by The Pure Rock Shop | Jan 4, 2017 | News, Reviews
Nightwish rings in 2017 with the release of the DVD/CD set “Vehicle of Spirit” in North America on Friday January 6th. Coming off the smashing success of the release throughout Europe in December 2016, Nightwish has thus far achieved the following chart...
by The Pure Rock Shop | Dec 5, 2016 | News, Reviews
Metal icons, Accept, recently made the release of their new live package called “Restless And Live”, public. This package will include the entire show Accept played at Bang Your Head!!! Festival 2015 on Blu-ray/DVD plus two live CDs with different...
by The Pure Rock Shop | Oct 9, 2016 | News, Reviews
Black ‘N Blue were once again a welcome “Sight for Sore Eyes” (and ears!) on the Monsters of Rock Cruise. The ever-smiling Jamie St. James, Young and Pete Holmes make up the original members of the group alongside newer members Shawn Sonnenschein and...
by The Pure Rock Shop | Mar 15, 2005 | Reviews
Finally, a tribute CD that is smokin’ end to end and essentially captures the aura of the band being heralded, in this case the mighty Iron Maiden. Featuring members of Phantom Blue, the Iron Maidens sound dead on to ‘Arry and company throughout most of...
by The Pure Rock Shop | Apr 21, 2004 | Reviews
Being a child of the seventies, Kip Winger says that he considers good musical elements to be diversity, depth, and a musical variety, as well as good lyrics, and describes his solo records as “seventies records with nineties production, meaning its not ten...
by The Pure Rock Shop | Mar 17, 2002 | Reviews
Considering the number of cash-in live releases that have circulated the last few years from melodic hard rock bands that were first signed over a decade ago, it is hard to get excited when another one shows up for review. Fortunately, Lillian Axe is band that still...