Mötley Crüe’s party train has hit the brakes in Sin City 🎰🤘 — frontman Vince Neil has been forced to undergo a medical procedure, leading the band to postpone their much-hyped Las Vegas residency. The residency, which was set to bring “Girls, Girls, Girls” chaos and pyrotechnics that could melt your eyebrows clean off, will […]
When you think of Ricky Warwick, you think leather jackets, roaring riffs, and that unmistakable Irish snarl that’s carried him from The Almighty to fronting Thin Lizzy and Black Star Riders. But with his latest solo track, Rise & Grind, Warwick’s pointing his lyrical spotlight at something far more real than the usual rock ’n’ […]
Ghost frontman Tobias Forge has planted his crucifix firmly in the ground: no phones on the 2025 Ghost tour. Yep, Papa Emeritus himself wants your iPhone locked away tighter than a nun’s gin stash. So is this a masterstroke of rock ’n’ roll theatre – or a daft way to annoy fans who just want […]
The Unholy Return Slayer. The very name still sends shivers down the spine of metalheads everywhere. For years, we were told it was over. The kings of chaos had laid down their swords after their 2019 farewell tour. The blood had stopped raining. Tom Araya had screamed his last scream. Kerry King had promised a […]
Ghost have pulled the old switcheroo again, mun – Tobias Forge has introduced the world to Papa V Perpetua, the latest in the unholy bloodline of anti-popes fronting the Swedish occult rock juggernaut. And to mark the coronation? They’ve dropped a brand-new single that’s as blasphemously bombastic as you’d expect: “Satanized.” 🤘 This marks the […]
Well, mun, talk about starting a tour with a bang! The legendary Neil Young has announced he’ll be opening his European run with something bold, powerful, and pure Neil – a free concert in Ukraine. 🕊️🎸 At 78, most rockers are happy enough pottering about their gardens or flogging remastered vinyl boxsets. Not Neil. The […]
Well, well, well… trust Sir Mick to stroll into Hollywood’s biggest night and casually blow the roof off with a speech that’s already being hailed as the best moment of the Oscars 2025. 🤯🏆 The Rolling Stones frontman made a surprise appearance at the ceremony, and instead of playing it safe with the usual “thanks […]
The Boys Are Always Back in Town 🍺 Dublin 1969 – The Birth of a Legend Thin Lizzy weren’t born in Hollywood, London, or New York. Nope. They crawled out of the pubs and grit of Dublin in 1969, led by poet, bassist, and frontman Phil Lynott and his childhood mate Brian Downey on drums. […]
From Rebellion to MTV Royalty – When Rock Took Over the World In the 70s, rock music was dangerous. Loud. Long-haired. A bit grubby. Your parents hated it. Your gran clutched her pearls. Your teachers muttered about Satan. But by the 1980s? Rock was everywhere. In the charts. On the telly. In your cereal ads. […]
Get ready to trade the comfy theatre seats for air guitars and sweaty singalongs, because Ffwrnes Rock Weekend is landing in Llanelli with a wall of sound and some of the UK’s best tribute acts. This March, the Ffwrnes Theatre is tearing up the rulebook and going full rock ‘n’ roll. Forget Shakespeare – we’re […]
The amps are hot, the floors are sticky, and the riffs are relentless — Fuel Rock Club is charging into March 2025 with a line-up that screams, sweats, and stage-dives through every genre under the Welsh sky. 🎤⚡ From hardcore and alt-punk to tribute nights and club chaos, this month’s schedule is a headbanger’s dream. […]
👶 From Vincent to Villain (1948 – Early Years) Before he was chucking guillotines and tangoing with boa constrictors, Alice Cooper was born Vincent Damon Furnier in Detroit, 1948. Proper Midwestern church-going family, nothing too shocking… until young Vince decided he wanted to scare the pants off the world. The early bands? The Earwigs → […]
The glam-punk world has lost one of its loudest, proudest, and cheekiest voices. David Johansen, the snarling, strutting frontman of the New York Dolls, has died aged 75. His family confirmed the news, and already tributes are pouring in for the man who helped rewrite rock’s rulebook with lipstick, leather and an attitude sharp enough […]
What’s occurring, riff fiends? While the rest of the world was moaning about soggy Pancake Day and early spring drizzle, the metal realm decided March 2025 was the month to unleash absolute chaos. From thrash legends returning to blackened atmospherics and genre-bending madness, this month was a proper sonic smack in the chops. YESS MUN! […]
Forget spring — March 2025 didn’t bloom, it detonated. 💥 This month marched in with blast beats, howled into the void, and served up some of the most eclectic, intense, and unhinged albums we’ve heard in ages. Whether you’re into avant-garde black metal opera or thrash that’ll knock your fillings out, this month had it […]