Tempt’s Zach and Harrison talk to The Rockpit about the stunning debut album ‘RUNAWAY’ and how 19 year olds can be making some of the best melodic hard rock out there this year. Many […]
Kentucky rockers Black Stone Cherry have concluded their first ever tour to Australia supporting glam parody rockers Steel Panther which ended up being a great tour as we found out ourselves (review here). We caught […]
If you think Aussie Rock and the bands that had most influence outside our fine borders – three names come to mind immediatley – AC/DC, Rose Tattoo and The Angels. Sadly we’ve lost two […]
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: STEEL PANTHER’S STIXX ZADINIA REVEALS HE HAS NO INTERESTING STORIES ABOUT EITHER STEEL OR PANTHERS AND THAT IS OFFICIAL… (DID WE MENTION THAT THEY TOUR AUSTRALIA IN JUNE?) STEEL PANTHER continue their […]
JOHN LAWHON TALKS TO THE ROCKPIT ABOUT A LOVE OF MOTOWN BASSLINES, CACTUS AND TOM HAMILTON INTERRPUTING A CALL TO HIS WIFE TO CHAT TO THE BAND IN THE RAIN AT THEIR FIRST UK […]
BLACK STONE CHERRY are on their way to Australia for the first time ever, and not only that they have just released what we think is their finest album to date – KENTUCKY. We […]
Every country has their own Bluesmen and every country these days it seems have their artists who take the Blues back to the acoustic guitar where it was conceived. A multi award winner in his […]
First Signal’s debut release was one of my picks of the year for 2010 and so it’s been way too long between drinks in one respect, on the other hand (I love mixed metaphors) when […]
After a debut album that scorched the turntable, Scorpion Child is back. The question is will the ‘difficult second album’ curse strike? Of course not… Opener ‘She Sings I Kill’ hits nice and hard and […]
After listening to Tyler’s first singles from this his debut solo album and as a long-time fan of Aerosmith I wasn’t as much shocked as appalled as he proceeded to, as I saw it, dismantle […]
For a band so young these guys have old melodic rock heads on their shoulders and a sound that although at times hints at something more modern, has its heart and soul clearly in the […]
It’s not long since we saw The Rivals Sons Downunder as support to Black Sabbath, and those that got to the shows early sure thought it was a nice contrast to see the Zeppelinesque Sons […]
The live album these days has a strange place in music, is it redundant? Does anyone care? Or does it now sit as a mere memento of a show or a tour? In truth it […]
“Dan Reed Network’s brand new record ‘Fight Another Day’ marks the anticipated return of one of the most infectious and gifted bands to come out in the Melodic Rock World in the second part of […]
For fans of Danger Danger the reality is that Frontiers may well have released their last album in 2009 with ‘Revolve’. If that is the case it’s a fitting epitaph for a great band but […]
Modern Sleaze Metal from a bunch of guys who look like Motley Crue meets Black Veil Brides. Now if you were cynical that would sound like a cliché you’d seen a thousand times and you’d […]
For years it had been rumored that Femme Fatale’s unreleased second album ‘Lady in Waiting’ would soon see a release. Years after those first rumors here we have it – but not released as originally […]
If you love classy Modern Melodic Hard Rock replete with huge harmonies and big hooks, searing guitars and soaring vocals then it will be hard to go past VEGA – one of the new bands […]
Back in the day I was a huge Angel fan. For a band that had managed to grow from Pomp Rock’s shining light to eventually capture a sound as gloriously melodic as they had on […]
It’s been a while since we last heard from Grand Rezerva when they released their 2013 debut album ’48 Laws’ and after a few line-up changes and a couple of singles dropping in 2015 they’re […]
A panoramic narrative history that will give readers a new understanding of the Rolling Stones, viewed through the impassioned and opinionated lens of the Vanity Fair contributor-and co-creator of HBO’s Vinyl-who was along for the […]
Did anyone really know Lemmy? That I guess is the question you have to ask… I met him twice, both briefly, and both times as he signed autographs for me and as mass of other […]
Best known as the bass player from Trixter, P.J Farley sure hasn’t been one to sit around in between Trixter stints, content with reflecting on that bands success during the early 90’s. With the band […]
There’s a Hendrixy guitar opening to the faux Soul of opener ‘Theme to Voodoo Love Machine’s’ brief tenure as an introduction that doesn’t exactly endear a Rock listener to Osaka Punch immediately, and despite the […]
There’s a drive and an urgency to the opening track of the new Sunstorm album ‘Don’t Walk Away From A Goodbye’ that immediately hits the spot and makes you believe that thus will be another […]
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