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Raw power, swagger and passion are non negotiable ingredients for Dellacoma Rio and all 3 factor heavily in both his music and live performance. Armed with a powerhouse 5-piece band and a swag of riff […]
The iconic, memory-laden musical experience that is Blues at Bridgetown will celebrate its 30th year in 2022 from Friday-Sunday, November 11-13. As with most things, the pandemic has served up some challenges in recent years, but in 2022 […]
Phil Jamieson – frontman/singer/songwriter/guitarist for Grinspoon – has released his first ever solo album Somebody Else. The album is this week’s Feature Album on Double J. The release of Somebody Else comes on the back […]
Female-led rock band UPON WINGS have shared the new single and music video for “Last Love”. The soaring, guitar-heavy anthem was mixed and mastered by Skidd Mills, best known for working with bands like Saving […]
2022 marks the 30th anniversary of Diesel’s first solo record, Hepfidelity. Featuring the hit singles ‘Tip Of My Tongue’, ‘Man Alive’ and more, the record was a huge success on release – it reached #1 on […]
On the heels of their recently-announced seventh studio album Pawns & Kings, acclaimed rockers Alter Bridge have released the debut single – the metal-leaning track “Silver Tongue.” Known for the signature dual-guitar attack that is backed by a driving […]
Legendary hard rockers MSG reveal another music video for the song ‘Fighter’, which can be found as a bonus track on the CD version of the current album UNIVERSAL, released at the end of May this year. Michael Schenker comments: “Hi […]
On October 28th, acclaimed singer/songwriter Bryan Adams will release, So Happy It Hurts (Super Deluxe) – a 2CD set featuring his latest studio album. The package includes a second disc featuring 12 re-recorded classic hits […]
The Dead Daisies cast a spell with their third single ‘Hypnotize Yourself’ from their upcoming new album ‘Radiance’. After captivating audiences on their EU Summer Tour playing to tens of thousands of people across the European […]
On the day they begin the WA leg of their I’m Sorry Sir, That Riff’s Been Taken tour, The Hard-Ons have released a new single and video from the album. The “Needles & Pins” 7″ […]
Perth rising metal stars INFINITE EXILE kicked off 2022 with a brand new song & video ‘War Is Here’ (watch here: https://youtu.be/84ck6CeqQHA) earlier in the year which received a lot of attention including coverage from […]
Russell Morris revisits his alter-ego Jack Chrome, in this follow up to the acclaimed album he penned with Rick Springfield in 2021, ‘Jack Chrome & The Darkness Waltz’. ‘The Dreams of Jack Chrome’ continues as […]
RAW, a new album from the original line up of ZZ Top — Billy F Gibbons, Frank Beard and Dusty Hill — created in a singular circumstance is out now. The album, released through Shelter Records/BMG […]
“The Swedish band Ghost reliably hits the three Ps hard: proggy, punky and poppy. Its fifth album, IMPERA, packs the ambitious sprawl of ’70s rock epics into (relatively) bite-size packages with amusingly confounding story lines. […]
Glaswegian rockers GUN are back with their latest release from the forthcoming album, ‘The Calton Songs’ and finally it’s the turn of ‘Word Up’ TODAY, 28 July. So tell all the boys and girls, Tell your brother, your sister, And mama too… This massive […]
A Celebration Of Rock’n’Roll that, as Ginger explains it, is in “the spirit of the music that we all collectively love, from childhood to the present day. Little Feat, The Allman Brothers, Wilco, The Band, Creedence, […]
On August 19, 2022, Swedish heavy rock queens THUNDERMOTHER will release their hotly anticipated, new album, Black And Gold (AFM Records). Read our review of the album HERE. New video for title track “Black and […]
Multi-award-winning blues guitarist Sunjay is pleased to announce his long awaited and highly anticipated new studio album, Black & Blues Revisited (the follow up to 2015’s Black & Blues) is released by Mighty Tight Records on Friday 14th October 2022, and is […]
BMG are delighted to announce a brand new CD release from Smith/Kotzen, ‘Better Days…And Nights’ comprising five previously unreleased live tracks, plus for the first time ever on CD, the four studio tracks featured on […]
Multi-platinum UK rock icons The Darkness will be returning to Australia & New Zealand this October, playing shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth, Auckland & Wellington. Tickets are selling incredibly fast and most shows are set […]
Iconic rock legends George Thorogood & The Destroyers will deliver a gut-bustin’, guitar-wailin’, face-meltin’, fiery-tempoed, rock & roll show to Fremantle. Celebrating 45 years of rock on the Good To Be Bad Australian Tour, the […]
Bernie Marsden — “one of the best guitarists and songwriters in the country” (as Loudersound put it) — premieres and presents a special video for his new single ‘Na Na Na’ from his latest Inspirations album: ‘TRIOS’ (released […]
THE BLACK CROWES have announced two new headline shows on their 2022 Shake Your Money Maker Australian tour. With the first Sydney show now totally sold out, they have added a further Enmore Theatre date for […]
2021 saw UK artist Sam Fender catapult to rockstar status with the release of his massive album Seventeen Going Under which received a BRIT Award, a UK #1 album and triple j Feature Album, while also playing to sold-out crowds in arenas across the UK, […]
Legendary, heavy metal band Stryper have released their latest single “See No Evil, Hear No Evil” off their upcoming album set for release later this year. This single release follows the successful release of first single “Rise To The Call,” […]
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