Tex Perkins will return to the stage with a brand-new show playing the songs of Johnny Cash. There are few artists who can translate the work of Johnny Cash and bring it to the modern […]
With a forward by David Fricke, Editor at Rolling Stone (a magazine who have never really been keen on Hard Rock) we get to shine a light on a band with a huge legacy. […]
MEGALOMANIUM, Eclipse’s 10th album hits the streets on September 1, 2023 and it’s well worth the wait. As the press release says it’s an album “riddled with the full DNA of the band, a […]
Imagine a band so wound up and so Rock and Roll they just explode into your ears from the off and never let up! Danko Jones plays high octane rock and roll, superbly crafted, […]
At the tail end of the 80’s it wasn’t all Arena Rock and Hair Metal (two labels I never liked at all) there were still innovators out there so for every Power Ballad and […]
Over the years The Rockpit has had the chance to catch up with Nuno from Extreme a number of times, but this year with the release of ‘Six’ and the announcement of an Australian Tour […]
‘Tommy’ – Iconic, dark, and an album that pushed boundaries and tackled topics we shouldn’t talk about. The Who created a monster in a masterpiece and the 1969 album left its mark on rock ‘n’ […]
Back in the 90’s we weren’t so conscious about labelling everything with a distinct genre. Music you see was still free in those days, and Rock and Roll let’s face it has always been […]
“Are you ready to rock? Do you want a good time? Do you want to get high? If the answer to any of those questions is yes (and it really should be), then the […]
Eclipse is one of the greatest Rock bands of the 21st Century. Album number ten is magnificent… Things kick off with the infectious ‘The Hardest Part Is Losing You’ a Pop rocker you all […]
For a few brief years in the early 80’s Canada’s Coney Hatch were a band that you wanted to see. With their first three albums ‘Coney Hatch’ (1982), Outa Hand (1983) and Friction (1985) they […]
I love this album. There’s a real joy about it and a nice melodic 80’s thrust to the opener ‘One More Time’ with lyrics spiked with song references – it’s a great way to […]
‘When Life Treats You Funky’ the opening track on what is 8th Electric Boys album is all fans will need to hear to know that things are sounding very good indeed. There’s an immediacy […]
The law of the internet pretty much says that tall poppies are fair game, and sons of famous fathers are always in the cross-hairs simple because of their parentage. Some of course will be waiting […]
I must admit that at the time with so much music around and no real profile outside of the U.S. that King Kobra pretty much passed me by early on even though they boasted […]
There’s a simplicity to opener ‘Never Look Back’ that draws you in immediately, but “Oh no” I hear you say “not another Melodic Hard Rock band from Sweden?” Well yes but this is actually […]
August sees Silverback Touring bringing back the best Nirvana Tribute act on the plant to perform Nirvana’s iconic album, ‘In Utero’, in full, as part of its 30th-anniversary celebrations. The band, which has been hailed […]
It has taken well over a decade, 9 albums, multiple fan petitions and even a support group for Australian fans upset at not having a tour, to finally get one of the greatest live bands […]
For their first time in Australia, the band that formed as an idea between friends from several well-known Rock/Metal bands (Soilwork, Arch Enemy, Mean Streak) almost a decade ago and have been dropping jaws ever […]
Sometimes you hear an album that you know is going to lead to so much more. And album that blurs the conventions of the present and reaches into the soul of the great music of […]
Some albums in your youth just stand out and no matter how hard a band tries to recapture that essential energy of years gone by it tends to always be nostalgia that always wins […]
You couldn’t meet nicer people than Janet and Justin so when you hit ‘play’ and realise they have also released one of the very best albums of the year in ‘No Strings’ you couldn’t […]
Sometimes you have to sit with an album for a while to properly appreciate it rather than blast off a review and only capture part of the magic. 4 albums in, you see, Midnite City […]
The hardest thing in the world for a band to do is recapture the passion and the thrill of their past glories, or as Ken Mary sees it ‘win the fight against nostalgia’. Only […]
With Thunder on hiatus what could be better than a solo album from the man behind the songs – guitarist and songwriter Luke Morley? If you are expecting a Thunder-lite release or something akin to […]
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