Rock Album And Concert Reviews…
Here’s all of the latest album and live concert reviews for your favorite bands.
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Pig – Hurt People Hurt (Review)
Pig – Hurt People Hurt (Review) Pig releases Hurt People Hurt on May 22nd, 2026. Needless to say, PIG frontman Raymond Watts is a legend in the industrial music scene, and this album is no exception to the great output of material from PIG in the past. If anything, Hurt People Hurt feels like an…
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Sick New World Is A Louder And Darker Celebration Of Heavy Music
The 2026 Edition of Sick New World Is A Louder And Darker Celebration Of Heavy Music. The return of Sick New World on April 25 in Las Vegas felt less like a music festival and more like a declaration that heavy music is still capable of commanding massive cultural attention. After a turbulent year that…
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Crimson Glory – Chasing The Hydra Review
Returning and founding members Ben Jackson, Jeff Lords, and Dana Burnell have returned with new vocalist Travis Wills and new guitarist Mark Borgmeyer to release the band’s first studio album of material in 27 years. So, was it worth the wait? Abso-fuckin’lutely!!! Longtime fans of the band should be ecstatic to hear this great new…
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The Who Bid Farewell to Fenway Faithful as The Song Is Over Tour Resumes In Boston
Alexander SinkAugust 26, 2025Fenway Park, Boston If you are sitting back to read this review, then chances are your life has been influenced by two British Invasions in North America. Two hundred and fifty years ago it was the “Shot Heard ‘Round The World” at Lexington and Concord that kicked of the American Revolution and…
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Judas Priest And Alice Cooper Thrill In London Concert
Judas PriestAlice CooperPhil Campbell and the Bastard Sons 02 Arena, London, EnglandJuly 25 Judas Priest And Alice Cooper Thrill Over 15,000 Fans In London Concert…The 02 Arena was packed out on a Friday night for the hottest rock show in town as Judas Priest and Alice Cooper attempted to lay waste to an arena usually…
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Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning, Complete Show Review
Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning, Complete Show Review… July 5 had finally rolled around, and it was finally happening. Metal and rock fans from around the world had descended not in LA, not in New York, and not in London, but in Birmingham. To be sure, Birmingham is hardly the center of show business,…
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Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter Creates Sonic Boom In Atlanta
Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter Creates Sonic Boom In Atlanta… Pearl Jam Dark Matter 2025 Tour Alexander Sink April 29, 2025 State Farm Arena, Atlanta, GA This year marks thirty-five years since Pearl Jam first formed, when Eddie Vedder first sent his infamous Momma-Son cassette to Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, and it would be hard…
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A Tale of Two Cities with one Addiction
A Tale of Two Cities with one Addiction…Jane’s Addiction that is. Jane’s Addiction plays shows in Jacksonville and Tampa on their 2024 Imminent Redemption Tour with support band Love and Rockets Alexander Sink / Bobby Caughron August 27, 2024 / August 29, 2024 Daily’s Place; Jacksonville, FL Mid-Florida Amphitheater; Tampa, FL The old Dicken’s classic…
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2024 Outlaw Music Festival fires off without Willie Nelson
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss dazzled, Lukas Nelson rocked and Bob Dylan stunned them all by playing three covers never heard live. Alexander Sink June 21, 2024 Ameris Bank Amphitheater; Alpharetta, GA The 2024 installment of the Outlaw Music Festival got off with a bang on June 21st but was noticeably missing its host and…
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Brightside Festival’s SUBLIME Magical Performance
Alexander Sink April 27, 2024 Orlando, FL Like late Sublime founder and frontman Bradley Nowell, I don’t practice Santeria and even if I had a crystal ball; I couldn’t have predicted all the exciting news about the band over the past six months. News that introduced Nowell’s son Jakob as the new frontman, an appearance…
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Inaugural Brightside Festival Rocks Orlando
Alexander Sink April 27, 2024 In a city that is known for it’s world-class entertainment, one would think that there is little room to add to the myriad choices. That was not the case on Saturday when the inaugural Brightside Festival kicked off. From the opening band DONEFOR to headliner Sublime, the entertainment on stage…
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ZZ Top And Lynyrd Skynyrd Rock Historic Night On Capitol Hill
Concert Review April 5, 2024 Tallahassee, FL Legendary Hall of Fame rockers ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd brought their Sharp Dressed / Simple Man tour to Tallahassee on April 5th, much to the delight of a multi-generational crowd at the Donald L. Tucker Center. For North Florida music fans no band represents Duval County and…
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Extreme Live Concert Review
Extreme Live Concert Review…Extreme performed for what appeared to be a sold-out performance for their show at Jannus Live in St. Petersburg Florida on March 8th, 2024. The venue is a really cool and unique place. With its outside courtyard feel, it’s a great place to see a show. The band wasted no time in…
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Seven Of Sevendust Box Set Review
Seven Of Sevendust Box Set Review…Sevendust is one of those bands that I listened to originally from their first album, and then somewhere along the way, about 2 or 3 albums later, I lost track of the band. Shame on me for doing so. The middle and later output by Sevendust is some of their…
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Dokken Returns With One Of The Best Albums Of Their Career
Dokken returns to release their 13th studio album, ‘Heaven Comes Down’, their first new album in 11 years. During that time Don Dokken had a multitude of health issues including arm paralysis after a neck and spine surgery. Many people have been questioning Don’s vocal abilities over the last few years as well. Well, I’m…
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Glenn Hughes Live Concert Review
Glenn Hughes Live Concert Review… Glenn Hughes is known as “The Voice Of Rock”, and with good reason. After stints in bands like Trapeze, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and more recently The Dead Daisies, and of course, an incredible solo career, his versatility, and soulful singing have been on display for years and grant him…
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Ministry “Freaks On Parade” Live Concert Review
Date: August 26th, 2023 Venue: Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheater The Freaks On Parade Tour hit Tampa Florida like a hurricane. The concert featured Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, Filter, and most importantly, to me, Ministry. I’ve never shied away from the fact that Ministry is my favorite rock band of all time. I was one of…
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Filter Live Concert Review
Filter Live Concert Review… Date: August 26th Venue: Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheater, Tampa, FL Filter got the opening spot on the Freaks On Parade tour which also included Ministry, Alice Cooper, and Rob Zombie. Taking the stage around 6:15 pm, just as the sun was starting to set, Richard Patrick along with Bobby Miller on…
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Filter “The Algorithm” Review
Filter “The Algorithm” Review Filter is always creative with each album outing and their latest, “The Algorithm” is no exception to that rule. This album sees Richard Patrick really reaching for the stars with insightful lyrics, poignant topics and some great new songs that push the envelope a little further with some really fresh and…
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Holy Mother – Face This Burn (Review)
Review: I absolutely love it when an album comes across my desk that surprises me with how good it is. As rock a journalist I receive a lot of stuff for review on a daily basis and honestly only about 5-10% of it is actually good, interesting, or worth listening to. Holy Mother’s Face The…
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Def Leppard: The Early Years 79-81′ Box Set (Review)
Artist: Def Leppard Album: The Early Years Box Set 79-81′ Box Set Genre: Hard Rock / Melodic Metal Label: Ume/Virgin Release Date: March 20, 2020 Reviewed by: Bobby Caughron Review: If you were to add Pyromania to this box set, it would be the perfect box set of what I call Def Leppard Mach 1. …
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Dio – The Studio Album Collection: 1996-2004 (Review)
Artist: Dio Album: The Studio Collection 1996-2004 Genre: Metal Label: BMG/Niji Release Date: March 20, 2020 Reviewed by: Bobby Caughron Review: The late great Ronnie James Dio is now a legendary figure in the Heavy Metal genre. His untimely death in 2010 from stomach cancer was a loss that was felt worldwide in the metal…
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Death Angel – Humanicide (Review)
Artist: Death Angel Album: Humanicide Genre: Metal Label: Nuclear Blast Records Release Date: May 31, 2019 Reviewed by: Bobby Caughron Review: If the new Death Angel album Humanicide was your opponent in a boxing match, you’d be pummelled into unconsciousness before you even knew what happened. This an exceptional dark, brutal outing that demands…
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Whitesnake – Flesh & Blood (Review)
Artist: Whitesnake Album: Flesh & Blood Genre: Hard Rock / Classic Metal Label: Frontiers Music Srl. Release Date: May 10, 2019 Review By: Bobby Caughron Review: It seems like it’s been an incredibly long wait for an album of new material from Whitesnake. While their last release 2015’s “The Purple Album” wasn’t bad by any stretch of…
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Stephen Pearcy – View to a Thrill (Review)
Review: Extra! Extra! Read all about it….The latest news headlines should read Stephen Pearcy releases great new Ratt album, on his own! Why? Because the material on Pearcy’s latest release “View To A Thrill” sounds so much like Ratt, that only the names differentiates them. Yeah, I know….A bunch of you are going to jump…
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L.A. Guns : The Missing Peace Album Review
Artist: L.A. Guns Album: The Missing Peace Genre: Hard Rock Label: Frontiers Music srl. Release Date: October 13, 2017 Review by: Bobby Caughron Review: So now that hell has finally frozen over and Tracii Guns and Phil Lewis have officially reunited L.A. Guns, what’s the verdict you ask? It’s a contender for hard rock album…
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