I spoke with the guys from The Answer at Download to talk about their music and their plans.  Hear what they had to say using the player below…                  

I spoke to two of the guys from Tax the Heat at Download to talk about their music, Download and more.  Hear what they had to say using the player below…            

I spoke with Huntress singer Jill Janus at Download 2014 to talk about album plans, touring plans and we also ended up discussing her dogs (all rescued) and how she believes people should always adopt rescued pets rather than buying from breeders. Listen to what she had to say using …

The Starling Radicals are a fairly new band from South Wales, who only formed a year and a half ago, but who have already released their first mini-album, The World Outside.  The plan is for them to release a full album soon which will contain the six tracks from this …

At this years Download festival one of the bands I saw really impressed me with their live performance that just stood out from the crowd – The Bosshoss.  Dressed as cowboys their rock is mixed with country and Blues amongst other things.  Throw in a horn section, washboards and castanets …

Peter Frampton’s latest release has an unusual background – Ballet.  In April 2013 the Cincinnati Ballet performed two segments to some of Peter Frampton’s music before doing a third segment to new music from Peter Frampton, with Frampton and his band performing live for all three segments.  That new music …

Hmmm, how to describe Dick Venom & The Terrortones?   Well one description might be Psychobilly.  In case you haven’t come across Psychobilly before, it’s best described as a blend of Rockabilly and Punk rock. Throw in a healthy dose of Horror movies or B movies and that gives a rough …

I recently spoke to singer Elin Larsson, and guitarist Dorian Sorriaux from Blues Pills, a band that’s been making a name for themselves since they released their debut EP late last year.  The band are set to release their debut album in late July.  Hear what they had to say …

It’s two years since Unisonic emerged, with a debut EP and album.  The band hit the headlines for reuniting two legends of German rock/metal – Kai Hansen and Michael Kiske, reunited 23 years after they formed part of Helloween.  Now the band are back with a new EP ahead of …

London based Alexa de Strange have released their EP “Tits of death”.  Definitely a title designed to get attention and it does make a nice change from all those bands releasing self titled EPs and albums (are they really that short of imagination that they can’t think of a decent …

Irishman Colm Gray had the honour of opening the main stage today.  The planned world false beard attempt was postponed till later in the day so there would be more people around as the mud meant turnout was low this early.  Playing to a small crowd he went down well.  …

True deceivers got things started on the main stage.  With a mix of guitar, fiddle and vocals they were a good start to the day, but I was more interested in heading over to one of the other stages. Over in Tornado Town, East Town Pirates were putting in a …

Tonight was No Sinner’s last UK date on their current tour.  Having played the Black Heart in Camden as their only UK date when they were last in Europe, tonight sees them at the larger Upstairs venue at the Garage. The night kicked off with two support acts – The …

I spoke to Michael Amott and Alissa White-Gluz recently about the recent lineup change and about their new album, War Eternal. After over ten years, Angela has left Arch Enemy.  What was the bands reaction when she told you she wanted to leave? Michael:  We saw it coming actually so …

This year saw Bearded Theory festival moving to a new home after being at Kedleston Hall for years, it’s moved to Catton Hall, between Burton on Trent and Lichfield, and familiar to some fans as the home of Bloodstock festival.  Sadly despite the previous weekend enjoying scorching hot sunshine, this …

First up were German band nulldB, playing their first ever UK show.  With one band member painted one half white and the other half black, he was certainly eye catching.  Musically this was metal with a real Rammstein influence, particularly with the guitar riffs.  It was very impressive stuff and …

My first reaction to hearing that U.D.O had a new live release coming out was one of surprise – after all they released “Live in Sofia” just two years ago, and since then they’ve only released one album.  OK the 2012 release was a live CD whereas this is a …

It’s only a month since The Bermondsey Joyriders released their double A side single “Brian Jones (The real true leader of the rolling stones)/Johnny Thunders was a human being”, and now they’re releasing their third album.  Surprisingly considering how recently the single was released, the songs from it don’t appear …

First Three Albums Newly Remastered By Jimmy Page, Each With An Additional Disc Of Previously Unreleased Companion Audio Multiple CD, Vinyl, And Digital Formats, Including Limited Edition Super Deluxe Boxed Set, Available June 2 John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant came together in 1968 as Led …

Tarja’s latest release is not a typical Tarja album.  In fact it isn’t a typical rock album at all.  Where Tarja’s latest album, “Colours in the Dark” is a rock album with some classical elements, “Beauty and the beat” is more of a Classical music album with some rock thrown …