You always remember the great ones, like that first time you dropped the needle on ‘Lynyrd Skynyrd’ or ‘ZZ Top’, the very first time you heard ‘The Black Crowes’ or the time ‘Mountain’ came on […]
This has to be one of my favourite albums of the year so far: Black Diamonds, formed in 2004, are a hard rock band based in the Rhine Valley in eastern Switzerland and if you […]
Glenn Hughes is a true original whose music blends hard rock, soul, and funk.The Glenn Hughes “Storytellers” event, held at London’s historic Cafe de Paris from 12 noon to 4pm on Saturday 25th February 2017, is a […]
ON TOUR IN THE UK FROM MARCH 2017 Rainbreakers are pleased to announce the release of their highly anticipated second EP “Rise Up” on Friday 7th April. The 5-track EP was recorded at Purple Door […]
Dontcha sometimes just hate some aspects of record labels, sure they put out the goodies for us when we want them but this whole re-packaging thing should surely contain a ‘this material has been previously […]
WORLDWIDE TOUR STARTS IN THE U.S. APRIL 21 IN AGOURA HILLS, CA February 9, 2017 — RICHIE KOTZEN has never been an artist known for playing by the rules. And for this ever-adventurous triple-threat songwriter/guitarist/vocalist, […]
DURING THE 1980s the music scene was exploding with an abundance of great rock bands – including multi-platinum sellers such as Mötley Crüe, Quiet Riot and RATT – but there was always room for talented […]
Celebrated South African blues rock guitarist Dan Patlansky returns to the UK for his April / May 2017 UK Tour with special guest Ash Wilson. This will be the first tour Patlansky will undertake […]
In my humble opinion THUNDER is the UK’s greatest Rock band of the 80’s and I’ve been a paid up member of the ‘Thunder Channel’ ever since I saw them supporting AEROSMITH back on the PUMP tour. […]
Years ago when I was a kid they used to have these comics called Marvel Team-Up that threw together two of your favourite superheroes and let the games begin. Well Frontiers records seems to have […]
Great band Armored Saint – to me they were the one band that perfectly stood astride Metal and Hard Rock and really ‘got’ both genres. Since The Rockpit’s inception there have been two albums – […]
“TATTS: LIVE IN BRUNSWICK” OUT NOW Tatts: Live in Brunswick is a 14-track album recorded at Melbourne’s Bombay Bicycle Club in Brunswick in 1982 and mastered for loyal fans in 2017. Released via powerhouse indie […]
In my humble opinion THUNDER is the UK’s greatest Rock band of the 80’s and I’ve been a paid up member of the ‘Thunder Channel’ ever since I saw them supporting AEROSMITH back on the PUMP tour. […]
Legendary AEROSMITH guitarist JOE PERRY is pictured here after being presented with the Les Paul Award at 32nd Annual NAMM TEC Awards. Perry presented with the prestigious honour by his Hollywood Vampires bandmate Johnny Depp, […]
Best known for his own band Prophets of Addiction and his stint in 80’s Glam legends Pretty Boy Floyd Lesli Sanders latest solo release may only be 5 tracks long but it packs a punch […]
Recorded in 1982, mastered for 2017: “TATTS: LIVE IN BRUNSWICK” out now. Tatts: Live in Brunswick is a 14-track album recorded at Melbourne’s Bombay Bicycle Club in Brunswick in 1982 and mastered for loyal fans in […]
Australian singer/songwriter, Rick Price has walked the journey many musicians dreams are made of. In the 90’s very few southern hemisphere radio stations would go a day without a Rick Price song on high […]
Fast rising northern stars, The Jerry Cans, create music inspired by their hometown of Iqaluit, Nunavut in Canada’s frozen far north. They fuse their unique mix of Inuktitut alt-country, throat singing, and reggae with a […]
Groovin The Moo has announced its 2017 lineup, lined with a bunch of international and local favourites. The regional festival will trip around to six locations in Australia over April and May, and there are […]
Every so often an album drops that you feel might just be one that will stay with you for a very long time, less frequently you hear an album that perfectly exemplifies a certain genre […]
The music world is a strange place these days with bands that aren’t bands, bands that never tour, bands that create albums living in different cities and hundreds of solo and side projects that will never […]
Opening with the rather odd ‘The Last Bell Ringing’ on which a sparse backing track accompanies a foreboding lyric, sung seemingly through clenched teeth by David Moran doing his best ‘Tom Waits’ and mouthing what […]
Three albums in Lionville has found a home with Frontiers Records and released what is probably their best album to date. Mixing Melodic Rock with AOR and a laconic take on Westcoast they draw on […]
Black Star Riders will be known to most as the band that was formed by the current day line-up of Thin Lizzy in December 2012 as a vehicle for new music. Since making that decision they have […]
Formed in Ohio as LOVE AND WAR in 1991 and despite some minor successes, the newly reformed/reborn APOCALYPTIC LOVERS missed out on the brass ring of mega musical success the first time around. Now geographically […]
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