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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 […]
It’s the kind of milestone only a handful of songwriters ever reach. Paul Kelly turns seventy, celebrates fifty years in the business and releases what stands as his thirtieth studio album, Seventy. Half a century […]
Where do you go after four classy albums of 80’s Hard Rock styled anthems and ballads, with arguably each new release surpassing the previous release? Well let’s just say for the moment that 5th time […]
Hearing 5 of the still to be mixed tracks from this album a year ago I knew that we would be in for something special. But whilst the wait may be over for me […]
It’s been a long time between solo albums for Jon Stevens and so the news of Jon hitting the studio last year was the best possible prompt for fans that something was in the pipeline. […]
Shoot Me Lover begins with an invitation, a rare drum groove fade-in that immediately gets to work. Then suddenly you’re not in the studio anymore but in a room full of bodies that know every […]
You hear it first in the keys, those hesitant notes like the start of a sermon or the spark of a movement. And then Mark Cassius’ voice — assured yet restless — cuts through. Get […]
Music at it’s best takes you to another place and works with your emotions. I personally love music that takes me to that happy place, music that moves me. At its best music can […]
“Mike Tramp, the legendary voice of White Lion, closes out his powerful trilogy with Songs of White Lion Vol. III — a heartfelt tribute to the band that defined his legacy. Revisiting ten classic tracks […]
This album is a nod to the past through gritty blues, dark humour and theatrical rock brilliance. Channelling vintage Alice Cooper energy with a modern sneer, it blends seductive menace, dark satire, and vintage horror […]
Rock songs, the good ones, are always more than the sum of their parts. They contain a ghost architecture: the echoes of other songs, other rooms, other lives. David Jones’ Between My Shadow and the […]
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