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“Let’s set our piano on fire!” might be a sentence we haven’t heard since the good old rock’n’roll days of the 70s. However, more than any other song from EPICA‘s upcoming audiovisual release, ‘Kingdom […]
British Progressive Rock Luminaries JETHRO TULL have announced details for the group’s first studio album of new material in over 18 years! Originally making headlines in March of this year, the band’s newest offering, titled […]
Metalville Records announces January 28th, 2022 as the international release date for The Quill‘s Live, New, Borrowed, Blue, a personal selection of unreleased song treasures from their long career. Digging through old boxes, you find stuff you’ve […]
ARIA TOP 5 / NO.1 VINYL ALBUM, 30TH ANNIVERSARY RE-RECORDED EDITION OF ‘ALL FOR ONE’ OUT NOW Today The Screaming Jets have announced a very select run of dates, on their C’MON SUMMER tour of January and […]
Two of today’s most dynamic live bands, Mammoth WVH and Dirty Honey, are joining forces to bring their high-octane rock’n’roll out on a 30-date, co-headline North American tour. The “Young Guns” tour begins on […]
In what seems like an eternal rollercoaster of close calls and postponements, Silverback Touring are pleased to re-announce the DEVILSKIN “RED” Tour with a new set of dates. The hard-hitting Kiwi band released their […]
THE CAT EMPIRE – THE FINAL SHOW OF THE ORIGINAL LINE-UP AFTER 20 YEARS with CARÃVANA SUN and TIJUANA CARTEL In the first of a series of announcements featuring artists playing Thursday 14th April, Bluesfest would like […]
DAY ONE – OASIS: With ‘Covers & Rarities’ being released this month, we wanted to take a week to celebrate the fantastic musicians that we’ve covered! This week we’ll be releasing each cover from […]
The year of the corona-pandemic, when the music world was forced into a standstill, five old friends put in motion an old idea that had been lingering – and what eventually was to become […]
WITH LATEST MEMOIR, THE FIRST 21: HOW I BECAME NIKKI SIXX – ALSO FEATURED ON AMAZON, USA TODAY’S BEST SELLERS LIST SIXX:A.M. HITS ALBUM FEATURING BOOK COMPANION SINGLE – “THE FIRST 21” ALSO AVAILABLE NOW […]
LABEL WILL RELEASE A RE-ISSUE SERIES BEGINNING WITH THE DELUXE EDITION OF ‘REDEMPTION’ Little Caesar are best remembered for their version of the soul music song “Chain of Fools, a 1989 hit single from […]
AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER AT THIS LOCATION – NEW SINGLE “CARPE DIEM (SEIZE THE DAY)” OUT NOW COVER ART BY PAUL R. GREGORY Life hath no fury like a legend in full roar … and on February 4th, […]
December 24th, 1914: Late On Christmas Eve, British Expeditionary Force heard German troops in the trenches opposite them singing Christmas carols and saw lanterns and small fir trees along their trenches. Messages began to be […]
In March 2021, Swedish heavy metal commando ENFORCER released its second live album, Live By Fire II, which included a truly triumphant show captured in Mexico City, 2019. But ENFORCER have not been revelling […]
CRASHDÏET are one of the biggest names in the glam metal/sleaze rock scene and the band recently signed to global rock powerhouse label Golden Robot Records. CRASHDÏET are back in the studio working on their 6th studio album, […]
SPECIAL 10” BLACK VINYL SINGLE SET FOR DECEMBER 3 RELEASE – AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER OZZY OSBOURNE and his longtime friend and colleague Lemmy Kilmister of MOTÖRHEAD are reunited one last time in the new animated clip […]
NO.1 VINYL ALBUM! – FIRST TIME BAND IN TOP 5 IN 26 YEARS – LISTEN HERE ‘ALL FOR ONE’ NATIONAL TOUR CONFIRMED FOR 2022 The Screaming Jets’ 30 Year Anniversary Edition of their classic debut […]
New Album ‘Dear Monsters’ Out Today! Photo credit – (Credit: Jim Louvau) Platinum-selling, chart-topping rock band BAD WOLVES have released their highly-anticipated third album DEAR MONSTERS via Better Noise Music, marking the band’s first full-length release with new singer DL. The project […]
There’s a buzz in the air. To celebrate their 30th anniversary as a band, Wollongong’s legendary Tumbleweed are releasing a limited, deluxe singles box set that includes all the singles recorded with the classic line up […]
Sydney Alt-Rockers Bad Moon Born release their monstrous new single ‘Waves (Of The Wild)’. ‘Waves’ unleashes a storm of brisk, sharp modern metal juxtaposed with graceful melody and infectious vocal hooks that warrants repeat […]
Sign Up To Grow Your Lemmy Mo’ www.movember.com/lemmy With a career spanning five decades, the ear shattering, rock n’roll juggernaut of Motörhead was fronted by the inimitable Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister until he sadly passed […]
OZZY X DOGTOWN LIMITED EDITION SKATEBOARD DECKS AND CLOTHING COLLAB ON SALE THIS FRIDAY (OCTOBER 29) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter OZZY OSBOURNE will celebrate the 40th anniversary of his 1981 […]
“Love ‘em all! Go Orange Goblin go!” Philip H. Anselmo (Down, Superjoint Ritual, Ex-Pantera) Orange Goblin have, over the last 25 years, more than earned the right to be considered among the greats of British […]
Thy Art Is Murder and Gatecreeper added to support!LAMB OF GOD and KREATOR regret to confirm that they have had to postpone their intended ‘State Of Unrest’ tour. The two metal legends’ co-headline tour will now take […]
A band that may be new on the scene, but with members who have been putting in the work for years, Satin White has released the video for their debut single “I Feel Alive.” […]
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