me back to my youth, and to find you guys coming over for the first time since […]
There’s a huge magical slow groove to opener ‘Hey Mama’ the duet with Oni Logan (of Lynch Mob fame): it’s a song cut from ancient bluesy cloth but with a vibrancy and refrain that is […]
Saxon is a band that gets better with age and this year they just released what even may be the finest of a very fine run of recent releases in ‘Thunderbolt’. We caught up with […]
This past Friday, Croatia’s Animal Drive released their debut “Bite” via Frontiers Music Srl. Animal Drive are part of Frontiers’ New Breed Family. The New Breed family is the label’s stable of young, exciting, up […]
I first heard the name Mark Tremalgia when he joined Bang Tango back in 1993 after the departure of guitarist Kyle Stevens. He stayed with the band till 1999 and recorded the classic and criminally […]
25-year old British blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, Laurence Jones, will release his new studio album ‘The Truth’ on Friday 9th March 2018. To dovetail the release of the album, Laurence will start his nationwide […]
Black Stone Cherry have always been a force to reckon with, but their last album ‘Kentucky’, still barely a year old, was the album for me where it all came together perfectly. Going back to […]
Little Caesar for me were one of the very best bands to emerge from the resurgence of rock into the mainstream at the end of the eighties before it was all washed away by the […]
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