Tag: hard rock
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Back in 2014 ex-L.A. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns played at a Keith Moon and Jon Entwistle tribute show alongside Poison drummer Rikki Rocket and Cinderella bassist Eric Brittingham. The three had great chemistry and decided to start a band together. Rikki suggests they check out his singer friend Brandon Gibbs, who Eric previously played with…
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If you want to avoid a headache, you should probably avoid reading this review. You see, this is the most confusing — if not even slightly controversial — album Bon Jovi has ever released. First of all, Jon Bon Jovi and camp keep calling it a “fan album,” stating that their next album will be…
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The first time I heard Dead Lord from Sweden I was mighty perplexed. This was largely because they’re on Century Media Records, who typically release music that’s extremely heavy and entirely modern, two things you couldn’t exactly accuse Dead Lord of being. But by the time I finished listening to their new album, Heads Held…
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Who knows what album this gold nugget was originally intended for… It’s not bad though. In fact, the chorus is plenty catchy. And it’s better than the singles from Bon Jovi’s last album.
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If you were only a fan of “I Believe In A Thing Called Love,” the mega-hit single from Permission To Land, the debut album by The Darkness, then all I can say is that you’ve missed some incredible hard rock ‘n’ roll since then. To that end, their new album, Last of Our Kind, would…
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ROYAL BLOOD ADD HEADLINING DATES [PRESS RELEASE] LOS ANGELES, CA – June 2, 2015 – BRIT and NME Award-winning UK duo Royal Blood have announced additional headlining U.S. dates to take place this fall. The dates are in addition to the previously announced SOLD OUT headlining dates, performances at Governor’s Ball, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, Life Is…
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A few months ago I caught Scott Weiland and his band, The Wildabouts, when they performed in the Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun Casino. And he was at the top of his game. He sounded fantastic, seemed to be enjoying himself and was full of energy. All of these things are also true about his…
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By now you’ve probably heard the news — Skid Row have parted ways with vocalist Johnny Solinger after 14 years together and TNT frontman Tony Harnell is their new lead singer. Personally, I liked the music they made with Johnny Solinger. I wasn’t crazy about Revolutions Per Minute, but Thickskin was a very solid album…
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Stryper’s powerhouse vocalist Michael Sweet and guitar maestro George Lynch, formerly of Dokken, have joined forces here and the result is a truly incredible album that’s better than anything either of them has done in quite a while. Not that either of them have put out bad music during recent years, mind you. George Lynch…
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interview by Michael McCarthy It was only around twenty seconds into Night Demon’s debut full-length, Curse of the Damned, when I fell in love with it and knew it was going to be one of the very best metal albums I’d heard in a long time. The guitars were in the vein of Metallica’s “Whiplash”…
