The music world is a strange place these days with bands that aren’t bands, bands that never tour, bands that create albums living in different cities and hundreds of solo and side projects that will never […]
Opening with the rather odd ‘The Last Bell Ringing’ on which a sparse backing track accompanies a foreboding lyric, sung seemingly through clenched teeth by David Moran doing his best ‘Tom Waits’ and mouthing what […]
Three albums in Lionville has found a home with Frontiers Records and released what is probably their best album to date. Mixing Melodic Rock with AOR and a laconic take on Westcoast they draw on […]
Black Star Riders will be known to most as the band that was formed by the current day line-up of Thin Lizzy in December 2012 as a vehicle for new music. Since making that decision they have […]
Formed in Ohio as LOVE AND WAR in 1991 and despite some minor successes, the newly reformed/reborn APOCALYPTIC LOVERS missed out on the brass ring of mega musical success the first time around. Now geographically […]
A new name to some, Shallow Side already sounds like a band that many will be sitting up and taking notice of in the near future. IF, that is they can get the balance right. […]
Black Star Rider’s third album HEAVY FIRE already could be the album of 2017, building as it does on the sound they honed on their impressive debut and even more impressive follow-up. Indeed […]
BLACK STAR RIDERS ‘HEAVY FIRE’ INTERVIEW ONE – with DAMON JOHNSON The Black Star Riders was born not exactly out of the ashes of Thin Lizzy but certainly out of that great band just […]
If ever there was a band whose story was going to jump right off the page larger than life, especially with last year’s latest twist in the tale, it would have to be the Gunners. […]
The Rockpit got the exclusive on the new HEAVY FIRE album by BLACK STAR RIDERS with Ricky Warwick and Damon Johnson this week – look out for the interviews in the next few days […]
There’s a lot of albums out by ‘former lead singers of 80’s bands’ recently – the latest comes from ex-Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy. Indeed ‘SMASH’ hits the shelves just weeks after the latest talk of […]
NIGHTWISH is one of THE great ‘Live’ bands with a sound and production that fills the senses and compliments and augments the bands huge sound rather than overwhelming it like some big productions can. […]
Aaron Keylock of course will have been on many people’s radars since he started appearing in the music press even before Metal Hammer hailed him as “shredding like Gary Moore” at the tender age of […]
January 10, 2017 HighVolMusic has announced that the release date for the NEWMACHINE debut ‘Karma’ is set for March 17th, 2017. The highly anticipated debut was engineered and produced by Howard ‘The Doctor’ Lindeman (John […]
“ANN WILSON OF HEART” TOUR DATES KICK OFF MARCH 8 IN SEATTLE ANN WILSON has announced her 2017 20-date solo tour. The ANN WILSON OF HEART cross-country trek kicks off Tuesday, March 8 at the Moore Theatre […]
British metal legends Judas Priest announce the reissue of their 10th studio album, Turbo. The album has been remastered and will be released via Sony Music on February 3rd, 2017 on 3 CD (the original album and 2 bonus discs) as well […]
AVAILABLE ON 2CD, 2CD+DVD COMBO, LP, DVD, BLU-RAY, DIGITAL Michael Schenker – Lead Guitarist (6 years younger brother of Rudolf Schenker) 1970 – At age 15 – Michael records his first album with the Scorpions […]
Boutique Guitar Fest Drops Full Announce Annual boutique festival Mojo Burning has stepped up the proverbial notch big time, announcing ex-Queens of the Stone Age/Kyuss bass player Nick Oliveri as the headline act for the […]
Following the September 2016 of Sari Schorr & The Engine Room’s critically acclaimed debut album “A Force of Nature” featuring guest performances from Walter Trout and Oli Brown, Sari is pleased to announce her upcoming 2017 UK […]
KING KING, Britain’s favourite rock/blues band are back on road – again – they will be touring from mid-Jan till mid-May 2017. Tickets are now on sale from individual venues or The Gig Cartel. Hurry, […]
TICKETS GO ON SALE JANUARY 13 AT LIVENATION.COM FOREIGNER’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY ALBUM SET FOR RELEASE MAY 5th “I Want To Know What Love Is.” “Cold As Ice.” “Hot Blooded.” “Juke Box Hero.” FOREIGNER, the band […]
So, while Great White, who split from Jack back in 2010, managed to get their ‘debut Jackless’ album out (the rather decent ‘Elation’) back in 2012, we’ve not really heard a long-form reply from Jack till […]
There may well be a preponderance of bands with the word Black in their name but for every ‘Sabbath’; ‘Stone Cherry’ or ‘Crowes’ there are thousands of others you will never have heard of, […]
The first things that strike you about Brain Wilson’s aided autobiography are the subtitle ‘The genius behind the Beach Boys’ and the ‘voice’ that greets you from almost page one. It’s a voice that has […]
After the wonderful ‘Crash Course’ (2007) and ‘Raising the Stakes’ (2009) New Generation Superstars were one of the most vibrant and most likely to succeed Rock bands in the UK. Then for a while I […]
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