Reviews of albums, EP’s, DVD’s, music books and more
With Hans Ziller continuing Bonfire without singer Claus Lessmann and doing a pretty fine job of it so far the question was always, with him supposedly not wanting to tour, what Claus would get […]
If you love the lineage of bands that took their jumping off point as being bluesy, groove-laden hard rock then you’ll love this. From Free, Cream and Bad Company, through bands like Thunder, Cry of […]
Sometimes you deliberately don’t read the press for a review and other times you just lose it in the pile of ‘stuff’ that tends to accumulate around you. I dare say the release will find […]
A year apart divides “Cauterize” and the follow up “Dust” which was always going to be the case as we found out last year reviewing the former. While it’s not a double album per say, […]
After taking some time off after hitting it hard since their inception in the early 2000’s, DevilDriver return with a brand new album in 2016 with “Trust No None”. Complete with a new lineup, Dez […]
Hatebreed return with a powerful album titled “The Concrete Confessional”, a fiercely aggressive album that touches on political and social issues in today’s world. The trademark sound is all there of course but while […]
High pitched vocals, like a cross between Klaus Meine and Sebastian Bach and a sound that can only remind you of Sunset Strip in the heart of the days of Hair Metal, Shiraz Lane is […]
Preceded by the single ‘Lulu’ Dust Bowl Jokies (awful name for a great band) follow up their seriously good debut album with a second-up that is even better. In truth the new album is as […]
Dynazty over the years have featured highly in our ‘albums of the year’ lists and now 5 albums in we have ‘Titanic Mess’ I’ll say this from the off it is probably my least favourite […]
Lo-fi groove, repeated refrain, a washed out sixties groove and faux crowd noise before horns kick in and we eventually drift into folky, then rock opera, then trippy territories before a Queen-like phoenix-rising guitar soaring […]
Australia has always done Blues well, and often taken its own slant on the genre that began in the fertile soil of the Mississippi Delta. “For Perth guitarist, songwriter and bandleader Matty Wall, it’s all about […]
Laden heavy with big chunky riffs and with the axle kept from the ground with some liquored, smoky vocals ‘A Rebel Few’ have a great starting point. The fact that they have the songs and […]
So Motley is over, DJ has left Guns ‘N’ Roses and the band has finally had the time to really get their teeth into writing not just one but two new albums, sounds like the […]
I’ve always loved Cheap Trick and ‘live’ they have few peers but in the studio oddly I don’t think I’ve ever really loved one of their albums completely. Equally Cheap Trick has never put out […]
What is it about Perth Rock bands and EP’s – there’s just something about the format! The best bands always leave you wanting so much more and the worst leave you thinking that could have […]
It’s been 24 years since Candlebox hit the ground running with their self-titled debut, which sold shedloads of copies riding the tail end of the grunge wave. Not that Candlebox were necessarily really grunge (though […]
When you think of melodic rock bands from SWEDEN, the names , MIA KLOSE, the brilliant LOUD `N` NASTY,THE MURDER OF MY SWEET, NUBIAN ROSE, ELECTRIC BOYS and of course EUROPE come to mind, […]
Bruno Ravel certainly like to keep busy. Apart from his long standing DANGER DANGER career, he has also worked with the likes of Y&T, TNT,HAREM SCAREM & STARZ, now he turns up with THE […]
After not quite having a Eurovision adventure with track ‘Pipped It, Popped It’ Tigertailz is back with what is their first new album in ten years, and with new vocalist Rob Wylde on vocals they […]
With a vintage organ intro and a shouted rant from one of Ford’s ex’s – Chris Holmes, Lita Ford’s new album follows hot on the heel of her tell-all book and attempts to capture […]
Ace Frehley is back sooner than we might expect after what was surely one of the highpoints of his career in the release of ‘Space Invader’ (2014) – an album that climbed to number 9 […]
Back in April I caught up with POA main-man Lesli Sanders in the US just after he and his band had done double duty supporting Pretty Boy Floyd and playing with them. I must admit […]
From the eerie opening stanza of the instrumental title track that paints the first strokes of the album ‘Back to Zero’ and the vocal opening of ‘Shine’, which rolls on with its sweeping groove, elevated […]
The first thing that struck me about this album was that it came to me with a press release completely in German, not unusual for a German band I suppose but to send it out […]
This was a voyage of discovery for me and it ended up like meeting an old acquaintance and getting on so well you wished they’d been a friend for years. First of all let me […]
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