Upcoming New Wave of Classic Rock band Twister are climbing the ranks at incredible pace and set to take off with their debut album ‘Cursed & Corrected’. To be released on the Friday 13th of November by Off Yer Rocka Recordings. To kick off promotion in style the album will be available to pre-order alongside the release of the first..
BLACKHEART ORCHESTRA – ‘Big Armchair 3’ online show. With exclusive merchandise!
For sure, there have been a lot of online, 'virtual' shows in 2020 so far, with the restrictions we are still experiencing. But how many of them allow you to get exclusive souvenir merchandise, including a great coffee mug to use while actually watching! Here's what Chrissy and Rick (aka The Blackheart Orchestra) are saying..
CARRIE MARTIN – New single with Gordon Giltrap
A true born and bred Yorkshire lass - Hull's latest musical find first picked up the guitar at the tender age of four - making her stage debut aged nine. The music bug was set for life! By the end of her teens she was bathing in her radio heroes - The Bangles, Cyndi Lauper..
Photo Credit: Ray Bjorge
Enslaved – Ivar Bjørnson discusses the band line-up and recording of new album ‘Utgard’
Norwegian blackened avant-gardists ENSLAVED are set to release their 15th studio album, Utgard, on October 2nd via Nuclear Blast. In a trailer released this week, guitarist Ivar Bjørnson discusses the current band line-up and the recording of the new album. Pre-Order Utgard Utagrd will be available in the following formats: CD jewel case (available with signed..
KURSAAL FLYERS – Little Does She Know: The Complete Recordings (RPM / Cherry Red)
...music to dance to, think to, laugh to and sing to. Which is pretty much the Kursaal Flyers mission statement in a nutshell. Okay then. All UK readers of a certain age who just received an unassailable earworm merely by reading the title of this set, raise your hands. All of you, huh? No surprise..
Long Distance Calling – How Do We Want To Live? (InsideOut)
Long Distance Calling are one of the best and most internationally successful instrumental rock bands from Germany, a country that does produce great 'non-vocal' music. They were formed in 2006 and How Do We Want To Live? is their seventh studio album. The majority of their tracks are now extended instrumentals, but despite this their sound..
Hittman – Destroy All Humans (No Remorse Records)
The reunion “trend” has always been a two-sided card. On the one hand we have bands which simply do not live to the expectations and release mediocre new music just for the sake of it, with no heart or feel anymore. I will not give examples, because someone will be offended, but you definitely have..
Interview with Geoff Thorpe (Vicious Rumors)
Vicious Rumors have been carrying the flag of US power metal for more than 4 decades now and Geoff Thorpe, as the only original band member remaining, knows the story best. The perseverance this band has soldiered on with through personal tragedy (the loss of legendary frontman Carl Albert in 1995) and the grunge dominated..
Photo: (c) Lee Wilkinson
Rick Wakeman – From The Centre Of The Earth To The Red Planet
Those of us who teethed musically in the '70s were blessed to witness the flourishing of a triumvirate of amazing keyboard players: Tony Banks, Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman. All three were in their prime and playing in bands also at their musical peak. Yes were my favourite band in those years, and while Jon..
Kim Simmonds – Savoy Brown Ain’t Done Yet
We had a very American sound, and when we came over, bang, it just fitted... A common theme with articles about classic European bands is their failure to ‘crack America’. It seems strange that bands that are household names over here, or even part of the British or European psyche, are virtually unknown to our..