A regular feature highlighting some of the best album releases each month. I don’t do album “reviews” – this is simply a personal recommendation to check out an album - just a few words about the albums that appeal to me and about the artists releasing them. These will also be albums from which I’ll have been playing tracks on the Friday NI Rocks Shows recently. This month this will include albums from Venus 5, Bloody Heels, Chaos Magic, Drive At Night, Dan Reed Network, Sole Syndicate, Jorn, Devil’s Train, L.A. Cobra, Classless Act and Ousey Mann.
Read more: NI ROCKS Recommends - Album Releases in JUNE 2022
There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those Shows for the month of May – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 130 different artists on the Shows this month. There are also monthly Spotify playlists for the Friday NI Rocks Show featuring most of the tracks from each Show that month.
Playlists for April were published previously and most of those Shows are also available via the On Demand Player – http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3844-ni-rocks-playlists-for-april-2022
There was a new interview with Rival Sons guitarist Scott Holiday on the Friday NI Rocks Show this month and also a repeat of recent interviews with Udo Dirkschneider and John Elefante. The Show also included a special promo feature with Halestorm.
A regular feature highlighting some of the best album releases each month. I don’t do album “reviews” – this is simply a personal recommendation to check out an album - just a few words about the albums that appeal to me and about the artists releasing them. These will also be albums from which I’ll have been playing tracks on the Friday NI Rocks Shows recently. This month there will be albums from Jeff Scott Soto, Halestorm, the Graham Bonnet Band, The Big Deal, Junkyard Drive, Skills, Lonerider and Last Temptation.
Californian rock band Rival Sons tour the UK and Europe during June and July and make a return to the Limelight in Belfast on 1st July. They are supported on the UK and Ireland dates by another Californian band – Dirty Honey. The tour celebrates the tenth anniversary of the release of the Rival Sons album “Pressure & Time” in 2011 and the band will be playing that album in full. I had the opportunity to chat with guitarist Scott Holiday on 25th May and we talked for around 30 minutes about the tour, “Pressure & Time”, a new album and much more. That interview and six tracks by Rival Sons was on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 27th May. An edited version with four tracks is now available from our MixCloud page -
https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/interview-with-scott-holiday-from-rival-sons-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-27th-may-2022-edited/
Read more: NI ROCKS Interview with SCOTT HOLIDAY from RIVAL SONS