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There’s a certain ZZ Top meets Robert Palmer smooth groove to opener ‘My Imagination’ which treads the sonic ground between Foreigner and Bad Company that let’s you know right away that this is going to […]
The word ‘Legend’ is so overused these days, especially in music. Artists who seem to have been around for five minutes are routinely tagged with the word. In truth there are few legends and fewer […]
Portland sludge rockers Lord Dying return with their third album “Mysterium Tremendum” which sees the band aim for a conceptual idea both musically and lyrically while trying to evolve the sound in a different […]
Ron Keel has been around and making music almost as long as I’ve been listening to Rock – I first heard him in Steeler (1983) and really enjoyed Keel’s first two albums ‘Lay Down […]
Sometimes an album drops on your desk that catches you completely by surprise, makes you sit up straight & listen intently, before you realise you’ve been hooked by something pretty cool. Schreiner’s debut […]
Modern Rock for me is a hit and miss affair, it can ‘sound’ great but if you value your melody above all else sometimes it can feel a bit like eating a doughnut only to […]
There’s an Aussie connection to this new release with guitarist Joe Matera handling axe duties along with long time guitarist Hällström for Swedish band Rough Rockers. And for Classic Rock fans there’s also a guest […]
Melbourne band Orpheus Omega have been very busy lately. As of this writing, they are currently on tour supporting their new LP Wear Your Sins. To find out what it’s like, Oliver sat down […]
Swiss Hard Rock doesn’t start and end with Krokus and Gotthard. Before modern bands like Shakra and Lovebugs there were also rockers like Toad, Transit and Mud Slick and arguably finest of all- China(though […]
If you’re looking for some good time Rock and Roll that takes it all back to the concept of ‘having a good time’ then The Aviators mix of The Faces, The Stones, Georgia Satellites, Black […]
You always know what you are going to get with Danko Jones and you always know there’s no chance of disappointment. If you’ve followed Canada’s finest since their raring 2002 debut ‘Born a Lion’ then […]
For a band with 23 studio albums, 15 live albums and 18 ‘collections’ of songs in various forms already out there its hard to see why another UFO collection is warranted. Anniversaries though are always […]
Some bands you just instantly ‘get’ and when I first heard Blackbird Sons debut EP ‘Back in the Game’ at the start of the year I knew people had to hear it – featuring a […]
The intro track here ‘Dawn’ that cascades into the hard and heavy ‘Vanity’ of course is superfluous but there’s something likeable about these guys from the off, mixing Metal guitars with Hard Rock vocals and […]
After two crushingly good albums and a third in the can, all of a sudden singer Nathan James found himself looking for a new band with a tour and a new album to promote. Such […]
After the success of his last release, 2016’s ARIA Blues & Roots Album of the Year ‘Red Dirt – Red Heart’, you could be excused for thinking Russell Morris was going to continue to […]
Formed in Norway in 2010 and with one album ‘Shitkickers’ (2012) under their belt, Xelerate are back with a second full length that comes across as a mix of Melodic Metal and more classic […]
Modern Hard Rock with edge, energy and excess is the order of the day on Keri Kelli’s A New Revenge’s debut ‘Enemies and Lovers’ and if you can handle the roller-coaster ride then this is […]
One of my favourite EP releases of 2018 was ‘Shadows on the Wall’ from The Swamp Stompers, so I was interested to hear what guitarist & lead vocalist Corey Legge had planned for us […]
There’s a huge groove that kicks like a mule to opener ‘Black Diamonds’ that sounds so assured and so confident you immediately know that this isn’t Matt Mitchell’s first rodeo. Indeed if like me the […]
Those hoping for a Dokken record without ‘Don’ will be disappointed. There I’ve said it, this album does not sound like vintage Dokken. It does feature three members of the classic Dokken line-up though and […]
Whist Quiet Riot has had more members than most Rock bands out there – 27 to date (surpassed only by the likes of Santana, Iron Butterfly, Canned Heat and Whitesnake) it’s the only band in […]
Hailing from suburbs of New South Wales, Resurgence are a five piece band who have recently released their debut album titled Voices. I had never heard of this band before so I was looking […]
11 tracks and a minute and four seconds of ambient noise making up that dreaded first intro track cunningly titled ‘II – Intro’ make up Last In Line’s latest record for Frontiers. The band of […]
Well to be honest ‘The Dirt (Est. 1981 (Feat. Machine Gun Kelly)’ (to give the track its full title) the opening track from the latest rehash of Motley Crue’s ‘Greatest Hits’ aimed to cash in […]
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