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In April of 2018 guitarist Mark Anderson and vocalist Mike Meadows began writing for a new album. Leaving behind all past influences and concentrating on creating something unique yet true to the Ditchwater sound. […]
Revolution Saints have returned with their third album and when you listen to opening track ‘When The Heartache is Gone’ you’d be forgiven for thinking that Revolution Saints had turned into Journey so strong […]
It’s hard to sit here in the same year as an album is released and contemplate if it will be one of the greats, but seven years in the making and many gigs and many […]
2016’s ‘Bovonic Empire’ was a great release from Buffalo Crows, but turning this one over in the hands from the artwork you’d be pushed to realise that ‘Picnic at Buffalo Rock’ is by that […]
Get ready for a seventeen song time-capsule. Texan Rockers Randee Lee, Razar King and Gary Priest have unearthed some old recordings from 40 years ago that are finally seeing the light of day on […]
Every band these days needs to grab your attention fast and Kings County’s rather short bio is bith unusual and intriguing… “Originally from Long Island, NY, Orlando, FL-based KINGS COUNTY creates hard-hitting rock n’ roll […]
Now there’s Stoner Rock and there’s Stoner Rock and Orange County’s Albatross Overdrive may well leave the sting of desert sands in the nostrils but they do so much more too. Three albums in ‘Ascendant’ […]
Canadian thrash band Annihilator are back with a brand new album “Ballistic, Sadistic” and it’s one we’ve been anticipating, the veterans very rarely let us down and at album number 17, it appears there […]
Some bands just evoke a place and a time and to me Heavy Pettin’ always reminds me of the early days of my lifelong love affair with Rock and Roll when I first started […]
Formed in 1982 Melbourne’s The Dirty Rats finally got off the mark with their debut album release last year and now they’re back with a second in quick succession. If you expected the ensuing decades […]
It’s taken almost two decades for Sydney’s Enter 6 to release this second studio album and it’s one that has me firmly sat on the fence here. The production is awful for a start, the […]
Let’s face it there have been very few classic Christmas songs and even fewer classic Christmas song collections in the rock arena over the years. Can I just spoil all that humbug by saying […]
2019 has once again seen (and heard) Australian Blues players produce some of their finest work to date and Perth-based blues-rock guitarist Matty T Wall has thrown his hat into the ring with his […]
Cold Chisel are back with Blood Moon, their ninth studio album, which is released through Cold Chisel Music & Universal Music Australia on 6 December. Messrs Barnes, Walker, Moss, Small & Drayton have been […]
Modern Rock with a late 90’s flavour to it is what you get in these 11 tracks from Cinder that make up ‘The Machine.’ So logically if you like the sort of Rock that is […]
Prong are back with some new material but it’s just a teaser in the form of an EP release titled “Age Of Defiance”. Considering the quality of recent albums, an EP release just isn’t […]
‘Blood & Irony,’ a song co-written with Black Star Riders Ricky Warwick, that opens Anchor Lane’s first long-player is a song that leaves a lot of doors open. It’s laid back, built on a repetitive […]
Mötley Crüe have been in the news lately, you might have seen them. You know that band that could never, ever tour again because they’d signed a ‘cessation of touring agreement’ saying just that. […]
Some bands are just difficult to categorise, and whilst that never bothers me as a listener (I either connect, or don’t or somewhere in between) it does mean when you review their music you […]
I’m not sure I really need to see or hear another live DVD by Journey, much as I love the band and think they are great live the thought of another DVD to add to […]
Quiet Riot do keep making albums unlike some of their contemporaries who packed it all in years ago, and for that you have to commend them. Whatever your thoughts on the legitimacy of a band […]
OK they got me again, despite my aversion to ‘intro tracks’ in this case I will allow one that introduces the band like an awards show before storming into the wonderfully sleazy slice of hook-laden […]
One of the bands that really reminds me of discovering 70’s Rock back in my youth via my mate’s brother’s extensive record collection is Molly Hatchet. As a kid I loved just looking at the […]
After a great debut in ‘Let’s Rock-N-Roll’ (2009) Charm City Devils put out two more great albums -Sins (2012) and Battles (2014), it’s been five long years since… So with three full length releases under […]
Wigan’s ‘Bigfoot’ were one of the bands in the last few years that I was sure stood a good chance of making it, when I spoke to them in October 2017 the album was […]
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