When you first hear Cherry Grind it rekindles in you all those feelings and memories about all that ever first attracted you to rock music in the first place. There’s just something so primal and […]
To date, Van Halen have been notoriously selective about releasing official live material. In 1987, they released Live Without a Net, a video of a 1986 show featuring mostly material written with then-lead singer […]
Initial impressions can be wrong; for instance there’s an almost ‘Def Leppard meets the modern day’ feeling about ‘Blood Red Saints’ on the basis of opening track ‘Kickin’ Up Dust’. Equally if you loved Bon […]
Silent Knight has long been Perth Australia’s big players on the Power Metal scene, armed with songs to take on the world; you feel that it’s just a matter of time despite the remoteness of […]
With a great dirty groove, fine sense of a hook, nice big fat guitars and a singer reminiscent of Michael Monroe of Hanoi Rocks fame, Dirtbag Republic can’t go wrong. If opener ‘Can You Feel […]
After hearing the single ‘Re-inventing the Future’ I was suddenly excited again by the Tate/Queensryche saga. Whilst as far as recordings had gone to date the Geoff Tate vs Queensryche split had been somewhat underwhelming […]
Michael Monroe may just have released his best album as a solo artist, and as a long-time fan who has been there since the early days of the eighties that is a huge call. After […]
‘Bring it on back’ the lead single from Buckcherry’s 7th studio release ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ is typical of the band – full of piss and vinegar, a loud obnoxious slab of in your face Rock […]
Joe Satriani releases his 15th studio album on 24th July ahead of a November UK Tour and to be frank it’s a revelation: extroverted, ambitious and absolutely unmissable. If you’ve listened to Satriani over recent […]
A lot of melodic rock these days goes under the radar and sometimes you just find a gem amongst the seemingly endless flow of unannounced product. In the ten songs here you get a real […]
One of the very best Rock debut albums in a long, long time came in 2013 from The Temperance Movement and so it’s no surprise that January’s release of ‘The White Bear’ is one of […]
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