Reviews

November 27, 2015

BRINGING SEXY BACK Diemonds release ‘Ain’t That Kinda Girl’ with rock n’ roll hottie Priya Panda

BRINGING SEXY BACK Diemonds release ‘Ain’t That Kinda Girl’ with rock n’ roll hottie Priya Panda Toronto, CANADA — ‘I never wanted to end up just like you that ain’t my kinda world‘ is the message from Priya Panda in her band’s latest single/video for “Ain’t That Kinda Girl”. The band formed in Toronto in 2006 and has made multiple treks across most of North America driving in mini-vans and scrapping it out in tiny clubs. Panda with[…]

November 9, 2015

UK MOTLEY CRUE REVIEW “Mick Mars looks like he is actually dead and has just been reanimated for the purposes of performance”

UK MOTLEY CRUE REVIEW “Mick Mars looks like he is actually dead and has just been reanimated for the purposes of performance” By: Neil McCormick, music critic 7 NOVEMBER 2015 • 7:16PM The Telegraph — Is rock just ritual and theatre, a particularly loud and lairy form of pantomime? The question occurred to me in an arena blasted with dry ice, fireworks and flamethrowers, whirling lights and flashing images, musicians hovering about on hydraulic arms and[…]

October 11, 2015

1-WAY TIX TO HELL IN THE HEAT The Darkness LIVE Review at ‘Glass House’ Pomona, Calif.

1-WAY TIX TO HELL IN THE HEAT The Darkness LIVE Review at ‘Glass House’ Pomona, Calif. The Darkness – Pomona 10-09-2015 By: Mike Skillsky Pomona, CA — Temperatures in the triple digits didn’t stop the rock & roll faithful from lining up outside the Glass House in Pomona, CA. Friday night. The Darkness were back in town in support of their latest release The Last Of Our Kind, and these eager fans were ready[…]

October 4, 2015

LIVE REPORT: Scorpions sell out The Forum in L.A., and Metal Sludge is there to mark down all the gory details

LIVE REPORT: Scorpions sell out The Forum in L.A., and Metal Sludge is there to mark down all the gory details LOS ANGELES – This is the last hurrah for Scorpions, and the German band celebrated its 50th annivesary in style with a soldout concert Saturday, Oct. 3 before a delirious crowd of nearly 20,000 at the Forum. We wish a lot of brand-new bands featuring snot-nosed adolescents could show half of Scorpions’ exuberance[…]

September 19, 2015

LAST HURRAH The L.A. Music Awards celebrates 25th year with goodbye party at Whisky-A-Go-Go on the Sunset Strip

LAST HURRAH The L.A. Music Awards celebrates 25th year with goodbye party at Whisky, as Jack Russell, Sean McNabb and Mitch Perry are among the honorees WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., USA — What a celebration on Thursday, Sept. 17 at the Whisky for the 25th annual L.A. Music Awards, as Jack Russell, Sean McNabb and Mitch Perry were among those granted a lifetime achievement award. Russell is the singer for Jack Russell’s Great White, which[…]

September 14, 2015

ROAD REPORT Metal Sludge catches up with The Babys in Northern California

ROAD REPORT Metal Sludge catches up with The Babys in Northern California SAN JOSE, Calif., USA — It’s nice to get out of Los Angeles sometimes, so Metal Sludge hit the open road for a trek up the coast for The Babys live at Rockbar Theatre, and wow was it worth it. The legendary British band is in the third year of a comeback three decades since first splitting off, and with originals Wally[…]

September 7, 2015

GREAT NIGHT FOR GREAT WHITE Healthy again, Jack Russell delivers a strong performance at outdoor Rainbow party

GREAT NIGHT FOR GREAT WHITE Healthy again, Jack Russell delivers a strong performance at outdoor Rainbow party Hollywood , California – He has been through a lot over the years — lots of highs but a disproportionate amount of lows, too — and Jack Russell is still standing. The founding singer for Great White has his own verson of the iconic pop-metal band, and Russell came through with a rousing performance Sunday, Sept. 6[…]

August 30, 2015

Motley Crue Live: ‘Nikki high-fived people & Vince was thankful’ review of Charlotte 8/29

‘Nikki high-fived people & Vince was thankful’ Motley Crue Charlotte NC Sat 8/29 Review By: RedHotPunk Alice Cooper nailed it as usual. Great set list and theatrics as past shows of this tour. Great audience reaction, very receptive. Same set list as has been posted before, opened with ‘Girls’, then went into ‘Wildside’. From the vids I had seen not sure how opening with ‘Girls’ would be but it was somewhat different. The sound was[…]

August 23, 2015

SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN Bret Michaels has the sex and Dennis DeYoung has the strut in California concert pairing

SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN Bret Michaels has the sex and Dennis DeYoung has the strut in California concert pairing LANCASTER, Calif., USA — On a warm summer night in California, Poison’s Bret Michaels and ex-Styx band leader Dennis DeYoung teamed Saturday for a rock concert at the Antelope Valley fairgrounds, and a crowd of about 10,000 loved ’em both. DeYoung got things rolling just as the sun was getting ready to set, starting with a torrid[…]

July 12, 2015

WELCOME TO THE WHISKY! ADLER rocks the Sunset Strip with original set highlighted by GUNS N’ ROSES tunes

LOS ANGELES — He is such a nice guy who has been through so much that it’s hard to say anything bad about Steven Adler, the famous — and infamous — original drummer for legendary Guns N’ Roses. It’s been 25 years since Adler left the band, and in the interim he has endured a series of stutter steps in trying to get his own thing going. On Friday, July 10 he stopped in at[…]