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Israel Nash and his band return from the Texas Hill Country with the new album Israel Nash’s Silver Season to be released October 9th, 2015 via Loose/Thirty Tigers. This is very welcome news as the 2013 Israel Nash release ‘Rain Plans’ is a terrific record so anticipation for this new release is very high.
Read MoreFresh out of the mountains of Southwest Virginia Black Mountain Shine have burst on to the scene with a hard rockin’ country influenced sound that shows a close affinity with such giants of classic rock radio as The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Formed by two brothers and two lifelong friends, Black Mountain Shine have a history of making music together. Band members have performed over 1,600 shows while sharing the stage with Blake Shelton, Little Big Town, 38 Special, Toby Keith, Trace Adkins, Kip Moore, Gretchen Wilson, Marty Stuart, and many others.
Read MoreFans of seminal Canadian act Rush will, I’m sure, be aware of the vinyl reissue campaign the band and their label Universal have embarked on in 2015. The legendary act are in the process of re-releasing their catalogue on vinyl and each LP will also contain a download code for the High Res Digital Audio of the album in a range of formats. Selected albums will also be made available on the Blu-Ray Pure Audio format (Fly By Night / A Farewell To Kings / Signals).
Read MoreThat little ol’ band from Texas – the legendary ZZ Top have announced they will return to the UK for a one-off show at London’s SSE Arena Wembley on Wednesday 24th June, plus very special guests Thunder.
Read MoreLegendary rock act Toto will return to the UK in May 2015 for three 'An Evening With' shows in support of their new album due Spring, 2015. The new album Toto XIV will be their first since 'Falling In Between' in 2006.
Read MoreExciting news for all Fleetwood Mac fans is the return of the band to UK shores for two dates in 2015 at the O2 in London on the 27th and 28th of May. Even better news is the return of Christine McVie to the band after a sixteen year absence.
Read MoreBlackberry Smoke may still be on their European tour, with Australian act Massive in support, but the Atlanta rockers are in no mood to let the grass grow under their feet. On February 9, 2015, they will release Holding All the Roses, the band’s fourth studio album.
Read MoreUpdated 21st November.
The third Vasby Rock Festival in Stockholm, Sweden is set for July 17-18th 2015 and the festival organisers have announced the first seven acts set to perform.
Magnum / Heaven & Earth / Eden's Curse / Astral Doors / Madman's Lullaby / Work Of Art / Adrenalin Rush.
Read MoreClassic hard rock act Heaven & Earth featuring guitarist Stuart Smith and frontman Joe Retta are hard at work on a follow up to the acclaimed 2013 release ‘Dig’. The band has undergone some changes and the new line-up welcomes Ty Bailie (Keyboards), Lynn Sorensen (bass / vocals) and legendary drummer Kenny Aronoff to the fold. Sorensen has seen service with Paul Rodgers / Bad Company while Aronoff (John Mellencamp / John Fogerty / Chickenfoot / Smashing Pumpkins) should need no introduction.
Read MoreRod Stewart’s studio LPs originally released between 1969 and 1974 are brought together in a boxed set for the first time. Each LP will have exact reproductions of original artwork to retain authenticity, and will be pressed in 180 gram heavyweight audiophile vinyl and contained in a rigid slipcase box.
Read MoreLegendary AOR / melodic rock act Unruly Child are best known for their Beau Hill (Alice Cooper, Winger, Ratt) produced debut album from 1992 which is considered one of the finest albums of the genre.
Read MoreProducer, guitarist Michael Riesenbeck has launched a Kickstarter campaign to enable a physical CD pressing of his recently completed album ‘II’. Michael has worked with many artists over the years in the melodic rock / AOR genre including Lec Zorn Project, Michael Bormann (Jaded Heart) and Phil Vincent. He is best known for his ‘Fanfields’ project a Toto tribute album that was very well received.
Read MoreRumours have been circulating for quite some time that the seminal Bryan Adams album ‘Reckless’ might be ready for the deluxe reissue treatment. The good news is that Adams and his record company seem to have done a good job of raiding the vaults for unreleased material. The release includes seven bonus tracks added to the original album and a live BBC recording of a show from Hammersmith Odeon, London. As is the case with such reissues a super deluxe edition will include a DVD of music videos and a Blu-ray audio disc of the new remaster + 5.1 surround mix of the original album housed in a hardback book style sleeve.
Read MoreCanadian melodic rock act Harem Scarem has returned with news of their new album entitled ‘Thirteen’. It will be their first album of new material since ‘Hope’ in 2008. The band did return to duty last year to rerecord ‘Mood Swings’ and the tour for that album seems to have got the band up and firing again.
Read MoreClassic rock fans amongst you should be interesting in this forthcoming release from the Frontiers label. The 2CD/DVD show was recorded live at the intimate El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on March 18th, 2014.
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