JAMES REYNE – Covers the King April 19, 2010 | Author: Jesse Shrock Yes, you read right. Knowing full well that he is ‘painting a target on his back’, former Australian Crawl frontman James Reyne is about to release TCB, an album of songs made famous by Elvis Presley. Though…

JOOLS HOLLAND April 19, 2010 | Author: Greg Phillips Jools Holland is jealous. He is speaking to me from his office above his recording studio in London where he is overlooking a bleak, cloudy sky at the beginning of a typically dreary UK winter’s day. I tell him it’s 10pm…

GLEN MATLOCK April 19, 2010 | Author: Greg Phillips He may be known to most  as the bass player Sid Vicious replaced, but importantly Glen Matlock could actually play his instrument and also pen a tune.  He is credited with co-writing ten of the twelve tracks off the infamous  ‘Never…

PROJECT 3 April 15, 2010 | Author:  Peter Hodgson The life of a working musician isn’t that different to the life of, say, a journalist. You have your day job, which pays the bills and keeps you in the industry (in my case it’s business journalism) but then there’s the…

AIRBOURNE March 10, 2010 | Author: Greg Phillips Warrnambool’s finest, the hard livin’, hard rockin’ Airbourne, packed their bags, marshalled their global troops and their truckload of Marshall amps as they set out for a sonic assault on the world with their powerful new album ‘No Guts’ No Glory’. With…

STEVE MORSE (DEEP PURPLE) March 10, 2010 | Author – Greg Phillips Along with fellow British rockers Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, Deep Purple is the third in a triumvirate of bands long considered to be the pioneers of the hard rock genre, a style which eventually morphed into heavy…

Why profile a rock band from Long Beach, New York who nobody here has really heard of, has yet to play a gig and remain without management or a record deal? Well, it’s the way four piece rock outfit My Son The Bum operate which intrigues me. That, and the…

JET – SHAKA ROCK! September 10, 2009 | Author – Reza Nasseri You guys stated that the band had more creative control in the studio when making Shaka Rock, and weren’t as influenced by a producer or the record label. How was making this record different from your previous albums?…

PAUL DEMPSEY September 10, 2009 | Author: Greg Phillips Still only in his early 30s, Dempsey has matured considerably since his 1998 debut solo set An Empty Flight on which he invited a select bunch of guests to write and sing their own lyrics to his musical scores. Here, he…