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 […]
11 albums into a career that started back in 2001 it’s always surprised me that psychedelic / space rockers baby Woodrose aren’t better known outside their native Denmark. If you like a languid, breezy approach […]
It’s been 5 long years since ‘Back To Life’ Soul Seller’s impressive debut album. With a new vocalist, keysman and drummer on board there’s also an expansion in sound from the straight 80’s Melodic Rock of […]
As an original fan who saw the band many a time prior to that first album way back when (and still has those independent singles) and also as a latter day fan mightily impressed with […]
The Australian public will be getting what the public wants, with the announcement that classic British punk / mod-revival act From The Jam will be returning to for a national tour of Australia in […]
Crobot’s debut ‘Something Supernatural’ featured highly in our lists of the year back in 2014 and after a wait of almost 2 and a half years the follow up was always going to be interesting. […]
I’ve always been a big fan of Ginger Wildheart – the man is a song-writer of the sort of quality that doesn’t come around too often and seems to be as prolific as anyone out there […]
It’s been almost 30 years since I last spoke to Craig Adams, long ago in another country, it seems like another world. The Mission were new, we were both considerably younger and now we’re […]
I don’t know why Delain don’t get mentioned in the same breath as their chosen genre’s symphonic masters more often, after all they tick all the boxes – big songs, fantastic female vocalist, sweeping melodies […]
The band formerly known as ‘Thunderchief’ now release the album ‘Thunderchief’ under the new name ‘Shotgun Sawyer’… Coming out of nowhere this album surprised us by how good it is, chock full of heavy blues […]
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