Live Reviews

April 23, 2016

Now THAT was a Rock Show! The Darkness live at the beautiful Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles

Now THAT was a Rock Show! The Darkness live at the beautiful Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles Los Angeles California — The Darkness did southern California rock fans a favor after boarding a plane in the UK and flying back across the globe for the second U.S. leg to their Blast of Our Kind Tour. Playing multiple west coast venues, I caught them at the beautifully restored 1920s era Belasco theatre in Los Angeles. A place oddly I’ve never been[…]

April 19, 2016

SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW Anniversary party in parking lot puts exclamation point on retro-rock weekend

SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW Anniversary party in parking lot puts exclamation point on retro-rock weekend HOLLYWOO, Calif., USA — An action-packed weekend of retro rock was capped Sunday in grand fashion with the 44th annual Rainbow Bar & Grill Anniversary party, where about 1,000 revelers packed not just the legendary restaurant/club but the parking lot, too, as L.A. Guns, Autograph, Junkyard, Tuff, Circus of Power and others performed in succession beginning in the early afternoon. It[…]

April 10, 2016

GUNS N’ ROSES N’ BACH … Axl Rose and Sebastian Bach sing ‘My Michelle’

GUNS N’ ROSES N’ BACH Axl Rose and Sebastian Bach sing ‘My Michelle’ Rolling Stone — At Guns N’ Roses‘ second of two Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena concerts, and the second official date on their Not in This Lifetime tour, the band’s “classic” lineup reunited with another old friend: Sebastian Bach. As the former Skid Row singer has done with the Axl Rose-led GN’R lineups over the past decade, Bach joined the band to share[…]

April 9, 2016

GUNS N’ ROSES Felt Like GUNS N’ ROSES Again At First Official Comeback Concert >Review<

GUNS N’ ROSES Felt Like GUNS N’ ROSES Again At First Official Comeback Concert By Clay Marshall — What a difference a quarter-century makes. After one of the most peculiar launches imaginable — one that, following a press release which raised more questions than answers, saw a high-profile late-night television appearance scrapped at the last minute, a curious concert cancellation by the group’s original drummer, a shocking flirtation with AC/DC that threatened to control the narrative, a[…]

April 8, 2016

CINDERELLA STORY…Tom Keifer kills it with mesmerizing performance in California

CINDERELLA STORY Tom Keifer kills it with mesmerizing performance in California LOS ANGELES — More than three years since legendary glam act Cinderella last played together, singer Tom Keifer is still going strong. The tall, dark-haired front man with the golden rasp headlined Canyon Club before a near-capacity crowd on Thursday, April 7, treating us to an 80-minute set mostly devoted to Cinderella, a Philadelphia foursome that hit it big a generation ago with multi-platinum[…]

April 4, 2016

PAY TO PEE? South Florida’s heat wave didn’t help attendance at inaugural ‘RockFest 80’s’

PAY TO PEE? South Florida’s heat wave didn’t help attendance at the inaugural ‘RockFest 80’s’ South Florida — This past weekend was the first ever ‘RockFest 80’s‘ music festival. The 2 day event was held April 2nd & 3rd and took place at Markham Park in Sunrise Florida. The inaugural event supplied 22 hours of music by more than 20 artists. At the press kick-off local Radio Dj Paul Castronova and event organizer Roy Anthony talked about the[…]

March 10, 2016

MONSTERS OF BACH …. “A train wreck you just can’t stop watching” review of Sebastian Bach on recent cruise

MONSTERS OF BACH “A train wreck you just can’t stop watching” review of Sebastian Bach on recent cruise NYS Muisc — This particular expedition was all about the ‘shredder’, the guitarist. Legendary names like Steve Vai, Akira Takahashi, Michael Angelo Batio, Vinnie Moore, George Lynch, Gus G all boarded this boat of mayhem to play, meet fans, provide classes or guitar clinics and rock the hell out. Many veteran cruisers said this was the favorite[…]

February 5, 2016

THAT’S TATE, AS IN GREAT … Ex-Queensryche singer delivers in L.A. concert performance

THAT’S TATE, AS IN GREAT Ex-Queensryche singer delivers in L.A. concert performance LOS ANGELES — You never heard the word “Queensryche” on Thursday, Feb. 4, but the good news, at least for Geoff Tate, was that no one needed to.Yes, Tate lost the battle in 2014 for rights to the name in a court settlement with the other members now forging on as Queensryche without the iconic founding singer. But Mr. Tate has not lost[…]

January 6, 2016

JACKPOT! Metal Sludge does Las Vegas for New Years Weekend By: Gerry Gittelson

JACKPOT! METAL SLUDGE DOES LAS VEGAS FOR NEW YEARS WEEKEND LAS VEGAS, Nev., USA — They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — but not in our case. Metal Sludge took in a long, rockin’ weekend to the city that never sleeps (that part is true) for an official road report. No surprise, it has taken us a few days to recover, but alas we have all the gory details and[…]

January 3, 2016

January 1st 2016 – Live review by Izzy Presley

FASTER GUNS L.A. Guns and Faster Pussycat kick off the New Year at “The Whisky” Hollywood, CALIFORNA — 2016 kicked off with a bang at the world famous Whisky A Go Go as Faster Pussycat and LA Guns put on a killer sold out show. When I say sold out, I mean elbow to assholes and opening bands trying to sell their tickets for upwards of $200 sold out. Both bands played killer sets as you[…]