Blackrain are in my opinion one of the best hard rock bands around, They have a catalog filled with great records and when you have the bar set that high there’s inevitably high expectations that […]
There’s several great rock bands in Las Vegas, Among that collective is one band who’s album I’ve been most looking forward to, The debut from The Far Worst. They have released a few singles ahead of […]
With all the popularity of EDM in Las Vegas over the last decade or so it would be easy for people to be unaware of the great bands Sin City has to offer, Among the […]
On first listen you might think Creatures is an old band, Between their sound and their image they look and sound like a late 70’s/early 80’s hard rock and metal band, Musically falling somewhere between […]
Hell In The Club are in my personal opinion one of the best and most consistently great bands in the hard rock scene today, Their last album F.U.B.A.R was a fantastic record and following that […]
Madhouse are a very musically consistent band, All of their records to date have been great. Plead The 5th is their fourth full length album which follows their absolutely jaw dropping previous record Down N’ Dirty, That […]
Shiraz Lane is a bird of a different feather in the modern world of hard rock in that you can’t fully classify them as a straight up hard rock band, There’s a pop element to […]
Sister are a band wholly unique among their contemporaries in the Swedish sleaze metal scene, I’d even say they are a band unique in the rock scene worldwide period. Over the course of the last four […]
Black and Death Metal are genres that have no middle ground for me, I either like a band a lot or I don’t in this musical style. Cradle Of Filth are a band I like […]
One of the many things I appreciate about the blues scene is how much more open older artists are to collaborating with artists younger than them, From what I can tell based on the interviews […]
Blues in my opinion is a very pure form of music, At it’s best it’s not music you just listen to, It’s music you feel. It was born out of struggle and because everyone knows […]
The final show at Counts Vamp’d was a blow out, for myself and many others who attended it this was more than just a venue closing, It was the end of an era. Equal parts […]
Swan Hellion is the singer and main musical architect of France’s iconic sleaze band Blackrain, Hot on the heels of the bands announcement of their new guitarist we caught up with him to discuss the […]
Ghost is an anomaly. A wealth of talented bands have come out of Sweden in the last quarter century, Bands that if given the proper platform and push would be HUGE and yet over here […]
Rocket Queen just released their first full length album One Last Night, An album that is in my view one of 2025’s best releases so far in a first quarter of the year that has […]
Music in America in the early 2000’s was by and large truly awful in my opinion. Nu Metal was all the rage, Boy bands and pop princesses were everywhere, there were so few good rock […]
As a life long music junkie I think I’ve heard more bands in ten years than the average music consumer will listen to in their lifetime. Bold statement, I know. But the fact is that […]
Sometimes as a fan of a band you get attached to certain line ups and when line ups change it can be a bit hard to get used to, Thundermother is (if you take out […]
There’s a widespread and misguided belief that hard rock died in the 90’s, A lie that couldn’t be further from the truth. Sure, there isn’t really a single city that is the epicenter of the […]
One of the many wonders of the digital era is that it opens up the playing field for all bands to be heard and if you, Like me, Have an insatiable need for new musical […]
If you were to go down the list of the defining bands of the 80’s sunset strip scene and assess the quality of their releases over the decades, The bands who actually lasted decades and […]
When you consider that to the casual listener 80’s style hard rock (however you want to categorize that) was largely born here in the states it’s a bit sad that it’s become kind of a […]
Hard rock bands recording acoustic albums aren’t really anything new, In fact they were fairly common during the 90’s. A lot of your favorite rock bands actually write a lot of their well known songs […]
Kissin’ Dynamite are a rare case where at this point in their career youth meets experience and produces spectacular results, as a result of being signed to a record deal while they were still in […]
The return of John Corabi to The Dead Daisies after a couple of albums with Glenn Hughes was always going to be interesting! The Dead Daisies historically don’t consider themselves to be a supergroup, Preferring […]
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