January 4th 1967 was the day that music changed. For some it was a seismic moment for others a gentle shift and for me discovering it years later it was the album in my parents […]
Secret Sounds Presents: Bernard Fanning Sold Out Shows Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth & Brisbane Second show in Adelaide and third show in Brisbane Added General Tickets On Sale now from bernardfanning.com Tickets for Bernard Fanning’s […]
TICKETS GO ON SALE June 2nd AT WWW.JEFFPARRYPROMOTIONS.COM/FOREIGNER NEW FOREIGNER MUSICAL: JUKE BOX HERO, DIRECTED BY LEGENDARY BROADWAY VETERAN RANDY JOHNSON, TO PREMIERE IN ALBERTA, CANADA “I Want To Know What Love Is.” […]
It’s a kind of odd concept to think of the sons and nephew of members of Rock’s first ‘Supergroup’ getting together to honour the music of their fathers – after all isn’t each successive generation under […]
There have been many, many great AOR and Melodic Rock records released over the past twelve months and over the past decade as a genre the quality you might even argue is at an all time high. […]
Formed in 1980 by identical twin brothers Jay and Michael Aston, Gene Loves Jezebel transformed early from a brooding Goth band on ‘Promise’ (1983) and ‘Immigrant’ (1985) to a far more commercial yet unique rock band […]
Iconic vocalist and frontman of a reformed Soundgarden Chris Cornell has died unexpectedly. The band played Detroit’s Fox Theatre hours before his untimely death and ere due to headline day one of the Rock on […]
“When you see him playing you think ‘Oh my god, he’s doing that all by himself’.” – Eric Idle, Monty Python “Imagine Chet Atkins with the testosterone of Eddie Van Halen…” – Steve Vai Australia’s […]
When I first started attending festivals things were simple – you’d plan for a year with your mates, wait patiently for line up announcements in the music papers, listen to the bands on the media […]
Every once in a while you get really excited by a band who manage to encapsulate all that is good about a particular style or music or point in time, some bands seem to have […]
The Bay City Roller’s main man Les McKeown is coming to Australia in June and July to show us what made his band the biggest in the World for a time in the mid 70’s. […]
Montreal, QC’s THE RISING FEW are upping their game with a bigger sound and larger than life songs with the launch of their taunting new EP ‘Adult Entertainment’, a high-energy, anthemic songbook sure to resonate […]
In these post-bootleg days when the world seems to want even official material ‘free’ and music has been relegated to a rather toxic, highly polluted stream that suits no-one but the streaming companies and large labels its […]
Dirtbag Republic’s self-titled debut album was one of my favourite releases of 2015 and if you were to ask me again today I could honestly say it’s one of only two albums from that year […]
There’s a laid back charm and certain precise progressive yet melodic dexterity to Raw Silk’s latest album ‘The Borders of Light’ which follows the acclaimed debut from the 90’s ‘Silk Under The Skin’. It’s certainly been […]
Being solidly labelled with the tag ‘Doom’ in my opinion does Avatarium no favours at all – for me the band is a complex and compelling mix of styles and real substance that defies and […]
With a name like American Rebel Soul I must admit I had imagined either a gritty Metal band from Texas or a Southern Rock band flying the flag for the South. What I hadn’t expected […]
The call went out. Time for a new MR. BIG album. They convened in a Los Angeles studio and in a matter of six days, the boundless result of all that musical talent is DEFYING […]
There are surely only so many times you can reach back into your own history and light the spark again hoping it catches? Uli Jon Roth is a master guitarist make no mistake, but his […]
As a long time Blondie fan I always get rather apprehensive when they release and album especially over the last decade when releases have ranged from the sublime ‘Panic of Girls’ to the awful ‘Ghosts of […]
Opening with a diverse set of songs – the airy Blues Rock of ‘Man Out of Time’; the soulful deep southern Gospel infused ‘Wade waist Deep’ and the ‘Folkified’ country breeze of ‘Heartbreak Alley’ Thomas […]
When you find a great local band all you really want to do is tell everyone about them. The New Savages are a great Blues Rock combo from Melbourne who love that old Delta Blues. […]
Bruce Kulick may well be best known for his time in iconic Rock band Kiss, and some may argue that during his 12 years as guitarist with the band after the short stays of […]
Back in the day Rock Goddess of course couldn’t help the Girlschool comparisons, now before you write that off as ‘just because they were a girl band too’, (a rather lazy sentiment that would have […]
There’s a real earthy accessibility and youthful vitality to Greece’s Cyanide 4 and their vintage take on Hard Rock. Take the opening track ‘Restless’ – it’s nothing you haven’t heard before, nothing that you didn’t […]
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