Christian-rock has always been a bit of a sticking point for me – not because it questions my own beliefs but because on the whole the messages that are being conveyed often outweigh the […]
The northern suburbs of Perth have a new live music venue after the official launch of The Baltimore, which was headlined by WA giants Gyroscope with strong support from Blindspot, Filth Wizard & Crimea. […]
Back in February, before the global pandemic disrupted the whole of the music industry, I took a flight from Perth to Melbourne to catch one of my favourite UK bands, who were playing a […]
Whenever I’ve thought of Blues music, my mind always immediately takes me to places like Chicago, Memphis & Detroit. Greece would never have even registered to me as a place where high-quality Blues rock […]
As with most bands around the world, COVID-19 has dealt a pretty tough hand for them all to play and Western Australia’s Eskimo Joe are no exception. March saw the alt-rock three-piece primed and […]
Former INXS bass player & co-founder Garry ‘Gary’ Beers is back with a new project and it’s one that has us pretty excited here at The Rockpit. AshenMoon has smatterings of genres & vibes […]
Unless we dare take risks, how can we see beyond our fears? Met with positive response worldwide after a series of single releases, Christian-rock artist Jodi Essex continues to speak boldly with the same […]
Perth’s local live music scene is about to explode back to life. With restrictions starting to ease and venues getting the chance to reopen, albeit with limited numbers & certain social distancing rules firmly […]
Music has an amazing power to bring back so many wonderful memories. When I was growing up, I have early recollections of my Dad playing rock n’ roll tunes on long car journeys and […]
When The Rockpit last spoke to Andrew Farriss back in August 2019 he was excitedly telling us about his debut single ‘Come Midnight’ and subsequent works that we would be expecting to hear, as […]
If you like your rock n’ roll stripped back to basics and raw & rowdy, then look no further than the debut self-titled EP from Melbourne’s Rockin’ Volts. The four-piece band have put together […]
Melbourne three-piece Grasshole have released their follow up to their debut album ‘Fuzz of Flavour’ with their second full length release ‘Wildfire’. With heavy stoner-punk influences infused into their 90’s sound, Grasshole found themselves […]
Every now and again a line-up of bands catches your eye, a line-up filled with such quality that you know you’ll be kicking yourself if you don’t make it there, as you’ll be hearing […]
With the release of their eighteen studio album ‘Legal at Last’, things certainly aren’t slowing up anytime soon for Canadian heavy metal pioneers ANVIL. With the album receiving glowing reviews across the globe, the […]
Rose Tattoo are back and they don’t look like they are going anywhere just yet. When The Rockpit last spoke to Angry Anderson back in 2018, he told us of a five-year plan that […]
It’s been thirteen years since Rose Tattoo last released a studio album, so it seems fitting that with such a star-studded line-up now performing alongside Angry Anderson, this incarnation of the band should get […]
Peter Shoulder is a name that is familiar to a good few who have followed & enjoyed his career over the years, which has seen him perform & record with his previous bands Winterville, […]
A consummate guitarist, singer and songwriter, Kellindo Parker aka Kellindo easily sounds like an artist you should already know. He recently released his new alt-rock single ‘Sugar’, a guitar riff-based song with a trap […]
Pete Shoulder is fast cementing himself as one of the UK’s finest vocalists, having spent time with Winterville, Scott Gorham’s 21 Guns and also working with Thunder’s Luke Morley on their wonderful project The […]
Canadian heavy metal pioneers Anvil are back with their eighteenth studio album, with ‘Legal at Last’ set for release on Friday 14 February through AFM Records. Steve ‘Lips’ Kudlow & Robb Reiner have once […]
With the inaugural Sugarloaf Rock Festival fast approaching, Perth had the pleasure of Wolfmother performing a couple of smaller ‘sideshows’ before headed down south to the Margaret River Region, the first being at one […]
Perth’s Electric State had a night to remember as they hosted the launch of their latest single ‘We’re Just Blood’ at Amplifier Capitol on Saturday 18 January. An eclectic collection of rock & metal […]
Ezra Tide enticed a bumper crowd to Lucy’s Love Shack to help celebrate the launch of their second single ‘Take Me Home’ with strong support from Foxton Kings, Roobs and The Washing Line Economy […]
Californian Bluesman Kirk Fletcher has slowly being making his way up into the elite Blues guitarist list for some time now. His fourth studio album ‘Hold On’, which was released back in 2018, has […]
2020 started with a bang at The Civic as the organisers who brought us the inaugural & hugely successful 2019 Perth Rocks Festival were back with a smaller but equally mouth-watering event dubbed Perth […]
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