With the countdown to Christmas in full swing what better to buy the rocker in your life than one (or even both) of this week's top releases? Rock Solid sees in... Read More...
Def Leppard's Phil Collen has poured cold water on the view that 2008 has been a vintage year for rock - after taking a swipe at the so-called big guns who blas... Read More...
It's Friday so it must be Self Made Man day and after getting over the disappointment of the new GNR record - yes, he's another one who disagrees with the offic... Read More...
Those rushonrock readers hoping to catch one of rock's rising stars before 2009 will be disappointed to hear that 'Genial' Joe Bonamassa can't make The Sage Gat... Read More...
Here at rushonrock we love to dig deep into our metal closet and pull out a gem from the past - before comparing it to the current output from one of our favour... Read More...
School reunions rarely rock. Or so I’m told. But I head in to my first reunion proper this weekend – some 16 years after kissing some of the best days of my li... Read More...
With nothing more than a KK review in Kerrang! :( , some stern criticism on the message boards and even the brush off from James Hetfield not everybody agrees w... Read More...
@ Newcastle City Hall, November 26 2008
If this was your first taste of Thunder then you could have been forgiven for thinking you'd just walked into an oversi... Read More...
If, like us, you kinda missed out on the great tide of critical accalim which greeted the arrival of US rockers The Gaslight Anthem earlier this year then now c... Read More...
Guns N Roses @ Gateshead International Stadium, June 16 1992
It was a long hot day on Tyneside - and how many of those do we get? But it was also a worrying da... Read More...
Simon's love affair with guitar bands began the day he saw Def Leppard performing Animal for the first time. The founder of Rushonrock has contributed to Classic Rock Magazine, Classic Rock Blues, Classic Rock AOR, HRH Mag and Country Music Magazine and is a familiar face on the North East's rock and metal scene.