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Echo Del Tusker – Words To Live By (EP)
March 1st saw Melbourne based Echo Del Tusker release the wonderful debut EP ‘Words to Live By’. In addition to the band’s first two singles, ‘Can’t Keep Your Man’ and ‘Fix Your Face’, the […]
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VINTAGE INTERVIEW: Jay Jay French – Twisted Sister 2010
TAKING IT BACK TO 2010 WHEN WE SPOKE TO JAY JAY AHEAD OF THE LEGENDARY ROCK N’ AMERICA FESTIVAL – THE ROCKPIT LOOKS BACK ON IT’S FIRST FIVE YEARS OF INTERVIEWS Jay Jay French is […]
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The Best Hard Rock albums of 1989 – 30 years on!
I was a teenager in 1989 and they say what you love in your teenage years defines you, it’s certainly true of music. For me though 1989 was a magical year as I started to […]
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THE ROCKPIT RANTS: Streaming is killing music, so why are you still streaming? Part #1
Streaming is killing music, so why are you still streaming? Yes, I’m looking at you! Part one: the slide to streaming Not that long ago, certainly in most of our lifetimes, music was a product […]
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FILM REVIEW: Lords Of Chaos
Last night I attended a local showing of the brand new biopic Lords Of Chaos, a film based on the book of the same name about the early days of the Norwegian black metal […]
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VINTAGE INTERVIEW: Grammy winner Matt Pike of High on Fire
Who’d have thought that the band we championed all those years ago when The Rockpit began, and who played a blistering series of Australian dates back in 2011 when this interview took place, would […]
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Rockpit Retrospective: Marty Friedman
Let’s forget about Megadeth for a while and talk about Marty Friedman’s solo career. He’s been releasing solo albums for over thirty years now–three times his tenure with Mustaine & Company–and while Rust in […]
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10 YEARS OF THE ROCKPIT – VINTAGE INTERVIEW: Davy Vain – Vain (2011)
This, our first interview with Davy took place in May 2011 VAIN in my humble opinion is one of the best Hard Rock bands that the eighties ever saw, with songs you would kill for, […]
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“A World Without Heroes”: KISS and the End of the Road
On September 19, 2018 after a performance on the finale of America’s Got Talent, KISS announced that they are embarking on one final tour called One Last Kiss: End of the World Tour. As […]
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10 YEARS OF THE ROCKPIT – VINTAGE INTERVIEW: Gary Twinn – The International Swingers (2011)
This interview was first posted on the Rockpit in 2011 The International Swingers hit Australia in December – let’s have a quick look at the band who promise to deliver a most memorable night out: […]
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10 YEARS OF THE ROCKPIT – VINTAGE INTERVIEW: Danny Bowes – Thunder
Back in 2011 one of our favourite bands Thunder who had been on hiatus since the Farewell Tour in 2009 announced two shows, we got in to talk to Danny as fast as we could… […]
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THE ROCKPIT RANTS: Who’s not coming to Perth? Why live music is dying in the West…
This year I’m going to have a bitch each month about things that bother me and let’s start January with something close to the heart of every Rock fan – why your favorite bands aren’t […]
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10 YEARS OF THE ROCKPIT – VINTAGE INTERVIEW: Frankie Banali – Quiet Riot (2011)
This year 2019, we’ll be digging back into The Rockpit archives as we celebrate our tenth Anniversary and looking at some of the great interviews, the best conversations and the ‘if onlys’ – this week […]
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The Rockpit’s top live gigs of 2018
This is a hard one this year as The Rockpit truly is a global magazine these days covering not just both Coasts of Australia but also the U.S. and Europe. We can’t all get […]
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The Rockpit’s Top Metal Albums of 2018
2018 was another year of great metal releases with both the major acts and the underground sharing a piece of quality musical pie that metal fans ate up vigorously. We here at The Rockpit […]
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THE ROCKPIT’S BLUES ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2018
There were a lot of great Blues albums out this year and a lot of them came from Down-under, but it was Joe Bonamassa who dominated our chart this year with not only the wonderful […]
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THE ROCKPIT’S HARD ROCK ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2018
What a great year for the music we all love! In what proved to be a fine vintage of a year there were many contenders for the top spot this time around but when […]
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THE ROCKPIT’S LIVE ALBUMS, RE-RELEASES and EP’s of the year 2018
LIVE ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2018 1. The Darkness – Live at Hammersmith “If ever there was a band that deserved a big fat live album it’s The Darkness, as anyone who’s seen them live […]
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THE ROCKPIT’S AUSTRALIAN ALBUM RELEASES OF THE YEAR 2018
AUSTRALIAN RELEASES OF THE YEAR 2018 No these albums aren’t ones that wouldn’t make our overall TOP 25 list – in fact most of them would! Here at the Rockpit we just like to remind […]
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Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg presents “Buddies On The Beat” in Nashville
Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg hosted a one-night-only covers charity show on October 16, 2018 at Basement East in Nashville, TN. The event, presented by King Thrust Entertainment, benefitted “Buddies on the Beat,” Weinberg’s charity […]
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Hoodoo Gurus & more rock out at Band Together Farmers Concert
On Saturday November 17th, 2018 a number of Australian music legends donated their time to perform at Band Together Farmers, in Parkes, NSW. The event raised much needed funds for rural mental health and […]
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VIDEO PREMIERE: The Alive – This Is Rock And Roll
Arkansas hard rock act The Alive recently released their debut album “We Are Rock And Roll” through Eternal Sound Records and now they premiere the music video for the track “This Is Rock And […]
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Download Festival Australia 2019
Welcome to the official Rockpit press page for the 2019 Download Festival Australia. Here you can keep up to date with all the latest press releases, interviews, sideshows and more as we help give the […]
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Avenged Sevenfold unleash Mad Hatter for the gamers
The new single from Avenged Sevenfold titled ‘Mad Hatter’ for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has been released and this fan girl was eager to hear what Avenged Sevenfold had in stall for us […]
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VIDEO PREMIERE: Dirty Moonshine – Shake the Roof
Dripping with sweat, and smelling of booze, Dirty Moonshine is everything your mother told you to avoid. Rumbling and thundering from the Gauteng highveld, Dirty Moonshine sets the South African music scene ablaze with their […]