Interviews with some of your favorite as well as up and coming artists and musicians!
While it’s been a frustrating year for many it has also been productive for some. Chocolate Starfish have been one of the bands that have found themselves scrabbling through more lockdowns than most here […]
Lockdown has produced some great albums you could argue we may never have heard and Diesel’s latest ‘Alone With Blues’ is one of them. Alone in his home studio on a break before the ‘Sunset […]
After the release of “Kuarahy” concurred with the blast of the worldwide pandemic and all the consequences it has generated, White Stones which features Opeth bass player Martín Mendez are ready to launch their […]
Live music is back in the States and Chip Z’Nuff is one of the first out on the road. With the soon to be released ‘Never Enuff’ Box Set just about to drop there’s […]
Back in the early 90’s one of the best live bands you’d see in the pubs and clubs of Australia was Nick Barker and the Reptiles. They toured relentlessly and always put on a memorable […]
Light The Torch are back with a new album titled “You Will Be the Death of Me”, releasing on June 25 via Nuclear Blast. It’s another welcome return for the band who have seemingly […]
Since their formation in 2004, British thrash metallers Evile have been turning heads and taking names, delivering four pure thrash offerings blended with an uncompromising death metal assault. Their fifth studio album, titled “Hell […]
When you think of iconic Australian singer-songwriters the name Richard Clapton immediately springs to mind. Over the years he’s left us with some wonderful songs, many of which have a special part in the hearts […]
Eleven years ago in the early days of the Rockpit I was sent an EP by a new band from Scunthorpe in the UK called Skarlett Riot. It was a record which was on […]
There’s a new Helloween album out in June titled simply ‘Helloween’ and it’s huge! We caught up with Markus Grosskopf to talk all about it and how the plans for something really special just grew […]
Sometimes and album just ‘hits the spot’ and ‘Sonic Healing’ by Todd Michael Hall is one of those albums this year – a huge album of Classic Rock influenced songs that comes as a […]
Robin McAuley is one of Rock’s great voices, coming to prominence with his band Grand Prix he went on to sing with Michael Schenker and lately he’s provided the voice for the wonderful Black […]
It sure is a long time we’ve been locked down. No live bands is getting us all down, but on the bright side there are some great albums coming out of this enforced shutdown, and […]
Supergroups come in all shapes, sizes and genres. Bands like Black Country Communion, Chickenfoot & The Dead Daises have been more recent successes in the rock n’ roll world but Australia is about to […]
Put June 25th in the diary if you haven’t already pre-ordered (I’ve got a signed orange vinyl on the way myself) because Buckcherry have come flying out of isolation with a stunning new record […]
Industrial metal legends Fear Factory finally return with their 10th studio album “Aggression Continuum”, out June 18th which almost didn’t see the light of day. The last 6 years since “Genexus” came out has […]
The Angels of course need no introduction, considered Downunder to be Australian Rock royalty, over the years they’ve treated us to some great albums and timeless classics. But 2020 was a hard year for The […]
One of the very first bands that got me started on my own Rock and Roll adventure was Z.Z. Top and over the years that ‘Little Ol’ Band from Texas’ have brought their own […]
Australian rock wouldn’t be the same without Newcastle’s Screaming Jets and this year we get to revisit the album where it all began for them back in 1991 with their debut ‘All For One’. […]
The Quill is one of my favourite Swedish bands and has been for years. It’s criminal to think that after 25 years and on the eve of the release of their 11th album ‘Earthrise’ there […]
For those that were there at Rocklahoma back in the day when it all began there was a constant, a band that initially sneaked onto the bill and the came back every year to become […]
Snake Bite Whisky’s own website states that the band embodies “Full throttled, no compromise, in yer face sleaze soaked rock n’ roll. A much needed injection of nitro glycerine, “fuck you” heavy rock with attitude […]
Dropkick Murphys are preparing to release their 10th full-length studio album, Turn Up That Dial, April 30 via band-owned Born & Bred Records. Volume cranked, heads held high, smiles wide, eyes on the prize, […]
Gilby Clarke has played in both Guns N’ Roses and The MC5 – who else can claim membership in two of the most life-altering and influential rock ’n’ roll outfits to ever exist on the planet? None of that […]
The press release around ‘No Tell Hotel’ reads: “Black Diamonds are the unmistakable proof that Rock and Roll is neither dusty nor old fashioned. Since the band was founded in 2004, the four guys from […]
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