The man with the sticks in hand, Stix Zadinia checks in with The Rockpit to talk all about Steel Panther’s most delectable album so far ‘Heavy Metal Rules’ which hits the streets on 27th September. […]
Matt Pearce is a founder member of UK rockers Voodoo Six and this May he’s stepped out and done something a little different with his first solo project with his band The Mutiny – putting […]
Blues as we all know is an old man’s game, always has been and always will be. Somebody just better let Christone “Kingfish” Ingram know that as this 20 year old from Clarksdale, MS seems […]
Steel Panther the band the critics either love or hate but simply can’t ignore are back with another odyssey into the twilight world of spandex augmented Metal with their new offering ‘Heavy Metal Rules.’ […]
Ten albums in why is this a new name to me? Alas with my misspent youth firmly fixed on the Rock scene, it’s taking me years to catch up on all my essential Blues. The […]
If you crave the days when Rock was fun and a good time was had by all then this is your soundtrack. ‘Zokusho’ is a Japanese word meaning ‘sequel’ or ‘the next chapter’, and therefore […]
Persistence pays off you know, I had so much trouble downloading this EP to review I almost gave up but thanks to the persistence of Matthias I didn’t and I am so glad I didn’t […]
After a number of great EP’s The New Savages are back with their take on The Delta Blues on their first full length release. ‘Seventh Son’ opens with a title track with a biblical context […]
When you read the words ‘Sweet Oblivion (feat Geoff Tate)’ for most fans the attraction is that second bit, ‘feat Geoff Tate,’ after all like many I’m sure I have no idea who or what […]
As Slade the mighty Rockers of the 70’s pulled the pin some years back I never thought I’d get the chance to review them but ‘Ere We R’ as they might say. Formed in […]
Sorry about this late arrival, but Crobot’s ‘Motherbrain’ is one of those albums that I’ve been enjoying so much over the last few weeks that I’ve not actually got round to writing a review until […]
You have to say that 6 years is long wait for a follow up to the wonderful ‘The Way Life Goes,’ Tom Keifer’s debut solo album and an album which itself was first touted […]
Tonight a packed Astor theatre saw Jon Stevens take us on a musical journey through what is only just part of his legacy, but arguably the most conspicuous – the music of INXS and […]
Taking a year off when you’ve spent years building up a global following is a risky move these days in the music biz where fans seem to have attention spans that are ever decreasing. Thankfully […]
Its a brave experiment even for three supremely talented musicians to hatch a plan to jam together in a studio with no preconceived notions of what will eventuate except in setting a goal to create […]
KXM is one of those bands that only comes around once in a while, a super-group comprised of three incredibly talented musicians that just gel. Their third album ‘Circle of Dolls’ is just around the […]
For me when I look back at all the 80’s style Rock Albums that came out post-Grunge in the 1990’s a handful stand out immediately. These are records that you feel are the prisoners […]
For those that loved Gothenburg’s Sister Sin who produced six cracking albums between 2002 and their split in 2015 a new album by vocalist Liv Jagrell under the moniker Liv Sin is bound to cause […]
The one minute and seventeen seconds of gentle acoustic guitar that opens this second release from Perth’s own Sister Switchblade reminds me of the intro to Icon’s mighty ‘Hungry for Love’ a deep cut of […]
The name Michael Sweet might be eternally entwined with the band Stryper but over recent years he’s been involved in a number of great projects – from fronting legends Boston for five years and two […]
Sometimes albums are just released out of time, think of all the great records being made today that would have ridden high in the charts in years gone by. Roxy Blue’s 1992 debut – […]
Germany has produced some great Hard Rock bands over the years but at the moment there is none better than The New Roses, a band whose mix of Hard and Southern Rock with a pinch […]
Few bands out there today have a really great ‘live’ album behind them, one that you could stand up against some of the iconic live releases of the past. Of course these days a great […]
We had time when we spoke to Josh Todd earlier this year to slip in a few ‘Off the record’ questions – Regrets, guilty pleasures and great advice? It’s all here… Mark: If you could […]
There are just ten songs on the latest from the Black Star Riders ‘Another State of Grace’, now I don’t know about you but I’d take ten great songs over an overstuffed and overblown offering […]
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