Sometimes you deliberately don’t read the press for a review and other times you just lose it in the pile of ‘stuff’ that tends to accumulate around you. I dare say the release will find […]
Frontiers Music will release Dan Reed Network’s brand new record “Fight Another Day” on June 3rd, 2016. The new album marks the anticipated return of one of the most infectious and gifted bands to […]
Ragdoll release their debut album “Back To Zero” in June after a string of critically acclaimed EP’s – The Rockpit spoke to Leon Todd about the creation process, how it feels to finally get […]
QUEENSRYCHE is on their way back to Australia for the first time with new vocalist Todd La Torre. Michael tells us all about the new lease of life for the band, his favourite albums, […]
We talk to Lee all about the new ‘Fire and Gasoline’ album and why she chose 2016 to make a comeback. It’s all here – from creating new music and cool new videos, to […]
Guitarist Bruno Ravel talks all about his new band The Defiants who have their debut album out as we speak, we also talk about Danger Danger, creating new music, playing live, influences & the […]
We catch up with Perth guitarist Jaime Page to discuss her debut solo album, a history in music and her recent transgeder revelations and how that journey influenced her work. If you only […]
Reformed ’70s rock legends TASTE will launch the lead single and video, I Am God to their forthcoming album, Life On Earth, at Melbourne’s Ding Dong Lounge on Good Friday, March 25. This exclusive […]
High pitched vocals, like a cross between Klaus Meine and Sebastian Bach and a sound that can only remind you of Sunset Strip in the heart of the days of Hair Metal, Shiraz Lane is […]
Preceded by the single ‘Lulu’ Dust Bowl Jokies (awful name for a great band) follow up their seriously good debut album with a second-up that is even better. In truth the new album is as […]
Dynazty over the years have featured highly in our ‘albums of the year’ lists and now 5 albums in we have ‘Titanic Mess’ I’ll say this from the off it is probably my least favourite […]
Lo-fi groove, repeated refrain, a washed out sixties groove and faux crowd noise before horns kick in and we eventually drift into folky, then rock opera, then trippy territories before a Queen-like phoenix-rising guitar soaring […]
Australia has always done Blues well, and often taken its own slant on the genre that began in the fertile soil of the Mississippi Delta. “For Perth guitarist, songwriter and bandleader Matty Wall, it’s all about […]
Laden heavy with big chunky riffs and with the axle kept from the ground with some liquored, smoky vocals ‘A Rebel Few’ have a great starting point. The fact that they have the songs and […]
No one needs to be reminded what a groundbreaking band The Runaways were in so may ways and it was Cherie Currie holding centre stage flanked by the likes of Joan Jett and Lita […]
So Motley is over, DJ has left Guns ‘N’ Roses and the band has finally had the time to really get their teeth into writing not just one but two new albums, sounds like the […]
I’ve always loved Cheap Trick and ‘live’ they have few peers but in the studio oddly I don’t think I’ve ever really loved one of their albums completely. Equally Cheap Trick has never put out […]
What is it about Perth Rock bands and EP’s – there’s just something about the format! The best bands always leave you wanting so much more and the worst leave you thinking that could have […]
It’s been 24 years since Candlebox hit the ground running with their self-titled debut, which sold shedloads of copies riding the tail end of the grunge wave. Not that Candlebox were necessarily really grunge (though […]
After not quite having a Eurovision adventure with track ‘Pipped It, Popped It’ Tigertailz is back with what is their first new album in ten years, and with new vocalist Rob Wylde on vocals they […]
With a vintage organ intro and a shouted rant from one of Ford’s ex’s – Chris Holmes, Lita Ford’s new album follows hot on the heel of her tell-all book and attempts to capture […]
Ace Frehley is back sooner than we might expect after what was surely one of the highpoints of his career in the release of ‘Space Invader’ (2014) – an album that climbed to number 9 […]
Back in April I caught up with POA main-man Lesli Sanders in the US just after he and his band had done double duty supporting Pretty Boy Floyd and playing with them. I must admit […]
Chris Gibbs is one of Perth’s most respected musicians, playing in a variety of bands over the years he now produces material for two bands: ‘Graphic Fiction Heroes’ and ‘Chris Gibbs and the Transmission’ […]
Shotgun Messiah was surely one of the coolest names for a Rock band ever, and not only did they have the music and the looks they delivered live too. But after just one album […]
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