After guitarist Jake E. Lee was fired from Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band, Badlands was formed when Lee recruited bassist Greg Chaisson, former Black Sabbath vocalist Ray Gillen and drummer Eric Singer (KISS) to round out the band. They released...
Bobby Caughron
Bobby Caughron is a music journalist and Editor-In-Chief for XS ROCK. He began a life-long fan of hard rock and metal music after hearing KISS as a kid. He is still an avid fan of the 80s metal scene and continues to discover and write about new music in all rock genres today.
Some of the greatest punk bands of all time have come from The United Kingdom. While you would practically have to be living under a rock to not be aware of bands like The Sex Pistols and The Clash,...
Today, the notorious Ugly Kid Joe release the single and video for “That Ain’t Livin’,” the band’s first new music in seven years, with an album to follow. See & hear the video for Ugly Kid Joe‘s “That Ain’t Livin'” HERE at the band’s official YouTube channel....
THE LOST TAPES CD IS AVAILABLE NOW! Get your autographed copy only at thayerstjames.com Jaime And Tommy have this to say about the album: We’ve been friends a long time. We were talking the other day and realized that...
Los Angeles-based rock outfit BUDDERSIDE beg to find the truth of life and its meaning with their new single “The Truth” out today, Friday, May 27, across all digital streaming platforms. Stream/download it at https://onerpm.link/TheTruthBudderside. Vocalist, songwriter and founding member Patrick Stone seeks out these answers in...
A distant mechanical sound is getting louder from afar and heralds the arrival of exciting happenings – throwing their shadows on this fateful day of September 2nd. It’s the day that the metal legend BLIND GUARDIAN will release their eleventh studio...
MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP today unveils a new lyric video for the track “Under Attack.” The video comes in celebration of the release of MSG’s latest full-length, Universal, out TODAY on Atomic Fire Records! Comments SCHENKER, “I’m excited about the release of the new...
June 2021 saw the release of HELLOWEEN’s sensational self-titled studio album. Adored by fans and critics alike, the record catapulted straight to the charts earning the No. 1 position in Germany and Spain, the Top 5 of seven countries, and...
Def Leppard Release a new single and video for “Fire It Up” from the new album Diamond Star Halos which is out today!
Amir Derakh, Matt Thorne & DDR MUSIC GROUP are at it again…and this time with the former lead vocalist of BLACK BAMBI, Steven Ray… It was 1992 in Los Angeles when guitarist Amir Derakh and bassist Matt Thorne were...
