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Reviews:
Steve Vai Discusses the Generation Axe Tour
Guitarist Steve Vai caught up with The Pure Rock Shop on 91.7 FM WNJR to discuss life on the road with Nuno Bettencourt, Yngwie Malmsteen, Zakk Wylde and Tobin Abasi for the Generation Axe tour, as well as what we can expect at the supergroup's upcoming performance at...
Bret Michaels – Greensburg, PA – 11-9-2018
Opening with Poison's "Talk Dirty to Me" and ending the evening with the KISS classic "Rock and Roll All Nite," the Bret Michaels Band had the sold-out crowd at Greensburg's Palace Theater on its feet all night. From the young girls on top of the shoulders of their...
Alice Cooper – Pittsburgh, PA – 10-26-2018
What better way to kick off Halloween weekend in Pittsburgh than with an Alice Cooper costume party at Stage AE: smoking pumpkins, Wayne and Garth, and a 12-foot-tall Frankenstein's monster, who could ask for more! Arriving in Pittsburgh the day prior, Alice Cooper's...
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TWO OF A KIND to Release “Rise” this July
Two Of A Kind is a melodic rock band from Holland, whose self-titled debut album was released by Frontiers in 2007. Fred Hendrix, better known as main songwriter and singer for the Melodic Rock masters TERRA NOVA, heads up the band. Back at the turn of the century,...
Japanese guitar hero Nozomu Wakai blasts his way into the world on board his project DESTINIA
Joined by Ronnie Romero (Rainbow, Lords Of Black, CoreLeoni), Marco Mendoza (The Dead Daisies) and Tommy Aldridge (Whitesnake), Japanese Heavy Metal Guitarist Nozomu Wakai is set to release the new album "Metal Souls"under his project Nozomu Wakai's DESTINIA The new...
CLIF MAGNESS Steps Back into the Melodic Rock Scene New Solo Album on Frontiers
In the early '90s, melodic rock had more or less left the mainstream and become an underground affair championed by a group of small indie labels in Europe. But, in 1994 one spectacular release appeared on the scene from a singer/songwriter named Clif Magness,...
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