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INTERVIEW: Ron Pope
Ron Pope is in Australia, and for the first time he has a band with him. Not only that he has also just released what must be one of the albums of his career […]
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INTERVIEW: Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani is a name everyone who loves rock music will recognise: the quintessential guitar hero whose shaved head and sunglasses are instantly recognisable. Musically he’s part mythical monster part master musician, a man […]
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INTERVIEW: Pekka Ansio Heino – Brother Firetribe
Brother Firetribe has just released what is sure to be one of the albums of 2014. ‘Diamond in the Firepit’ takes all that we loved from the band’s first two releases and hones it […]
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INTERVIEW: Daniel Winter-Bates – Bury Tomorrow
Bury Tomorrow has been called the best Metalcore band in the UK at the moment, and with their new album ‘Runes’ just released it’s hard to disbute where they sit on the tree. We […]
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INTERVIEW: Gary Numan
Gary Numan has been called the “Godfather of all Electronic Music” and over the years has inspired a huge range of artists from Trent Reznor to Prince to The Prodigy to Afrika Bambaataa to […]
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INTERVIEW: Chris Boyd – One Thousand Years
One Thousand Years is a band that plays the kind of music I want to hear: timeless, blues infused rock that makes a connection with an audience. It’s important music by a little ol’ […]
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INTERVIEW: Chris Green – Rubicon Cross
Anyone who was impressed by Rubicon Cross’ debut EP back in 2011 will probably have been eagerly anticipating the new full-length release – due to hit on May 19th. Collecting the four songs from […]
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INTERVIEW: Simone Simons – Epica
Lavish orchestration, as you might imagine, introduces us to Epica’s latest work ‘The Quantum Enigma’. It’s a huge album especially for a band that prides itself on constantly moving forward, and it may well […]
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INTERVIEW: Christian Hede Madsen – Pet The Preacher
You may not have heard of PET THE PREACHER yet, but you should do soon. If you love a riff you can hang your entire wardrobe off, then their new album “The Cave & […]
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INTERVIEW: Linnea Olson – The Oath
Don’t know who The Oath are? Read on to find out more and why you need to check them out. Welcome to The Oath… Mark: Hi, thanks for taking the time to speak […]
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INTERVIEW: Warren Haynes – Gov’t Mule
This year Gov’t Mule celebrates 20 years of ‘kicking ass’ and they’re coming Down-Under to kick some serious ass here too! Hot on the back of last year’s sensational Shout! album The Mule head […]
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INTERVIEW: Ann Boelyn – Hellion
Back in 1983 I bought the first Hellion EP. Listening to the ‘To Hellion and Back’ Anthology today the band has lost none of its power – and new music is on the way. […]
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INTERVIEW: Danny Vaughn – Tyketto
Tyketto was the band that should have been huge with songs most bands would die for and a vocalist with one of the best voices in the business. It was all a case of […]
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INTERVIEW: Andrea Ferro – Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil is busy in the midst of their current US Tour, then it’s on to Mexico and South America to mark the first outing for material from the excellent new album ‘Broken Crown […]
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INTERVIEW: Matteo Digioia – Destrage
Destrage have two albums behind them, but number three should open up their crazy world to all of us. Metal never sounded as original, crazy and chaotic as this! Mark talks to Matteo Digioia […]
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INTERVIEW: Bob Catley – Magnum
Magnum is a band that has always had a legion of loyal fans in the UK and growing numbers in Europe. Their new album ‘Escape from the Shadow Garden’ is so good it could […]
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INTERVIEW: Kelly Keagy – Night Ranger
Sadly to some outside the US Night Ranger has always been ‘just’ the band that did ‘Sister Christian’ Kelly Keagy’s monster ballad from 1984. Now that is where you’ve all been missing out because […]
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INTERVIEW: Klaus Eichstadt – Ugly Kid Joe
UGLY KID JOE burned brightly for a time back in the nineties and at the height of their fame they were topping charts around the world, the guys did particularly well downunder and now […]
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INTERVIEW: Beth Hart
BETH HART has a truly remarkable voice and has played with some of the great rock guitarists like Jeff Beck, Slash and Joe Bonamassa. She’s visiting us in April for BLUESFEST, some solo shows […]
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INTERVIEW: Peter ‘Maz’ Maslen – Boom Crash Opera
Re-born Aussie music legends, Boom Crash Opera have announced the release of a new greatest hits album, The Best Things featuring two brand new songs, as well as a four album box set, Rattle […]
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INTERVIEW: Pete Cooper – The Porkers
We talk to main man Pete Cooper about the band’s resurfacing for Soundwave 2014 and what might lie ahead for Australian Ska’s finest. Mark: Thank you for taking the time to talk to […]
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INTERVIEW: Katon W. De Pena – Hirax
Hirax’s Katon W. De Pena is one of the great survivors of the 80’s Thrash Metal scene and his band Hirax is producing the music of their lives at the moment. One of the […]
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INTERVIEW: Jocke Berg – Hardcore Superstar
Hardcore Superstar tour Australia in June 2018, ten years after their last visit to these shores when they hit just Melbourne and Sydney (I was lucky enough to be at that Sydney Show). It […]
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INTERVIEW: Killian Gavin – Boy And Bear
Rock music comes in all shapes and forms and last year’s Harlequin Dream showed a more soft rock side to Australia’s Boy and Bear, and it’s proving to be a sound that the world […]
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INTERVIEW: Jake Burns – Stiff Little Fingers
Stuff Little Fingers was always head and shoulders above every other Punk band for me, and these days it’s hard to imagine bands like Green Day, Bad Religion or Therapy existing sounding like they […]