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The Quireboys – Twisted Love
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 […]
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INTERVIEW: Bruce Foxton – From The Jam
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 […]
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Crobot – Welcome to Fat City
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. […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Hey! Hello! – Too!
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 […]
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INTERVIEW: Craig Adams – The Mission
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 […]
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Delain – Moonbathers
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 […]
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Shotgun Sawyer – Thunderchief
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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Twisted Sister – The Best of the Atlantic Years
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ALBUM REVIEW: Buffalo Crows – Bovonic Empire
Any band can mix it up but these guys have managed to gather in all their influences and pretty much stamp it with their own bovine seal of approval. Long live the Buffalo!” Read our […]
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Jackyl – ROWYCO
We’ve seen Jackyl a bunch of times live and ‘redneck and proud’ as they are, to the extent where sometimes it can overshadow their music, they are actually also a pretty damned good band who […]
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Sodom – Decision Day
German thrashers Sodom have been pretty consistent as far as new material is concerned in their long career, the last 10 years alone has been steady with a new album every 3 years. 2016 sees […]
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The Dead Daisies – Make Some Noise
After two very fine albums in as many years, two singers and several other lineup changes The Dead Daisies are back with their third long-player – ‘Make Some Noise’ and a new guitarist in ex-Burning […]
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INTERVIEW: Kris – In The Now
For a place so remote and relatively small in size, Perth in Western Australia manages to put out some fine Hard Rock, the latest band to catch The Rockpit’s attention is ‘In the Now’. […]
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Cruzh – Cruzh
You can’t really go far past the Bon Jovi comparisons on this release from Sweden’s Cruzh. This album indeed has a lot of the hallmarks shared long ago by those New Jersey natives – especially […]
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The Ann Wilson Thing! – #2 EP (Focus)
The best female voice in rock is back with the second instalment from her appropriately-titled ‘Ann Wilson Thing’ and whilst some may question the need, the relevance or even the intent of such a […]
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King of the North – Get Out of Your World
King of The North’s debut was one of the albums of the year back in 2014 and new album ‘Get Out of Your World’ sees Higgsy with new drummer Steve Tyssen in tow release an […]
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INTERVIEW: John Corabi – The Dead Daisies
With a new, and we reckon their best album so far ‘Make Some Noise’ about to drop on August 5th The Dead Daisies are set to embark on a three month European and US […]
News: General
3 Parts Dead to release new EP ‘Master’ on August 2, 2016
Boston, Massachusetts, USA based rockers 3 Parts Dead will be releasing their new three song EP Master on August 2, 2016. Born out of the ashes of Pretty Little Suicide if you like your Rock N Roll nice and […]
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Thunderbird – Heavyweight
If you like your Classic Hard Rock the way it was delivered in the late seventies and the early eighties then Vancouver’s Thunderbird is a band that should be on your radar; and with ‘Heavyweight’ […]
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Dare – Sacred Ground
I met Darren Wharton a few years ago when he toured Australia with Thin Lizzy and you couldn’t meet a nicer bloke, we chatted about music, about Lizzy and about the old days but I […]
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Crazy Lixx – Sound of the Live Minority
Crazy Lixx has been one of my favourite of the new breed of rock bands worshiping at the altar of 80’s rock over the last few years. Danny Rexon and co have put out some […]
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Helix – Rock It Science
Band’s re-record and re-release material all the time for any number of reasons, normally of course these days for Rock bands it’s original labels or subsequent rights owners unwilling to re-issue often long out […]
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Triggerman – Atomic Rock Number 79 (EP)
If you’ve not checked out Triggerman before and love swampy Stoner hard rock then you’ll kick yourself if you miss this from Derry’s finest. We love this EP… Opening track ‘The Drift’ builds up a […]
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Back in Blue – A Blues Tribute to AC/DC
There are of course those old timers that say AC/DC bastardised the Blues and made a career out of it and we say good on them, if it weren’t for bands like Krokus (who got […]
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Budderside – Budderside
I can see these guys polarising opinion but after a few spins I’m very much in the ‘yes’ camp especially when you get to the simpler fare like ‘X-Girlfriend’ which melds acoustic and sleazy aggression […]