There’s a grand architecture to Europe’s style of Rock these days that isn’t constrained by a push towards building cheap chart success, and it’s that bigger vision that gives them a real freedom to do […]
What’s happening with Buckcherry these days? Over the last few years we had a flurry of activity starting with the wonderful visit down-under in 2013 for the Stone Music Festival and a few select dates, […]
After a career of 48 years and counting you deserve to put out a covers record, indeed it’s rather remarkable that over the years UFO hasn’t jumped on either the ‘covers’ or the ‘acoustic’ bandwagons, […]
There’s a real depth to the sound of Travelin Jack and a great immediacy. ‘Land of the River’ which opens has me thinking of Jefferson Airplane and vintage Alice Cooper Band, lavishly painted with a […]
Solo artist and ex-Guns ‘n’ Roses guitar-slinger Gilby Clarke is headed down-under for short set of shows this December. Starting off as guitarist in Candy, Gilby left to form his own band Kill for Thrills (whose […]
Fiction Syxx, is the brain child of songwriter/vocalist/guitarist, Mark Allen Lanoue. But like all ideas, including musical ones, it is not just about the writing; it is about the delivery. So, after writing the first song […]
There’s a bluesy, whiskey-soaked yearning to the opening strains of ‘Black Rain’ a song that sounds like it could only have been born in the seventies. That is until it hits full sprint with a […]
Bigfoot is a hard rock band from Wigan, England, with a penchant for putting a musical boot up your…..well, where the sun don’t shine, as they say! Bursting onto the scene in the spring of […]
Babylon A.D. was always one of my favourite bands from the late 80’s / early 90’s. They were a band that had the songs and the talents to put so many much bigger bands in […]
Black Stone Cherry, long one of The Rockpit’s favourite bands have just released a new EP entitled ‘Black to Blues’. Selecting 6 of their favorite tunes by Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Freddie King and […]
Mark: ‘Songs For Smiles’ is an absolutely massive undertaking – you cover a song a day for a year to raise money for a great charity. Take it a little way back for us though […]
Squeeze, even in the days my diet consisted of mainly hard rock were a band I always loved. Glen Tilbrook as far as I was concerned was right up there with lyricism of Ray Davies […]
Sometimes you just hear an album and it really captures your imagination. ‘Once Upon a Time’ by Switzerland’s Black Diamonds is one of those albums. Formed in 2004, ‘Black Diamonds’ are a hard rock band […]
Following a successful two year period that saw The Sword release their fifth studio album High Country, followed by the acoustic album Low Country and the live album Greetings From…, along with extensive worldwide […]
THE RADIO SUN have released another new single Tonight’s The Night from their fourth full length album ‘Unstoppable’ out October 20th via Pride & Joy Music Germany, Anderstein Music Japan and direct from the band […]
“If you’re one of those lame ass people that’s not into Rock N’ Roll… then you clearly have something evil deep inside. Thankfully an exorcism will set you free, allowing the return of your […]
Mollie Marriott has a new video out today from her forthcoming album entitled “Truth is A Wolf” released on Friday 13th October. Paul Weller features on the new single playing Hammond organ and guitar. Mollie […]
This year I’m pretty much overwhelmed by the sheer quality of releases coming out of the UK Hard Rock scene and it’s time to add another name to that ever growing list – Bigfoot, who […]
Babylon A.D. was always one of my favourite bands from the late 80’s / early 90’s. They were a band that had the songs and the talents to put so many much bigger bands in […]
Abstract Entertainment are proud to present the music from three of Britain’s highly successful pop groups of the seventies touring Australia together in November 2017 for the first time. These artists include Richard Gower former lead singer of Racey (Baby It’s […]
With three albums released so far the wait is over. Coldspell are ready to strike again with the brand new album titled “A New World Arise”. This is stunning recording that features 12 new songs […]
There’s a real energy, chunky groove a great melody to ‘Erased’ the first song from 10 Rogue on this their debut album ‘Serpentine’. A multinational band 10 ROGUE, was founded in Johannesburg S Africa, but are […]
Kingswood are on of those very few Australian Rock bands that stand in that exciting ‘no mans land’ between the real shot at the big leagues and homegrown hugeness and ‘rest of the world’ mild […]
Dirty Thrills are an exciting and charismatic bluesy hard rock quartet from London, UK. Fronted by the son of ex-Moody Blues singer Nicky James, this unique outfit are bringing back old school rock ‘n’ roll, while […]
Its always been one of those oh so ironic American stereotypes that the English have bad teeth when the truth is that Americans have amongst the worst teeth in the world along with us Australians […]
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