EP REVIEW: Blacktop Mojo – Static
Recorded at the same time as their last album ‘Under the Sun’ the four songs here shouldn’t be thought as the tracks that didn’t make the cut, but rather those that didn’t feel quite […]
Recorded at the same time as their last album ‘Under the Sun’ the four songs here shouldn’t be thought as the tracks that didn’t make the cut, but rather those that didn’t feel quite […]
Alison Solo is a British-Canadian Singer, Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She was born in London, England and emigrated to Ontario, Canada at the age of three. Alison self financed and recorded her first album, ‘Sakaita’, […]
Dokken’s last studio album featuring the original line up ‘Shadowlife’ came out in 1997, of course pretty much since that date we’ve been wanting something new from them. We’ve had some nibbles recently with […]
Some chiming, synths and a brooding build up introduce us via ‘Salvation’ to the new album by Dennis Stratton’s ‘Lionheart’ – what follows is a very melodic build to ‘Thine is the Kingdom’ a […]
“They coulda been huge if they’d been from America!” is an accusation that we leveled at a few bands from the UK and Europe back in the day when Stateside they were busily ‘polishing up’ […]
Mitch Perry has been working alongside some of the world’s most renowned musicians for over 25 years now. He has toured with the The Sweet, Michael Schenker Group, Lita Ford, David Lee Roth and […]
I don’t think I’ve been this impressed by a debut album since The Darkness ‘Permission To Land’, The Struts ‘Everybody Wants’ or even The Strokes ‘Is This It’. Three very different albums of course, […]
If you want an eclectic listen then add Chip & The Charge Ups to your listening list, with a release date smack bang in the middle of the pandemic their latest full length offering ‘Lightning […]
Jeremy Harry Harris, the voice of Perth Rock band ‘Stone Circle’ is back after a lengthy absence with an album that you can feel the love coming off of it. It’s 14 tracks of music […]
Norfolk’s Bad Touch’s highly anticipated fourth studio album “Kiss The Sky” was recorded, produced and mixed by Nick Brine at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wale and mastered by Pete Maher. If you’re […]
May 8th 2020 saw the release of one of my favourite albums of the year – Orange County’s Robert Jon & The Wreck’s ‘Last Light On The Highway’ – an album which is all […]
‘Red’ has to be Devilskin’s finest album to date and would surely have seen the band take another huge leap up that ladder with a European Tour ready to go just as coronairus put […]
Opening with the classic harmonica and steam train intro of ‘Train, Train’ originally recorded by Blackfoot you can’t go far wrong. Its a classic song already writ large in every Southern Rock fan’s memory […]
A new album by my favourite East Coast rockers The Erotics is always welcome, doubly so in times like these when music is one of our great comforts despite not being able to catch […]
13 Stars’ ‘Finest Ramshackle Jam’ is one of those albums that doesn’t come around too often, an album that you can play all the way through and just can’t put down. It’s also an album […]
If like me you love a dose of Southern Rock and rate Black Stone Cherry as one of the best bands around then cast your eyes towards Wales! Yes Wales, home of The Stereophonics […]
Detroit’s Artificial Angel have produced a nice Modern Hard Rock album here. Actually make that ‘very good’ and it’s one that sweetens the more you listen to it. They’ve also done something not too […]
It’s been a long time since we heard of Sven Gali, the Canadian rock band whose debut went gold in Canada before they changed their sound to chase the Grunge revolution and lost their […]
Devilskin, New Zealand’s finest Metal band are ten years old this year and to celebrate they have just released their best album yet. We may be locked down but it’s impossible to not feel the […]
Hollowed Sky released their eponymous debut back in 2018 and now they’re back with five more songs for devotees of their Alt-Rock sound but this time there’s more than the Alt-Rock musings of ‘Live’ and […]
Heavy Pettin’ was one of the very first Rock bands I saw live when they and Canada’s Helix supported Kiss at Stafford Bingley Hall many moons ago. I remember being so impressed I splurged […]
If you like your symphonic rock and metal and let’s face it who doesn’t on occasion even if you tend to inhabit other genres there’s something rather impressive about that style of music when it […]
Adelaide’s Sonic Divide have a Melodic Modern Rock sound that at first listen isn’t a million miles away from Nickelback… there I’ve said it… That of course though is only part of the equation […]
When this landed in the mail it gave me an odd felling of deja vu. I knew I knew the name but I must admit over the years my Blues credentials haven’t been kept as […]
Kings of Dust is an intriguing mix of musicians from two of Jake. E. Lee bands (Badlands and Red Dragon Cartel) as well as 2000’s glam rock heroes Crash Street Kids and late 80s […]
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