If you’ve followed my reviews over the years you’ll know this isn’t a casual fling. My relationship with Mike Trash’s music has been long, loud and gloriously sleazy fun. From the first time I locked […]
Somewhere deep in the beating heart of Michigan magic is created… again… After all there are singles… and then there are seismic events disguised as seven inches of spinning salvation. When Donnie Vie releases new […]
There’s something deliciously awkward about a “lost” concept album finally stepping into the light decades after its uncertain inception, and Trixie’s by Squeeze leans into that faux-naïve ambition with a grin. You get the feeling […]
Crashed Out moves like a tight cut of late-night feelings: fast, bright, and faintly dangerous. Across 10 tracks in 26 minutes, Perth’s Castle Hughes positions herself in the sweet spot between house sheen and confessional […]
It seems forever since 2023’s ‘Screamin’ at the Sky’ which eschewed ballads, rocked hard and delivered 12 blistering tracks, unless that is you bought the special digital limited edition which also included bonus track “Love […]
“The Vee Bees turned 25 last year. With 6 albums, and a bunch of singles 9,125 days later they still deliver the best 100% high octane full blown punk rock in the country. To […]
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 […]
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 […]
ROME’s The Tower arrives like a storm front you can see rolling in from miles away — ominous, deliberate, and carrying the weight of pend up potential fury in every low-hanging cloud. Jerome Reuter has […]
ROME’s The Hierophant is an album that doesn’t jump right in — it’s a platter that reveals itself, layer by layer, with patience and method. In true ROME fashion, Jerome Reuter sidesteps easy hooks or […]
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 […]
On Friday, November 1, 2024, The Cure released Songs of a Lost World. That same evening, they performed the entire record at London’s Troxy for 3,000 fans and over a million more through a free […]
Mark Rockpit – The Rockpit’s Best Albums of 2025 2025 was a strange year — not because it lacked quality, but because it delivered it in unexpected ways. There were only a handful of truly […]
Infinite Dreams documents the as-of-now complete history of Iron Maiden from 1975-2025. Fifty years is a lot of time and this is a lot of book. It measures 9.9 by 12.9 inches and is 1.4 […]
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 […]
High expectations are a dangerous drug. Take too much and you hallucinate greatness where none exists; take too little and you miss the moment entirely. Searching For You In The Darkness arrives with a buzz […]
Whilst the rest of the world has to wait until 2026, Christmas really has arrived early for devotees of Australian heavy metal, because When Night Falls feels less like a new album and more like […]
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 […]
If Like A Man was the spark and Hurt was the burn, P.T.A is the wildfire. Envy Marshall’s third single of 2025 cements her as one of rock’s fiercest new architects — an artist who […]
Last full length outing ‘Grand Explosivos’ had me musing that: “Some bands look back at their early work and feel that they have to move on, others just get fixated on endlessly repeating themselves. Here you […]
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