After five years of relentless touring that included playing on some of the most prestigious stages on the planet, Tyketto took their revitalized energy in to the studio in the spring of 2016. The […]
A sold out show in Perth’s Amplifier Bar kick started Lacuna Coil’s first ever headline tour of Australia in style and it seemed even the weather chimed in to welcome Italy’s finest with an […]
Halestorm, the Grammy-Award winning rock outfit from Red Lion, Pennsylvania in the USA are today announcing their Australian East Coast tour dates for January 2017 – and they are bringing their good friends Devilskin from […]
Hardline are set to release their new album “Human Nature” October 14th via Frontiers Music and front man Johnny Gioeli took time out to talk to the Rockpit about the album we think is […]
It seems like years ago since I saw these guys live with Perth Blues Rockers – ‘Ten Thousand Years’, and I told them on the night they should get an album out, and whilst debut […]
As someone who has almost been there for the whole ride, though I must admit to getting to her debut ‘Immortal’ a little late, I was on board before her stunning 1999 breakthrough release ‘Screamin’ […]
Kicking off with first single ‘Only the Brave’ one of the biggest surprises I’ve had all year is how good Tygers of Pan Tang sound in 2016. It’s great, solid, traditional Hard Rock, great musically, […]
Hardline evolved from being a sunset strip sensation featuring brothers Johnny (vocals) and Joey (guitar) Gioeli to a supergroup of sorts featuring former Bad English members Neal Schon and Deen Castronovo, before finally becoming a […]
Grab the hairspray and don those fashionably tight leather pants, Wild Souls have released another album Game of Love, which rocks you out from track to track. A testament to the 80s hard rock genre, […]
I like Mick Wall as a writer, he’s eminently readable and always manages to draw you in so that without noticing you’re often well into the book before you know it. When you look at […]
In the days when American Rock bands ruled the airwaves it was hard for UK bands to get a look in and even when they did – try catching the same breaks when the money isn’t […]
Things change, time moves seemingly more swiftly at certain points in our lives and with a dull tedious thud at others. Things have changed for The Answer one of Irish Rock’s finest ever bands… And […]
No modern band manages the balancing act that Alter Bridge does quite so well – melding the modern, the Metal and Hard Rock into a package that resonates with so many, making them these days […]
Billed in the press release as the missing link between The Sisters of Mercy’s classic ‘First and Last and Always’ and The Mission’s own debut ‘God’s Own Medicine’ by Wayne Hussy himself expectations were necessarily […]
Killer Bee is a Swedish-Canadian hard rocking band formed in the early 1990s by songwriters Anders ‘LA’ Rönnblom and Brian ‘Bee’ Frank. After a number of years in hibernation from 1997 to 2011 the band […]
I’ve travelled overseas a few times in recent years to see particular bands and being based out here on the West Coast of Australia we even have to make that long trip over East […]
It’s almost 20 years now since Led Zeppelin released the BBC Sessions, an acclaimed two-disc set of live recordings selected from the band’s appearances on BBC radio between 1969 and 1971. September 16 2016 sees […]
Like any ‘singer and band part ways’ story the Geoff Tate and Queensryche saga will be playing out for years, but acrimony and law suits aside one thing is clear musically Queensryche 2016 and Operation […]
It’s always interesting trying to dissect what makes a Rock Icon – Punk bands like the Ramones can essentially make the same songs over and over again and become legends and media darlings, whilst those […]
I don’t get ‘Ghost’ – not the image or the sound, but the appeal. Light Melodic pop-laced and sweetly sung it may be, but there are hundreds of other bands out there that do this […]
Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ autobiography was the top-selling book in multiple countries last week, earning raves from fans and critics worldwide. ‘Chapter and Verse,’ the audio companion to the gripping 528-page memoir, is 2016’s […]
Orange County, Californian hard rock trio Idlewar officially unveil their ‘Impulse’ full-length debut. Produced by drummer Pete Pagonis and mastered by Brian Lucey (Ghost ‘Meliora’, Black Keys ‘El Camino’, Arctic Monkeys ‘AM’, plus albums by […]
When I was young Kansas was one of those giant US bands that you read about in the press yet would never quite reach into the pocket to purchase an album sight unseen and never […]
In my humble opinion Tyketto was one of the best Hard Rock bands of the eighties no question about it, and their debut album ‘Don’t Come Easy’ has always sat comfortably in my all-time Top […]
For years now Claude Hay has travelled the world and criss-crossed Australia playing venues small and large and wowing audiences with his earthy rock-infused, yet funky take on that thing we call The Blues. During […]
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