Transatlantic are a renowned, celebrated and occasional four piece (sometimes five onstage) prog rock supergroup, featuring past and present members of bands like Dream Theatre, Marillion, Spock’s Beard and Flower Kings, which means their musical pedigree speaks for itself, and when they find time from their day jobs to get together, they become a musical..

Steelhouse: Black Stone Cherry confirmed as Sunday Headliners, making Steelhouse debut in UK exclusive!
Steelhouse Festival are proud to announce that Black Stone Cherry will be this year's Sunday headliners in a UK festival exclusive for the 28-30 July 2023 weekend. The Kentucky rockers, currently on a UK Arena tour, will be making their debut at the top of the mountain and adding even more weight to the truly international range of top drawer Rock..

JENNY DON’T AND THE SPURS : ‘Fire On The Ridge’ – new album by US Outlaw/alt country, garage rock and punk-tinged Americana outfit | out 17 March 2023
Displaying their own take on Outlaw/alt country, garage rock and punk-tinged Americana, Oregon, US-based Jenny Don't And The Spurs also showcase a diverse array of other styles on their forthcoming third album, Fire On The Ridge. Released on Fluff & Gravy Records (Richmond Fontaine/Margo Cilker/Jim White), it sees the band brandishing blistering barn-burners (Train Ticket,..

Thundermother – Black And Gold (AFM Records)
Photo: Guido Karp We now come to album number five by the very hard rocking Thundermother and I think that the surprise that it is an all-female group has now been consigned to history given that they are a superior hard rock band regardless of gender! It was in 2010 when guitarist Filippa Nässil relocated..

THE TANGENT – Pyramids, Stars & Other Stories (InsideOut)
Beginning life as a musical project, The Tangent were initially a vehicle for the work of Andy Tillison, who’d recruited some exceptional musicians to play on what became the band’s 2003 debut album, The Music That Died Alone, including Roine Stolt, guitar (Flower Kings), Jonas Reingold, bass (Flower Kings, Steve Hackett) and David Jackson, sax..

Double Decade – compilation album by MÄRVEL out in February on The Sign Records
Märvel to release "Double Decade" vinyl compilation After releasing their 9th studio album Graces Came with Malice in April 2022, followed by organizing their own two day festival "Märvelfest" and heading on a tour in Spain, the Swedish power trio Märvel continues the celebration of their 20 year anniversary by releasing the double vinyl compilation..

Beth Hart announces Connor Selby as special guest on her March 2023 UK Tour
Beth sells out London Palladium show on 18th March! Tickets for the rest of the tour available from: WWW.ALTTICKETS.COM/BETH-HART-TICKETS WWW.GIGSINSCOTLAND.COM/ARTIST/BETH-HART Beth givin' it some! "Sounding like her vocal cords are marinated in nicotine and whisky, Beth Hart wields her voice like an earth-scorching flame-thrower...Hart shows no trepidation finding the right balance between gusto and good..

DEATHSTARS | announce new album ‘Everything Destroys You’ + new single/video ‘This Is’
Photo credit: Linus Bokehsius Swedish industrial cult act DEATHSTARS finally return with their latest sonic output Everything Destroys You, which will be released on May 5th through Nuclear Blast Records. Their first release in over eight years marks a long-awaited comeback, spotlighting everything that is DEATHSTARS: adrenaline, bombast, sex and glam! "The reason it's been taking so long is that we simply..

AVATAR release new single featuring LZZY HALE ‘Violence No Matter What’
Photo: Pierre Veillet The heavy metal, dark, madcap visionaries, collectively known as AVATAR, have emerged from deep within the Swedish forest in which they have been working on their ninth studio album, Dance Devil Dance, due for release 17th February 2023 via Black Waltz Records. They've released a brand new single and official lyric video for Violence No..

Dynazty – Final Advent (AFM Records)
Final Advent is the latest album from the Swedish melodic/power rock band Dynazty and is record number eight in a career which began back in 2007. Dynazty was put together by Rob 'Love' Magnusson and John Berg and recruited Georg 'Egg' Härnsten and Joel Apelgren and finally singer Nils Molin although there have been a couple..