Ace is back ….. 10,000 Volts is Ace Frehley’s sixth studio effort in 15 years, his fourth of original material. Frehley has undoubtedly left his stamp on rock music for the last five decades. Now in […]
Rome, they say, wasn’t built in a day and though that may be true it’s also true that the new Babylon A.D. album bearing that name, might just be the comeback that 80’s Rock fans […]
THE EDITOR’S LIST – BEST HARD ROCK ALBUMS OF 2023 THE BEST MUSIC OF THE YEAR 2023 – MARK’s TOP 20 As usual every year we promote Australian music by creating two lists – one […]
THE TEAM’S COMBINED LIST – THE ROCKPIT’S BEST HARD ROCK ALBUMS OF 2023 2023 was a strange old year for hard and heavy Rock and Roll music, unlike 2022, for us at least there were […]
2022 has been a great year for Rock Music. Emerging out of the pandemic there were a wealth of great releases in 2022 especially in the Hard Rock arena. Looking back on the year it […]
To preface: I was first introduced to the world of hard rock in 1992, the cultural impact of grunge hadn’t hit yet and I was hearing albums that were relatively new then but are now […]
The second year of lockdown for us here in Australia 2021 was a hard year. Not having any international visitors to our shores also made it a year when local artists had their big chance […]
THE ROCKPIT AND KRUNCH ENTERTAINMEMNT NEED YOU TO HELP ROCK NORTH OF THE RIVER! SUPPORTING LOCAL LIVE MUSIC SINCE 2009 We’ve been bringing Rock to the North of the River venue The Baltimore (the old […]
At the peak of the 2020 pandemic, remote learning has ushered in, and face-to-face classes became a thing of the past. For many students, adjusting to this new mode of learning was a daunting […]
A unique quote on Pinterest reads this: “Music crosses all bridges, borders, and cultures to connect us all.” Out of all the truths in the world, this quote is one of them. It’s incredible […]
Over the decades ZZ Top have become an American institution. From the early days of developing their signature blues-infused sound, to their cultural reemergence in the 1980s propelled by the rise of MTV, to […]
What happens when you cross a gifted graphic designer with a renowned local event promoter? You end up with Perth’s hottest new venue dedicated to those who dabble in the darker, alternative side of […]
In a dark club in Beijing, the roof has been blanketed in a haze of smoke. The band playing on stage, long-haired, sporting dirty denim, wearing vintage Led Zeppelin or Hendrix shirts, play down-tuned, […]
2020 has certainly been an interesting year with the pandemic affecting touring worldwide. However one positive consequence of that has been the creativity and focus on new music which is always great to see […]
2020 has been a hard year for bands and fans alike and this year we’ve put together a Top Ten based on the votes of all our regular reviewers. So here it is the […]
Now 2020 of course has been a horrible year for almost everyone involved in the music business, and a huge strain on people like me who can’t do without their live music. All it […]
To date, Van Halen have been notoriously selective about releasing official live material. In 1987, they released Live Without a Net, a video of a 1986 show featuring mostly material written with then-lead singer […]
Which year was best for Hard Rock in the late 80’s golden age? Was it 86? ’87? or 88? I must admit for me at least the best two years for the type of music […]
Following the success of their acclaimed 2018 album ‘Invincible’, which spent an incredible ten consecutive weeks in the Top 30 Official German Rock and Metal Charts and was voted Sleaze’s Nation’s # 2 album […]
With all the craziness of the last few months that has put the world in a spin, one of the drawbacks of the pandemic crisis is the shutdown of the music industry, particularly the […]
On May 4, 1998, Queensrÿche released their most ambitious record, Operation: Mindcrime, a concept album detailing Nikki’s involvement with a revolutionary organization led by Dr. X who betrays Nikki. By the end of the […]
The global coronavirus crisis has resulted in canceled tours, artists getting crammed into long customs queues, and in the case of Mongolian rock band The Hu, being stranded in another country because the borders […]
Melodic Rock Fest 2020 promises to turn the clock back to the final two decades of the Millenium, rolling out the best bands and artists of that period and unleashing them back into […]
The first ever Wacken Metal Battle in Australia has been launched with cities spread across the country taking turns to see bands have a crack at that coveted spot on the world’s biggest metal […]
Why I Still Play Records Modern music can be accessed in a way unlike ever before. But while I enjoy putting on Spotify with my phone and I’ll still rock out my (apparently outdated) […]
The Rockpit saw 171 gigs in 2019 from Australia, the US and the UK in various genres crossing from hard rock, metal, folk, blues and anything with a guitar strapped to the musicians on […]
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