Former Bang Tango guitarist Mark Knight has just released a video titled ‘Don’t Kill The Cat: Behind The Scenes.’ The video contains never before seen live acoustic performances, as Mark takes you behind the scenes […]
March 1st saw Melbourne based Echo Del Tusker release the wonderful debut EP ‘Words to Live By’. In addition to the band’s first two singles, ‘Can’t Keep Your Man’ and ‘Fix Your Face’, the […]
TAKING IT BACK TO 2010 WHEN WE SPOKE TO JAY JAY AHEAD OF THE LEGENDARY ROCK N’ AMERICA FESTIVAL – THE ROCKPIT LOOKS BACK ON IT’S FIRST FIVE YEARS OF INTERVIEWS Jay Jay French is […]
I was a teenager in 1989 and they say what you love in your teenage years defines you, it’s certainly true of music. For me though 1989 was a magical year as I started to […]
Streaming is killing music, so why are you still streaming? Yes, I’m looking at you! Part one: the slide to streaming Not that long ago, certainly in most of our lifetimes, music was a product […]
Last night I attended a local showing of the brand new biopic Lords Of Chaos, a film based on the book of the same name about the early days of the Norwegian black metal […]
Who’d have thought that the band we championed all those years ago when The Rockpit began, and who played a blistering series of Australian dates back in 2011 when this interview took place, would […]
Let’s forget about Megadeth for a while and talk about Marty Friedman’s solo career. He’s been releasing solo albums for over thirty years now–three times his tenure with Mustaine & Company–and while Rust in […]
This, our first interview with Davy took place in May 2011 VAIN in my humble opinion is one of the best Hard Rock bands that the eighties ever saw, with songs you would kill for, […]
On September 19, 2018 after a performance on the finale of America’s Got Talent, KISS announced that they are embarking on one final tour called One Last Kiss: End of the World Tour. As […]
This interview was first posted on the Rockpit in 2011 The International Swingers hit Australia in December – let’s have a quick look at the band who promise to deliver a most memorable night out: […]
Back in 2011 one of our favourite bands Thunder who had been on hiatus since the Farewell Tour in 2009 announced two shows, we got in to talk to Danny as fast as we could… […]
This year I’m going to have a bitch each month about things that bother me and let’s start January with something close to the heart of every Rock fan – why your favorite bands aren’t […]
This year 2019, we’ll be digging back into The Rockpit archives as we celebrate our tenth Anniversary and looking at some of the great interviews, the best conversations and the ‘if onlys’ – this week […]
This is a hard one this year as The Rockpit truly is a global magazine these days covering not just both Coasts of Australia but also the U.S. and Europe. We can’t all get […]
2018 was another year of great metal releases with both the major acts and the underground sharing a piece of quality musical pie that metal fans ate up vigorously. We here at The Rockpit […]
There were a lot of great Blues albums out this year and a lot of them came from Down-under, but it was Joe Bonamassa who dominated our chart this year with not only the wonderful […]
What a great year for the music we all love! In what proved to be a fine vintage of a year there were many contenders for the top spot this time around but when […]
LIVE ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2018 1. The Darkness – Live at Hammersmith “If ever there was a band that deserved a big fat live album it’s The Darkness, as anyone who’s seen them live […]
AUSTRALIAN RELEASES OF THE YEAR 2018 No these albums aren’t ones that wouldn’t make our overall TOP 25 list – in fact most of them would! Here at the Rockpit we just like to remind […]
Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg hosted a one-night-only covers charity show on October 16, 2018 at Basement East in Nashville, TN. The event, presented by King Thrust Entertainment, benefitted “Buddies on the Beat,” Weinberg’s charity […]
On Saturday November 17th, 2018 a number of Australian music legends donated their time to perform at Band Together Farmers, in Parkes, NSW. The event raised much needed funds for rural mental health and […]
Arkansas hard rock act The Alive recently released their debut album “We Are Rock And Roll” through Eternal Sound Records and now they premiere the music video for the track “This Is Rock And […]
Welcome to the official Rockpit press page for the 2019 Download Festival Australia. Here you can keep up to date with all the latest press releases, interviews, sideshows and more as we help give the […]
The new single from Avenged Sevenfold titled ‘Mad Hatter’ for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has been released and this fan girl was eager to hear what Avenged Sevenfold had in stall for us […]
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