Released earlier this month by Dai Hard Records is the debut album from Ragdolls, a punk-tinged glam band from Cardiff, UK, that formed in the spring of 1988, split up a few short years later and yet somehow, 30 years on, are back with Old Habits Die Hard. Born in one of the countless microcosms […]
The Stockholm based hard rock quartet Abramis Brama returns with ”Tusen år”, a focused, dense album that stays true to band‘s ideals – the heavy riffs, the groove, the Swedish vocals – and also digs deeper with thoughtful and poetic lyrics, both celebrating and lamenting our existence as humans from the beginning of time into […]
Another of our Soundcheck interview shows, and in this one I get to chat with Michael Sweet ahead of the release of the new Stryper album. Please bookmark the Stryper website, like their Facebook page and follow on Twitter: @Stryper as well as bookmarking Michael’s website, liking on Facebook and following on Twitter: @MichaelhSweet Thank you for listening […]
DVD: Run Chrissie Run! (1984) I have to admit that I wasn’t expecting a low budget ozploitation movie to begin in London, but the opening sequence filmed there sets up the narrative that will follow. IRA member Michael Riley (Michael Aikens) reneges on killing a man and ends up shooting a fellow IRA member instead, […]
The original rock ‘n roll outlaws, Rose Tattoo will be kicking off their Blood Brothers 2018 tour at the end of this month. Full Australian/European tour dates can be found here: http://www.rosetattoo.com.au/tourdates/ To celebrate the tour, Golden Robot Records are reissuing the bands classic 2007 album, Blood Brothers throughout Europe on 18th May, 23rd March for Australia only. The re-issue features killer live […]
DVD & VOD: Score – A Film Music Documentary (2016) Music is well known for affecting your emotions, and none more so than in film scores where it accompanies and enhances the visual action playing out before you. The themes from Rocky, Superman, and the The Good, The Bad and The Ugly are all ingrained […]
Blu-ray: The Passenger (1975) While containing more dialogue than many of director Michelangelo Antonioni’s previous movies, The Passenger still focuses the majority of its narrative on the visual rather than the auditory. The camera follows the character of Locke (Jack Nicholson) like a ghostly apparition, committing his every move onto celluloid in what at times seem […]
Monument release a lyric video for the single Attila from their upcoming album Hellhound. Peter Ellis, the voice of Monument quotes: “Attila was one of these men of history who were more like a forces of nature than human beings and I felt that the music I had for the song fitted him perfectly so […]
DVD: Aces High (1976) Being a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during WWI was a job for life…a life that would likely end within a day or two due to the high fatality rate of the brave men who stepped into the cockpit of those early flying machines. Based on the book Journeys End […]
2018 marks the incredible 30 year anniversary for Danzig. To commemorate the occasion, Danzig will be performing a limited number of special shows in Europe in August 2018. The run begins August 2nd at Wacken Open Air where Danzig will headline one of the main stages, and includes stops in the UK, Germany, Luxembourg and Czech […]
