NEWS:

New project by Firehouse singer CJ Snare is called RUBICON CROSS. Snare join forces with Furyon guitarrist Chris Green and the preview for this EP is absolutelly awesome. You can listen the sounbytes here: http://www.rubiconcross.net/

NEWS:

You can download free Steelheart's version of Zeppelin's Black Dog here: http://www.steelheart.com/

BLACK STONE CHERRY - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Released: May 31, 2011)

Here we go with the latest by this band from Edmonton, Kentuky. This guys are one of the best representatives of the new wave of Hard Southern Rock mixing it all with some elements of Grunge. I'm not a fan of Grunge, actually i hate it, but in this band this little taste of Grunge works. The band has a straight raw sound and the raspy voice of Chris Robertson rocks hard though i think he would sound better without this Grunge pronunciation.
The first single is White Trash Millionaire a reivindicative track with catchy chorus that is doing well in Rock Charts. In My Blood is a fantastic cut with reminiscent of Lynyrd Skynyrd while Such A Same is a rockin' song with "dirty" guitars. Won't Let Go is a beautiful mid-tempo with fantastic backing vocals. But the highlights of this album are Stay a powerful ballad with great backing vocals, All I'm Dreaming Of an acoustic cut with an original rythm section, some slide guitars and banjo all mixed with the Grunge voice of Chris and fixing it all perfect while Die For You is an obscure cut with magnificent chorus.
The rest of the album keeps the Rockin' vibe.

In summary, a fantastic Rock album by a band that will rule this genre of Hard Southern Rock in the next years though i keep thinking that they would sound even better leaving appart this Grunge touch.

White Trash Millionaire official video:

Best Tracks (in order of preference):

Die For You
White Trash Millionaire
Stay
All I'm Dreaming Of
In My Blood


Charts:

USA # 29
UK   # 13
SWE # 43
AUT # 31

This album is worth of 4.4 out of 5 ROCKS!!!

LIBERTY N JUSTICE - Chasing A Cure

Here we go with the all-star project LIBERTY N JUSTICE. If you take a look to the cast of musicians involved in this project first thing you could think is that this should be an astonishing album but nothing further from rality. First problem is production, is weak and not dynamic with an empty sound and you will notice this specially listening to the piano sound that is completely "dry". Songs have no interest and the conjunction of both things made some of the great musicians here (Paul Sorthino, Benny Mardones, Kerry Livgreen, Philip Bardowell, Kelly Keeling) not to shine.
We won't talk much about this album but there's a special mention to Black Or White version. I'm not a fan of Michael Jackson but this version is incredibly worse than the original one, this version simply sucks.

In summary, if the future of AOR and Hard Rock depends on this kind of albums... we are lost.

Best songs (in order of preference):

None

This album is worth of 0.5 out of 5 ROCKS!!!

NEWS:

The latest by Progressive mega-stars YES called FLY FROM HERE is ready to pre-order at iTunes.

Release dates:


USA : 07-12-2011
UK   : 07-01-2011