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NOW IN STOCK … TUFF “Fist First” Remastered Special Edition color Vinyl LP is now IN STOCK from RLS Records

UPDATE: February 10th 2024! The new TUFF “Fist First” Vinyl is officially IN-STOCK and shipping! Order your copy today! LOS ANGELES, California — I am stoked to announce that we’re officially taking initial pre-orders for our next Vinyl release. That’s right, RLS Records are issuing a remaster of our 1994 TUFF release “Fist First” and it’s bigger, better and more bad-ass for sure. The new TUFF “Fist First” has been remastered and fully repackage outside[…]

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TUFF NEWS 2024 … Stevie Rachelle Announces Tour Dates in Thailand, Peru, Ohio, Brazil, Monsters of Rock Cruise and ‘Fist First’ on Vinyl

LOS ANGELES, California — Just in time for you to mark your calendars for 2024… ready, set, go! Hey everyone, Stevie Rachelle here with an update from sunny Southern California on a beautiful December morning. I have all kinds of exciting news to tell you about and I will start with some solo shows that I have starting this coming week in Peru! For the first time ever, I will be appearing in Lima Peru[…]

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NEW VINYL … TUFF release new Vinyl via RLS Records with a 12″ remastered reissue of “The Glam Years 1985-1989”

Metal Sludge — The vinyl craze continues and TUFF along with the band’s own indy print RLS Records have just released a reissue remaster of “The Glam Years 1985-1989” on 12″ black purple vinyl. Back in 2021 TUFF announced their signing of an official licensing deal with Rhino Entertainment Warner Music Group to secure the rights to remaster and reissue their Atlantic Records debut “What Comes Around Goes Around.” Now to kick off 2023, the[…]

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TUFF DIARIES #19 … Michael Resigns, River Phoenix, Thirsty Whale, He’s Got a Gun, Stolen Van and Danny Quits

Metal Sludge — We’re now pushing forward, and into the 1990’s. The band was faced with obstacle after obstacle, but I was still as committed and determined as ever. Regardless of the future showing little to no hope for a glam band from the Sunset Strip, I didn’t want to accept the fact that the odds were stacked against us, or… I was blind as a bat. It’s now 1993 and the band started off[…]

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GOT VINYL? … Tuff sign license deal with Rhino Entertainment to release “What Comes Around Goes Around” remastered for 30th Anniversary

Metal Sludge — Hell has appeared to have frozen over once again. Hollywood rockers Tuff and RLS Records have signed an official licensing deal with Rhino Entertainment and Warner Music Group to reissue their 1991 Atlantic Records debut “What Comes Around Goes Around.” Tuff “What Comes Around Goes Around” was originally released back on May 14th 1991 and produced by Howard Benson. The release saw Tuff catapult onto Dial MTV all the way up to[…]

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TUFF DIARIES #16 … Lita Ford, Jason Flom, 75+ Shows, Cocaine, a Lawsuit, Sweet F.A. & the Big Freeway Fight

— It’s the 4th quarter of 1991 and we had just got back from a long U.S. tour. We also went to England for the American Dream concert series in London. After flying back into Florida from our overseas trip we met back up with our roadies. Our budget didn’t allow for us to bring our full road-crew so we put them up in a cheap motel in Orlando for a week. You see our[…]

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TUFF DIARIES #14 … New York City, Mixing the Record, Video Shoots, Sony Publishing, Cherry St. and Tigertailz

Tuff Diaries #14New York City, Mixing the Record, Video Shoots, Sony Publishing, Cherry St. and Tigertailz Steevi Jaimz, Sir Arthur Payson, Atlantic Records, Martha Quinn, William Hames & The Limelight in NYCDates: February, March, April, May & June 1991 —  Time to mix our first ever full-length record. Seeing and hearing our major label debut get mixed was amazing. A man named Sir Arthur Payson was hired to mix the record. He had previously worked with[…]

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TUFF DIARIES #12 … Ready to record, Howard Benson, FM Station, Jani Lane, Court hearing and a Playboy Playmate

TUFF DIARIES #12 Ready to record, Howard Benson, FM Station, Jani Lane, Court hearing and my 1st Playboy Playmate Andy Secher, Paul O’Neil, Susie Owens, Hot Rod Long, Bobbie Brown, Tommi Gunn, Sabine & Young Guns.  — Tuff finally gets signed in the spring of 1990 After years of playing shows, writing and recording songs – the big goal is achieved. We got a record deal. The word is that Atlantic Records has offered Tuff a[…]

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TUFF DIARIES #11 … Hello 1990, Texas Strippers, Hells Angels, the Britny Fox Tour and Atlantic Records signs Tuff

TUFF DIARIES #11 Hello 1990, Texas Strippers, Hells Angels, the Britny Fox Tour and Atlantic Records signs Tuff ‘Dizzy’ Dean Davidson, Dangerous Toys, Pariah, Troubadour, Jani Lane, X-Poseur 54, Axl Rose, Marq Torien  —  It’s a new decade, the 90’s have officially begun and the 80’s are in the rearview mirror. Everyone was stoked for the 90’s. Little did we know what was waiting around the corner? Tuff are entering the 5th year as a group and we’re[…]

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