Sometimes the music business moves extremely quickly, and this is one of those times. Aurora, a five piece metal band from Birmingham, were spotted supporting Feed The Rhino last week by In At The Deep End Records. Liking what they say, IATDE wasted absolutely no time in inking Aurora to a record deal. The band…
Promoting their brand new debut full length album, entitled “Topless”, UK rockers Slide On Venus have released the first single and music video from their new album. The video for the single, entitled “Celsius & Fahrenheit”, can be seen below: [youtube id=”Xqawqjeuf3w” width=”600″ height=”350″] “Topless” has been released through the Domino Media Group and can…
A few weeks back we announced that one of the rising stars of US hard rock Halestorm were heading over to the UK in September for a tour (the original announcement is here). Well we’ve now got a bit of an update on that announcement as Halestorm have announced the support bands for the tour….
Every now and then at Rocksins we like to report on the successes of rock or metal artists in the UK album charts and there’s been a fair bit of success the last couple of weeks that we think you should all know about. Last week, Tenacious D’s third studio album The Rize Of The…
One of the UK’s most iconic metal bands of all time, Judas Priest decided that there was nowhere to finish off the current part of their Epitaph World Tour than at home. London’s famous Hammersmith Apollo, the sight of many great shows over the years was a fitting venue for the tour’s conclusion and the…
At tonight’s rather fantastic show at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, towards the end of the evening Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford made the following announcement (the words may not be 100% right but the topic is very interesting): “Let’s just clear up one or two things….The Priest will be back!” This would seem to…
As I sit down to write this, the second part of Rocksins’ Download 2012 preview, it’s currently brilliant sunshine out and temperatures in the mid to high twenties (somewhere around 80 degrees for those of us who only understand farenheight). We should all cross our fingers, get out our lucky charms and pray to whatever…
Following on from the announcement we brought you on Monday of Blink 182’s two new UK shows at the end of July, we can confirm to our readers that the tickets for these shows will be going on sale at 9am tomorrow (Friday 25th of May 2012). Those who haven’t had access to presales wanting…
Last month when Bowling For Soup were in the UK for their third annual acoustic tour, I had the privilege of catching up with their bassist (and singer songwriter in his own right) Erik Chandler for the second time in the flesh before their show at Koko in London. We got to talk about his…
With the tenth anniversary of the UK’s biggest rock & metal gathering of the year, otherwise known as the Download Festival barely two weeks away from kicking off, Rocksins is taking a a three part look at some of the bands who’ll be gracing the various stages this year and offering up our picks of…
