Review: Smith/Kotzen – Black Light/White Noise Tour, Support – Kris Barras Rock City, Nottingham (February 12th, 2026) Photographer / Reviewer – Dan Mann A soggy Thursday night, but with two excellent bands to see it should be peachy? Well, a combination of road works, slow drivers etc meant that unfortunately I only caught the end […]
Smith/Kotzen, the acclaimed pairing of guitar icons Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen, have today released an expanded deluxe digital version of their highly praised second album ‘Black Light / White Noise‘. It contains two new songs that were previously only available on the Japanese CD edition of the album and are released globally today for […]
Smith/Kotzen, the acclaimed pairing of guitar icons Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen, have released the cinematic lyric video for album track ‘Blindsided’. A driving and heavy-hitting rock song, it’s one of the stand-out tracks from the band’s highly praised second album ‘Black Light / White Noise‘ (review here), which was a UK No.1 hit on […]
Following on from their critically acclaimed second album, ‘Black Light / White Noise‘ (review here), which was a UK No.1 hit on the Official Rock & Metal chart, Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen will be taking their show on the road early next year touring the UK and Europe in February and March 2026. […]
Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen released their brand new studio album ‘Black Light / White Noise‘ ( review here) via BMG on Splatter vinyl, black vinyl, digipak CD and DSPs to widespread global acclaim last Friday (April 4th). Now following its release they have also just unveiled the lyric video for the track ‘Outlaw’. Stream […]
Review: Smith/Kotzen – Black Light / White Noise BMG (April 4th 2025) Reviewer – David Mark Pearce Here is the second album by the magical pairing of Richie Kotzen and Adrian Smith! If you thought the debut was good then this is 100 times better! As good as the debut was there’s nothing like a […]
Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen have released ‘Black Light’, the second upfront single from their brand new sophomore album. It is accompanied by a dynamic, multi-layered video, again produced and directed by Kevin and Richard Ragsdale aka The Ragsdale Brothers (Daughtry, Dorothy feat. Slash, Theory of A Dead Man), and featuring the duo performing with […]
Review: Smith/Kotzen – Better Days…And Nights BMG (Sept 16th, 2022) Reviewer: David Mark Pearce Previously released on their, now sadly sold out, vinyl ep ‘Better Days‘, Smith/Kotzen have now released this as a ‘hybrid’ album, if you will. A release I am truly thankful for as I sadly missed out on the vinyl ep. I […]
Smith/Kotzen have released a thrilling new live video for the single ‘Got A Hold On Me’. The previously unreleased live version is taken from the brand new CD release ‘Better Days… And Nights‘, released globally on CD and digital formats through BMG on 16th September 2022. Pre-order the album here. ‘Better Days… And Nights‘ comprises five previously unreleased live tracks, plus for the first time ever on […]
Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen will play their first ever live shows in the UK together, on a whitle-stop headline tour in February & March 2022 including a date at Planet Rock, Winter’s End. The full list of dates is: Sun Feb 27 Manchester Club Academy Mon Feb 28 Leeds Brudenell Social Club Wed Mar 02 Glasgow Garage Thu Mar 03 Wolverhampton KK’s Steel Mill Sat Mar 05 Leamington Spa Winters End Mon Mar 07 Bristol Fleece Tue Mar 08 London Islington Assembly Hall Support on all own-show dates comes from The Dust Coda. Tickets go on sale […]
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