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Breakthrough 2009 band Crazy Arm look to up the ante this year with a tour alongside label mate Frank Turner.

And the band release new single Still To Keep on March 22 as a download and limited edition seven incher!

Debut album Born To Ruin was a big underground success in the UK last year and finally gets its mainland Europe release next month. Read on for a full list of tour dates as Crazy Arm stop off with the majestic Mr Turner at a town near you. Read the rest of this entry »

Ok, so he might look like the most miserable bloke ever to populate a sweaty rock club but you’re looking at one of the finest singer songwriters of our generation and his name is Chris. Chris T-T.

This year sees a more mellow (honest) Chris release a new album and hit the road again – and if you like your rock Frank Turner-fied then this bloke will serve up your perfect night on a plate. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the breakthrough bands of 2009 looks set to achieve wider acclaim this year and Fake Problems hope to do so on the back of an 11-date UK headline tour in April.

The hard rocking quartet plan to release the follow-up to It’s Great To Be Alive later this year and are on course to complete the mix before they head back to Britain.

After their landmark support slot on Frank Turner’s autumn 2009 tour, Fake Problems promised they would return to the UK asap. And fans can expect a few shenanigans as they hit intimate clubs up and down the country. Read the rest of this entry »

This week we catch up with prog rock/doom metal hybrid Katatonia and check out the debut EP from Bristol-based indie rock upstarts Fighting Fiction.

There’s another compilation in the shape of the lighter than Kerrang! but very similar NME The Album 2009 plus the deluxe edition of supergroup Chickenfoot’s (pictured) bombastic debut. Something for everyone then? Read the rest of this entry »

@ Newcastle University Basement, October 17 2009

Some of you may only be familiar with the name Frank Turner from the post-hardcore band Million Dead who sadly went their separate ways after four years and two albums in 2005.

The band members pursued their own projects, resulting in the revelation that is Frank Turner as a solo artist and delivering the talented folk/punk singer-songwriter who now has three studio albums and a sold out autumn 2009 UK tour. Read the rest of this entry »

In what has to be one of the most eagerly anticipated double bills of the rock year, former Million Dead frontman Frank Turner embarks on a UK tour with Fake Problems later this week – calling in at 14 towns and cities along the way.

The boys stop off at Newcastle University on Saturday night as part of a bumper rock weekend right here in the North East.

And not for the first time Fake Problems have been particularly busy putting together some of the funniest tour blogs money can’t buy right now. And we’ve got the latest pair of episodes for you right here. Read the rest of this entry »

The rock just keeps on coming and this week we’re delighted to bring you another rushonrock exclusive in the shape of a brand new interview with former Gunner, erstwhile Velvet Revolver and current frontman with punk rock troupe Loaded.

Yes, Duff McKagan’s checking in again ahead of his support slot with hot US band Black Stone Cherry – a bill also featuring one of the bass player’s favourite new bands in the shape of Parlor Mob. We can’t wait. But before then we have Papa Roach, Madina Lake and Heaven’s Basement playing Newcastle’s o2 Academy on Tuesday – plus Wolf at Trillians – and a gig-tastic weekend coming up.

Punk rock troubadour Frank Turner hooks up with Fake Problems to play Newcastle Uni on Saturday night while Bowling For Soup (Academy) go head to head with Richie Kotzen at Trillians on Sunday. And there’s more… Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve been keeping tabs on these exciting young bucks for some time now and it seems electro rockers Spectrum 7 are really starting to get their shit together.

On the back of blinding single Blue Wray the newly expanded five-piece have been busying themselves putting together some seriously hot new material.

And October will see mini album So Silent The Night released digitally – the same month the boys head out on a UK tour. Read the rest of this entry »

Porcupine Tree (pictured) head the list of no fewer than nine bands vying for your hard earned cash this week as rushonrock goes into reviews overdrive.

Check out our verdicts on deluxe Venom and deluxe Million Dead, new metal in the shape of Cinders Fall and Last Stop China Town, reborn rock from INME, remodelled rock by Juliette Lewis (now minus her Licks) psychedelic weirdness from Stardeath And White Dwarfs and a fabulous new record by Frank Turner. Take a deep breath… Read the rest of this entry »

It may be premature to suggest as much but are we on the cusp of a brave new era for rock-orientated singer-songwriters capable of so much more than strumming a guitar and growling heavily into a low slung mic?

Rock and metal, by its very nature, is hardly geared towards solo artists packing nothing more than a semi-acoustic and a tiny amp. There are those who insist rock isn’t rock without a beefed up backline and heavy as shit rhythm section. But there are at least three world class entertainers out there right now who would surely beg to differ. Read the rest of this entry »