Review: Sergeant Steel – Mister Sippi Metalapolis Records (June 30th 2023) Reviewer: Jason Hopper I’m not overly familiar with the band Sergeant Steel. I bought one song from them (‘Cry Out Your Heart, Baby!’) way back in 2013 and then they dropped off my radar. I had no idea they released several albums since then, with […]

Hard rock vocalists Terry Ilous and Jack Russell have released a cover of the Tom Petty classic ‘I Won’t Back Down‘. Terry Ilous moved to Hollywood from Lyon, France in 1984, and formed the hard rock band XYZ along with friend and bassist Pat Fontaine .XYZ released their debut self-titled album (produced by Don Dokken) in 1989 on Enigma Records. Currently Ilous is touring with ‘Legends of Classic Rock’, featuring Greg D’Angelo (White Lion) […]

Award-winning South African Blues-Rock guitarist Dan Patlansky has announced his May 2023 UK Headline Tour which will see him returning with a full band electric tour to the United Kingdom for eight dates commencing on Friday 12th May 2023 at Stereo, Glasgow, Scotland.  Dan Patlansky will be performing tracks from his latest 2022 studio album […]

Queens, New York based rock outfit King Falcon have released their new song ‘Cadillac’ on Mascot Records. King Falcon’s ultra-catchy songwriting recalls artists like Black Keys, Cage The Elephant, Tame Impala, The Killers, Royal Blood, and Beck. ‘Cadillac’ was produced by Marshall Altman and mixed by 12-time Grammy-nominated mixing engineer and producer Mark Needham (The Killers, Imagine Dragons, Fleetwood Mac, The Airborne Toxic Event). The song is brimming with earworm-worthy guitar riffage, a soaring chorus, soulfully melodic lead vocals, […]

With four studio albums, and countless, critically acclaimed live shows under their belt – including international tours with bands like Scorpions – it has become abundantly clear that Thundermother truly embody the rock ethos. The band’s latest, chart-topping album, ‘Black And Gold‘ (2022, AFM Records. Review here), has been critically acclaimed by both music fans and […]

Supporting the global release of their critically-acclaimed album ‘Under The Midnight Sun‘, in 2023 The Cult will connect with UK and European fans via a major summer tour – with the series of headlining shows and major festival appearances kicking off in Brussels, Belgium on June 14th. Accompanying the tour announcement is the release of The Cult’s fiery, expressionistic new video for ‘Vendetta X’, the third single from ‘Under The Midnight Sun‘. The song’s stylized cinematic reimagining […]