On July 21, 2017, Swedish classic rock icons EUROPE will share their unique 30th Anniversary performance of The Final Countdown from London’s legendary Roundhouse with fans everywhere. The band’s new limited edition audio/video release, The Final […]
25 Years after their last release and 31 years after their formation, Norway’s Da Vinci returns with a new album ‘Ambition Rocks’ though with a press release that hints as a line-up change it’s hard to […]
Australian Blues is a rich and fertile land these days and whist there are a few agricultural labourers out there, there are also some real artisans who manage to consistently reinvent the landscape whilst showing […]
Every once in a while a really special album comes along that is so good it makes labels and genre classifications irrelevant – it’s just damned fine music. Wherever you sit on the scale of […]
Gene Loves Jezebel has just released the album of their career thirty years after the seminal ‘House of Dolls’ album which in 1987 should have been the album to catapult them to the big time. […]
Richie Kotzen is perhaps best known for the illustrious band projects he’s been a part of over the years but for those with a great ear for music it’s in his solo work that the […]
Back in April Michael Monroe released the single ‘One Foot Outta The Grave’, a new song which grabbed you with such immediacy and force so soon after the magnificent 2015 opus ‘Blackout States’ that you knew […]
I’ve long been a fan of Dave King’s Flogging Molly and even longer been a fan of Dave King’s vocals since the first time I saw him onstage way, way back in a band called […]
Spread Eagle will embark on their first overseas tour. The trek will include performances at Hair Metal Heaven festival, Hard Rock Hell Sleaze festival, plus shows with Junkyard, Vain and Babylon A.D. Fans have the […]
The Ultimate Eagles are in Australia for their first ever tour Downunder. Already an international phenomenon, they have become a brand name in their own right, performing to over 500,000 fans worldwide and clocking up […]
Earlier this year Jack Russell’s Great White finally put out their response to Great White’s 2012 Russell-less album ‘Elation’ – it was an album that covered a lot of ground musically but one which stepped […]
Don’t Miss this Summer’s Biggest Hard Rock Party: Creed’s SCOTT STAPP & Full Band Performing Creed Hits SICK PUPPIES DROWNING POOL TRAPT ADELITAS WAY + More of your favorite bands appearing on select dates! […]
TOUR KICKS OFF JULY 26 IN INDIANAPOLIS ON THE HEELS OF OVERSEAS SHOWS AND FESTIVAL APPEARANCES SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM OUT JUNE 9 VIA EAGLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT The Magpie Salute – Credit: Shervin Lainez […]
LONDON, UK (30th May, 2017) – Fresh from releasing their album, One More Light, which hit #4 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart and topped the charts in the USA, Linkin Park return to our shores this Summer […]
Fast rising hard rockers Louder Still unveil their debut single ‘Speed Machine’, set for release through up and coming label Rockbuster on 2nd June. Bringing a new shine to 70s rock and early NWOBHM era, the Reading foursome swim against the tide of the […]
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 […]
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