Reviews of albums, EP’s, DVD’s, music books and more
I was a big, big fan of Shark Island back in the day – man that first major label record is a classic and the song ‘Paris Calling’ was all of my mixtapes! But […]
In just over a week Michael Schenker’s new album will be upon us. Schenker of course is a legend, and whether you saw him back in the 80’s or rather more recently, then you’ll […]
12 track Album released on 6th May 2022, Boombox is dirty, gritty, old-school rock and roll which I love. I was keen to sample their wears as I had never really had a chance to […]
Back in the late eighties as a Hard Rock fan Dan Reed Network and Nelson were my two guilty pleasures, so much so that over the nineties I managed to collect pretty much every […]
Back in the day I was a huge Shotgun Messiah fan, and man that 1989 debut ‘Welcome to Bop City’ was in a class of its own! It came as a bit of a […]
Perth based Progressive Metal / Rock Band Icreatedamonster delivered their EP – Blisstonia recently and I was pretty keen to get my teeth into the EP. I had seen a sneak peak of their music […]
Thunder fans haven’t had to wait long between drinks as hot on the heels of 2021 highly-acclaimed release ‘All the Right Noises’, the band have followed up with their first ever studio double album […]
In comparison to the melodic rock bands that I’m familiar with The Big Deal are a different brew, for one thing they have two female vocalists: Ana Nikolic and Nevena Brankovic who also plays keyboards […]
Perth-based band Cross Eyed Lover have released their debut album “Blonde Zombie” in March 2022, an eleven-track assortment of musical delights. Let me state this straight off the bat. I am a huge fan […]
After the news about The Wildhearts disbanding recently, the good news is that there is Ginger album just on the horizon. Well when I say new, it’s actually an expanded version of his 2019 […]
‘Make It Count’ is here almost a year after Ronnie Atkin’s last solo album ‘One Shot’. Recorded with the same band of musicians and same producer Chris Laney. It’s bittersweet of course to […]
I think it’s pretty fair to say that the biggest era of industrial/Industrial rock was the mid to late 1990’s. At the height of the genre’s popularity one of the genre’s top most popular bands […]
Even before the needle hits the groove just by looking at the album cover you can’t help thinking Australia’s own ‘Airborne’ and with Airborne pretty quiet since releasing ‘Boneshaker’ in late 2019 there’s always […]
The Hellacopters were originally created in 1994 as a side project by singer/ guitarist Nicke Andersson who played drums for Entombed and guitarist Dregen of Backyard Babies, The Hellacopters went on to become a […]
Three albums in Carbon Black has really hit their stride and with mixing by the inimitable Kevin Shirley and a guest spot by Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens there ‘s more than a few bells and whistles […]
It doesn’t happen very often but some bands come along who really move the needle in rock n roll, they create a dividing line where you can separate the established bands of the genre and […]
Hailing from Rennes, France power trio ‘Janis Madison’ has spent the pandemic keeping themselves busy. With a 100% D.I.Y. attitude they crowdfunded an 8 track EP (two of the tracks War and ‘Rape’ are […]
The combination of Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram and producer Tom Hambridge worked wonderfully well last time around on the debut so why change want ain’t broke? They team up again on ‘662’ and whilst there’s […]
Hell In The Club are one of the most exciting bands of the modern hard rock movement, These guys started out as a side project formed by members of power metal bands Elvenking and Secret […]
With the majority of compositions here written by the team of drummer John Hahn and guitarist/producer Will Kimbrough who supply 7 of the twelve tracks there’s a lovely thread of storytelling running through this record […]
Joe Bonamassa called Chris Cain his favourite Blues player on the scene today “with the voice of B.B. King and the chops of Albert King” – it’s a huge statement but one that has you […]
A large part of what got me reacquainted with the Blues when this website began wasn’t the old timers out there still going strong or the young guns blazing away, it was these guys […]
Twenty years after their last release ‘Illusion’ a new record from Germany’s Jester’s Tears lands at Rockpit HQ a year and a half after its release and with an apology from Australia Post that […]
This month marks one full year since the debut album from Chez Kane stormed the scene, An album that ended up in the top of many lists of the best releases from last year which […]
Perth’s Electric State have been playing live shows over the past few years to great responses, appearing in the wonderfully pre-pandemic days of 2019 before we all found out a lot about what is […]
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